sales and marketing consultancy

Salt sells and helps finance films by new and established filmmakers from Sundance Film Festival 2008 hit Donkey Punch (sold to Magnolia) to Fernando Meirelles' City of Men (acquired by Miramax). Other projects include Vice Films' White Lightnin' , the story of cult figure Jesco White, the dancing outlaw; documentary Big River Man , Martin Strel's insane attempt to be the first man to swim the Amazon; and Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee starring Robin Wright Penn, Keanu Reeves and Maria Bello, produced by Elevation Filmworks' Lemore Syvan and Plan B's Dede Gardner, currently in post-production.

The company is headed up by sales veteran Samantha Horley who was formerly at Myriad and Summit. James Norrie recently joined Salt as its new head of international; James was previously head of sales at Capitol Films and before that Icon.

For more information on The Salt Company, visit their website.

Full Time Hobby is a new music company that came into being January 2005. Driven by a passion for music the company encompasses Full Time Hobby (the label), populated by indie rock, singer songwriters, leftfield electronica and all points in between joined by the common thread of quality music. Signings to Full Time Hobby include recent additions Tunng and Portland, Oregon's Viva Voce.

The Hassle imprint was set up within Full Time Hobby to cover the heavier end of the spectrum - still only dealing in the real quality music, Hassle covers punk, heavy rock, emo etc.. Artists on Hassle include new UK signings The Zico Chain and Juliette & The Licks.

For more information on either label check the website.

IFC's artistically driven music company and record label is run by James Lavelle of UNKLE fame. As a DJ, James plays regularly at London's Fabric, and in other clubs around the world. He has released numerous successful records on his own or as UNKLE. James founded and ran the cutting edge Mo'Wax record label and has composed music for films including the Academy Award (Oscar) nominated ‘Sexy Beast’.

For more information on Surrender All please visit the website.