Phil Hunt on Clubhouse

Bio

An Innovator and Founder: film, tv, video games, real estate, countercultural diversity LGBTQ+ brand, with venue, events, charity and management arms.

Phil's main business interest in film is Head Gear a film, TV and video games investment company; Bohemia Media, film distribution of under represented (LGBTQ, cultural diversity, disability, female voices); Bankside Films, an international film sales and production company; as well as a number of other corporate investments in the sector.

He has produced or executive produced over 500 feature films, in the past quarter of a century. Head Gear Films is one of the world’s largest financiers of independent film, investing in around 60 projects a year.

Other aspects of Phil's career include being a BAFTA voting member; a mentor to National Film and Television producing students and others; a regular speaker on the industry circuit; a founder of the British Film Festival of Kurdistan, Iraq; and a Patron of The Death Penalty Project.

The Bohemia brand was initially conceived by Phil Hunt and Lucy Fenton in 2013 as a destination for diverse communities, centered around The Apple Tree bar and event space in central London. It provides a safe space for people living outside mainstream culture with its ethos of acceptance, discretion, and tolerance. The venue has also been used by the NFTS for auditions and rehearsals as well as UK film companies for events and panels.

Spring of 2022 sees the opening of private members club Bohemia Club, it will provide a safe space for people living outside mainstream culture with acceptance, discretion, and tolerance.

Prior to the film business, he was an advertising and music photographer and worked with such bands as Big Audio Dynamite. He sporadically dusts off his Hasselblad.