INVEST IN STORIES THAT MATTER
House of Tales is seeking funding partners for a slate of original, issue-based short films and feature projects.
We have a proven track record of delivery, a pipeline of competition-validated scripts, and a filmmaker with the business experience to make every pound of investment count.
Why Fund Issue-Based Drama?
Issue-based drama is not a niche. It is the most commercially successful and culturally enduring genre in contemporary British film and television.
The projects that win BAFTAs, screen at BIFA, attract international co-production partners and build lasting audiences are those that have something real to say.
House of Tales makes exactly this kind of work, with craft, rigour and an authentic perspective that comes from lived experience.
Our Track Record
We don't ask for investment based on potential alone. We have a track record.
Changing Tides
Written, directed and produced by Kathryn Georghiou.
8 film festivals. 4 awards including Best Drama and three Best First-Time Filmmaker Awards.
Official selection: Lytham IFF, Greenwich Film Festival, Wolverhampton Film Festival, Manchester LiftOff, and more.
Prefer To Sip Tea
Written by and starring Kathryn Georghiou. Co-directed.
11 film festivals. 6 awards including six Best Actress Awards.
Addressing sexual violence — a subject that matters and an audience that responded.
Both films completed on time, on budget, and distributed independently through the festival circuit.
In Development
1
Sweet (Short Film)
Writer, Director - Kathryn Georghiou
Producer - Lydia Kay
Slick Film Fund Semi-Finalist
A widow bakes her estranged son his favourite cake to win him back. When he arrives alone, she fears the worst and a desperate act of protection ends in tragedy, witnessed through a letterbox by a four-year-old girl.
2
John Boy (Short Film)
Story - John Taylor
Screenplay, Director, Lead Actress - Kathryn Georghiou
Producer - Lydia Kay
John is nine years old. Today he scored a hat-trick, imagined the scouts watching and his name on the front pages of the papers. Then he came home. In the bath, he heard everything; the shouting, the screaming, the violence. And then found his mum on the floor, bleeding.
3
Forgotten (working title) (Feature Documentary)
Writer, Director - Kathryn Georghiou
Producer - Charlotte Ginsborg
They didn't have the addiction. They just lived inside it. Forgotten follows a group of 'affected others' — the partners, children and siblings left behind — as they use applied theatre and storytelling to confront their past, reclaim their identities, and dare to imagine a future that belongs to them.
4
Dance (Short Film)
Writer - Kathryn Georghiou
Longlisted for the Unsolicited Scripts Short Film Fund
Sarah has given her whole life to ballet. Now in her mid-thirties, the twilight of a dancer's career, she finally lands the role she has always dreamed of. Then she discovers she is pregnant. Then, on opening night, she begins to miscarry. She goes on stage anyway.
Why Kathryn?
Funding a film is funding a person as much as a project.
Kathryn Georghiou is a classically trained actor (Mountview, full scholarship), an MA Creative Writing graduate (with Distinction), and a filmmaker with a proven delivery record.
She is also a former Director at London Business School, a background that is exceptionally rare among emerging filmmakers. She understands budgets, stakeholder management, and project delivery. She will not waste your investment.
She is also a festival judge (Lytham International Film Festival; Grand Jury, Film Festival Emeak), a signal that her peers in the industry trust her critical eye.
You are backing someone at the beginning of a significant career.
Get in Touch
If you are a film financier, fund, executive producer, or angel investor with an interest in issue-based drama, we would welcome a conversation.
For formal funding applications:
Please contact: hello@thisishouseoftales.com with the subject line 'Funding Enquiry'
For investor conversations:
Please contact: hello@thisishouseoftales.com with the subject line 'Investment Enquiry'