Contact
- Website: http://www.zenfilms.com/
Biography
Zen Films is an independent production and publishing company. Our films are entertaining, thought-provoking and irreverent.
Zen Films was launched in 2000 by Helen and Robert Pratten. In 2003 we made the award-winning film London Voodoo. The film had small theatrical releases in the US and Singapore and is now sold internationally on DVD and available for download in the USA.
In 2006 we shot our second feature film, MindFlesh, based on the novel White Light by Horror Writers Association member William Scheinman.
Also in 2006 we published an anthology called Love and Sacrifice to support the UK release of London Voodoo.
Helen Pratten
Helen has a 1st degree in Economics and an MBA from Manchester Business School. She is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
Helen is Executive Producer at Zen Films: camera and publicity shy, she prefers to raise the finance and manage in the background.
Robert Pratten
Initially an artist and a musician, Robert turned to filmmaking in 2000 when he started at the renowned London Film School.
He started working life at 16 as an apprentice with the Ford Motor Company and was sponsored by Ford to Salford University. After graduating he worked for ICI and leading telecom consultancy, Schema.
