TIS Films was founded by Alexander Churchyard and Michael Holiday who both grew up in Southend on Sea and loved film from an early age. They met in college where they started making short films together. They both went on to gain a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Film Production Technology. TIS was originally setup when Alex and Mike went into production on I Scream on the Beach!
We have many frequent collaborators, but members of our core team now include Max Davenport, Hannah Paterson, Martin W. Payne, Ian Chapman, Philip Rogers and Singh Lall.
Our films
We've had enormous success with our first feature 'I SCREAM ON THE BEACH!' which screened at various festivals across 2020 and 2021 while also receiving a number of awards. In 2021 we also put out a short film titled 'The Allotment' which was shot on a mobile phone in half a day, it has since played at a number of festivals and picked up 'Best Mobile Horror' at the Romford Horror Film Festival. We are currently in post production our second feature titled 'Mosaic' and have been working on 'Video Shop Tales of Terror' which is due out in 2023.
