Based in the East End of London Cannon and Morley Productions (CAMP) is run by Writer/Director Carol Morley and Producer Cairo Cannon. They have made award winning shorts, documentaries and features that have played in cinemas, on TV, in galleries and at festivals world wide. Films include Typist Artist Pirate King, Out of Blue, The Falling, Dreams of a Life, Edge, and The Alcohol Years.

Writer/Director – Carol Morley

Carol Morley left school at sixteen and after a myriad of jobs, went back to full time education when she was twenty-four. She is a BAFTA nominated writer and director who graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Fine Art Film and Video from Central St Martins College of Art.

Her feature films include the Hulu and BBC Film New Orleans set noir Out of Blue, starring Patricia Clarkson, James Caan, Jacki Weaver, Toby Jones and Jonathan Majors; The Falling, an exploration of a mysterious outbreak of fainting in a 1969 girls’ school, starring Florence Pugh and Morfydd Clark in their first acting roles alongside Maisie Williams, Maxine Peake and Greta Scaachi; Dreams of a Life, which stars Zawe Ashton and goes behind the anonymous newspaper headline about Joyce Vincent who lay dead in her flat for three years; and the Grierson Award winning The Alcohol Years, revisiting the people that populated Morley’s teenage life on the Manchester music scene.

Her autobiographical novel 7 Miles Out, set in the North West of England where she grew up, has been optioned for development by Michael Winterbottom’s company Revolution, with Morley at the writing and directing helm. She also writes and broadcasts on directors and film, including an essay for a book accompanying the Criterion Essential Fellini box set release, and a Radio 3 documentary Carol and Muriel, about Britain’s most prolific woman director Muriel Box. Her latest BFI backed feature film Typist Artist Pirate King emerged from her intensive research during a Screenwriting Fellowship at the Wellcome Institute in London. The film explores the real life of artist Audrey Amiss, setting her life in motion on a road trip with her psychiatric nurse: it stars Monica Dolan, Kelly Macdonald and Gina McKee. Jane Campion is executive producer.

Carol Morley is represented in the UK by Matthew Bates of Sayle Screen.

Producer – Cairo Cannon

Cairo Cannon runs Cannon and Morley Productions (CAMP) with Writer/Director Carol Morley. She produced Typist Artist Pirate King about unknown artist Audrey Amiss starring Monica Dolan, Kelly Macdonald and Gina McKee. World Premiere: Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival as part of the Critics’ Picks Competition; UK Premiere: Glasgow Film Festival, International Women’s Day Gala.

With Luc Roeg and Independent she produced neo-noir Out of Blue starring Patricia Clarkson, James Caan, Jacki Weaver, Toby Jones and Jonathan Majors and The Falling (mass psychogenic illness at a girls’ school) featuring Maisie Williams, Maxine Peake and introducing Florence Pugh.

Both films had their UK Premiere at the BFI London Film Festival. Out of Blue was selected for Toronto Film Festival and distributed by PictureHouse and IFC.  Selected festivals for The Falling (Blue Finch, Cinedigm. Vendetta) include: Beijing, Karlovy Vary, Munich, Heksinski, Dublin and Glasgow.

Previous film Dreams of a Life with Zawe Ashton, produced with James Mitchell premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and SXSW in the USA and is distributed by Dogwoof and Strand Releasing.

With Genesis Entertainment, Cannon produced Morley’s micro budget feature film Edge (Maxine Peake, Paul Hilton, Marjorie Yates, Joe Dempsie) which also premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and was an official selection for the Shanghai International Film Festival.

After making various short films together, Cannon produced Morley’s The Alcohol Years, winner at Melbourne International Film Festival and of the Grierson Award.