The Corner Shop is a global production studio.
Developing and producing original scripted film, TV and documentary film to bring compelling, important and culture defining stories from around the world to screens big and small.
Selected as one of the BBC’s Small Indie Funding Companies, we have won a BAFTA with Channel 4 for scripted series, How To Be A Person, written and directed by Sindha Agha, received an Emmy for best commercial, The Talk, directed by Malik Vitthal, the DOC NYC Grand Jury Prize for short documentary Holy Cowboys, directed by Varun Chopra and executive produced the Oscar-nominated short film Invincible, directed by Vincent Rene-Lortie. In 2025 we produced The Tale of Silyan from the Oscar nominated director of Honeyland Tamara Kotevska. Following premieres at Venice and TIFF the film sold to National Geographic and won best Documentary Feature film from the International Documentary Assosication and Cinema Eye Audience Award.
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Latest Projects↓

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The Tale of Silyan
director
Tamara Kotevska
client
Nat Geo
type
Feature Documentary
synopsis
From the Oscar-nominated director of ‘Honeyland’ this story follows Nikola, a farmer grappling with the harsh realities of new government policies, unable to sell his land or crops. When his family leaves in search of a better life abroad, Nikola takes a job as a landfill attendant, where he encounters the injured white stork Silyan. As he nurses the bird back to health, an unlikely bond forms between man and animal. The result is a deeply moving film that touches on climate change, economic migration, resilience and the quiet power of connection.
title
How To Be A Person - Series Trailer
director
Sindha Agha
client
Channel 4
type
TV Mini Series
synopsis
BAFTA-winning, provocative stories about being a teenager, from sex and sexuality to bodies and abortion, that radically reimagine adolescence as an era of self-acceptance - not self-loathing.
title
Cuts
director
Sarah Lewis
client
Not Yet Released
type
Feature Documentary
synopsis
Coming Soon - Filmed over three decades, ‘Cuts - More Than Just A Haircut,’ delivers a vital portrait of the London hairdressers ‘Cuts’ and it’s significance to culture, music and fashion from the 90’s and tracing personal change in the salon’s family within a context of widespread global and cultural shift.
title
Holy Cowboys
director
Varun Chopra
type
Short Doc
synopsis
A Hindu teen and his friends tread the bizarre world of a 'cow protection’ vigilante group to end consumption of beef, exploring what it means to be a savior of the holy cow in modern day fundamental India.
title
A Dying Tree
director
Vincent René-Lortie
type
Short Film
synopsis
As the day ends for a 45-year-old office worker, he encounters the mysterious gaze of a chimpanzee, sparking a silent exchange that prompts him to make an irreversible decision.
title
Invincible
director
Vincent René-Lortie
type
Short Film
synopsis
Oscar Nominated short film, inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom.
title
A Revolutionary Act
director
Malakai
client
Participant Media
type
Short Documentary
synopsis
About the life and work of Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton, enabling understand the movement’s legacy of love and service to their community. The film promoted the #SaveTheHamptonHouse initiative to Chairman Fred Hampton’s historical childhood home.

Director's Work↓

title
Dreamers
director
Sara Dunlop
client
Channel 4
type
TV Series
synopsis
Dance students navigate complexities of coming-of-age with joy, rawness, and irresistible choreography.
title
Dreamlands
director
Sara Dunlop
type
Short Film
synopsis
Pixie's party-filled, promiscuous existence is turned on its head when a mysterious young boy turns up in her seaside town at the dying end of the summer. Blondie's arrival blows apart her gang's regular routine, as she finds herself struggling with emotions she's never dealt with before.
title
Catch-22
director
Ellen Kuras
client
Hulu
type
TV Series
synopsis
Limited series adaptation of the classic Joseph Heller novel. Follows Captain John Yossarian and airmen in World War II, directed by Ellen Kuras, Grant Heslov and George Clooney.
title
Lee
director
Ellen Kuras
client
Sky
type
TV Series
synopsis
Staring Oscar winning actor Kate Winslet as war correspondent Lee Miller as she travels to the front lines of World War II to embark on a mission to uncover the hidden truths of the Third Reich. But in the wake of betrayal, a reckoning will come over the truths of her own past.
title
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Director of Photography
Ellen Kuras
client
DOP
synopsis
A cult classic shot by Ellen Kuras. When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever.
title
Honeyland
director
Tamara Kotevska
client
Trice Films
type
Feature Documentary
synopsis
The last female bee-hunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood.
title
Ma Mère et Moi
director
Emma Branderhorst
type
Short Film
synopsis
Kees wants to roam far away from home, but her mother doesn’t seem ready to let her go yet. In light of the complexity and ambivalence of their close relationship, a joint road trip develops into an emotional tour de force.
title
Spotless
director
Emma Branderhorst
type
Short Film
synopsis
In the film we follow 15-year-old Ruby. During her period, she doesn’t dare to ask her mother for tampons or sanitary pads because she knows that money is tight. She tries to fix it herself. With the film we tackle the theme of period poverty.
title
Under The Skin
director
Emma Branderhorst
type
Short Film
synopsis
Under the skin tells the story of Keesje, an introverted 15-year-old. She and her friends, Lize and Dunja, are part of a synchronized swimming team. From the outside it all looks like the perfect friendship, but behind the surface hide continuous tensions between the girls. Keesje is constantly afraid of being rejected and longs to maintain her position in the group.
title
Birth Control Your Own Adventure
director
Sindha Agha
client
New York Times
type
Short Film
synopsis
"Birth Control Your Own Adventure" is a 2018 New York Times Op-Doc short film directed by Sindha Agha. The documentary chronicles her personal experience with contraceptive side effects and the challenges of managing endometriosis, highlighting the often difficult "contraceptive roulette" many women face.
title
I Love Dick
director
Joey Soloway
client
Amazon Prime
synopsis
In a Texas town, a woman becomes obsessed with one of her husband's companions and creates an art project inspired by him, a series of letters beginning "Dear Dick:"
title
Transparent Season 1
director
Joey Soloway
client
Amazon Prime
synopsis
An L.A. family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out.

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