Established in 2004 by Peter Foott, Cormac Fox and Michael Doherty, Vico Films is one of Ireland’s leading and most dynamic film and television production companies. The company enjoys strong relationships with financiers, broadcasters and content providers including Screen Ireland, BBC, Netflix, RTÉ, NENT and Lionsgate.
Vico Films’ productions have screened at over one hundred international festivals, winning over thirty awards. The company’s most recent film, Animals, premiered at Sundance in 2019 and was released theatrically in the UK and Ireland August 2019.
Vico’s previous feature film, The Young Offenders, was the Irish box-office sensation of 2016 grossing almost €1.3million at the Irish box office and went on to receive 8 Irish Film & Television Academy award nominations.
Following on from the success of the film, BBC commissioned a TV series of The Young Offenders which debuted in 2018 to wide critical acclaim and became one of the most successful UK & Irish TV series in recent years (recipient of 7 IFTA nominations). Series Three aired Autumn 2020.
Previous feature film projects include History’s Future, a co-production between FamilyAffair Films, Roh Film and Vico Films, which premiered in competition at Rotterdam in 2016. Vico’s first feature film King of the Travellers was produced in 2011 and was released theatrically in the UK & Ireland by Metrodome.
Other recent credits include Cold Courage, an 8x60’ international crime thriller series set in London based on the best-selling Nordic novels by Pekka Hiltunen and directed by Agneta Fagerström Olsson (Wallander). Commissioned by NENT (Viaplay) with international distribution through Lionsgate. Cold Courage aired in Finland at the start of May 2020 and premiered on Britbox in the UK in September 2020.
Vico Films are currently in Prep on the Irish-Scottish co-production Rocket Surgery. Co-producers include Scottish production company Blazing Griffin (Anna and the Apocolypse) and US social media giants Buzzfeed. Principal Photography is scheduled for early 2021.
The Company is also co-producing Frankel with Eclipse Pictures (UK) which is the true story of the champion race-horse and his legendary owner Sir Henry Cecil. Jeremy Irons is attached to play Cecil. Filming is due to commence in 2021.
Vico Films is a recent recipient of Screen Ireland's slate development support. Projects currently in development include In/Visible (writer Fran Harris), No Man’s Land (writer Stuart Drennan) and Sarajevo Calling (writer Jonathan Ellen, and BAFTA-winning, Oscar-nominated director Edward Watts). Vico Films is also in development with RTÉ on best-selling author Paul Howard’s hilarious auto-biographical comedy series The Brack.