Stories with something to say
Fine Line is an award-winning production company working across theatre and film, driven by a desire to explore the most effective and potent ways to share stories – producing bold and diverse work that makes you think and makes you feel. We strive to shine a light on perspectives that have been previously neglected, to engage audiences, and leave them changed.
Fine Line produced the BFI NETWORK funded and BAFTA Rocliffe winning short film LIVERPOOL FERRY, staring Derry Girls Saoirse-Monica Jackson. It screened at Foyle Film Festival, Norwich Film Festival, Leeds International Film Festival, was semi-finalist at Rhode Island Film Festival, and is currently available online with Omeleto. Fine Line’s first short film TOUCH by Nimer Rashed, won the prestigious Virgin Media Shorts Competition 2013 and screened at Cannes Short Film Corner, London Short Film Festival, Bradford International Film Festival, Suikerzoetfilmfestival (Rotterdam), FEC Festival, and Catalonia.Other short films include CYGNUS (Cannes Short Film Corner), HARD LIGHT (for LFS), and NUMBER ONE FAN (Dir. Nimer Rashed).
As Associate Producer; GOODBYE PYTHON, supported by BFI NETWORK – the first sci-fi film by a transgender director ever made in the UK.
Fine Line has a number of film projects in development, including feature film MOVING IN, with Exec Producer Sara Sehdev (Exec Producer for BIFA winning BOILING POINT), and the short film THE WOLF AT THE DOOR in association with Doodledo.
Fine Line’s theatre work focuses predominantly on new writing. Credits include: OFFIE winner and 3 times nominated DISTANCE (Park Theatre); MOORMAID (Arcola Theatre); OUT OF THE CAGE (Park Theatre); EVEN STILLNESS BREATHES SOFTLY AGAINST A BRICK WALL (Soho Theatre); EXECUTION OF JUSTICE (Southwark Playhouse); and WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE MY MOTHER? (Trafalgar Studios). Fine Line has also General Managed a number of theatre productions including the cross-arts dance-theatre-orchestra piece THE EXPECTED (Wiltons Music Hall) for Rough Fiction.
Fine Line is run by actor and producer Lindsay Fraser. Lindsay trained at East 15 Acting School and, alongside acting, has produced theatre on and off London’s West-End, at the Edinburgh Festival, on tour in the UK and internationally. Lindsay’s producing career started with the multi-award-winning theatre company Bear Trap (now Holm) where she produced the multi-award-winning BOUND (Edinburgh Fringe, Adelaide Fringe, Southwark Playhouse, UK National Tour) which won a host of awards including a Fringe First; and ENDURING SONG (Southwark Playhouse).
Lindsay received the Society of London Theatre’s Stage One New Producers Bursary in 2014, 2015 and 2017, was part of BFI NETWORK South East’s Producers Programme 2020, and BFI ‘Connect and Collab’ 2021 & 2022.
Fine Line’s work has been regularly funded by Arts Council England, BFI NETWORK, Backstage Trust, The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Stage One, Unity Theatre Trust, and supported by ETT Forge.