Providing customised financing solutions to the film and TV industry
A company created by experienced media professionals who understand that producers just want to produce.
Create A Financing Plan That Works For Your Project
HMRC Tax Rebate
We will lend funds to your production company secured against the favourable UK Government tax credits.
Sales Agreements
We will lend funds to your production company secured against signed sales distribution agreements.
Gap Funding
We will help fund the production costs of your film or TV programme secured against certain rights.
Equity Funding
We provide equity investments into projects secured against rights and a profit participation.
Understanding your strategy
We partner with film-making talent, sales agents, broadcasters, streamers, distributors and accountants to finance TV content and feature films.
By taking a producer-oriented approach, with funding solutions tailored to individual projects, we will be able to drive deals forward quickly, with a streamlined process of financial closing.
How We Work
Project Sourcing and Evaluation
We find projects from a wide range of sources – and at all stages of origination and pre-production.
Project Confirmation and Funding
Project Monitoring and Completion
About Rockwater Media
Rockwater Media is an independent company created in 2024 to provide a bespoke financing service for film and TV producers.
Our Team
Matthew Higdon
Legal
After a Master’s degree in intellectual property law, Matt started his career as a finance lawyer at Clifford Chance. He went on to found M Law LLP in 2003 to focus on media law and from there the firm expanded to encompass technology, sport and film.
He has a particular interest in the structured finance of IP assets and over the past two decades has represented major media organisations, sports organisations (including F1 and football clubs), tech companies and film/TV entities.
William Campbell
Production and Distribution
William has over thirty-five years of experience in multimedia production and distribution. As head of video and TV at Virgin and then joint MD at Lifetime Productions, he commissioned or produced over a hundred lifestyle and sports programmes for video and DVD and was involved in many TV productions.
Since 2005, he has been developing and producing Apps, TV programmes and feature films and his last film, Tango One – based on the best-selling book by Stephen Leather – was distributed worldwide by Universal Pictures. In 2023 he completed the production of ‘Lucky!’ – a multi-million pound, 8-part series on the history of Formula 1 with Bernie Ecclestone, directed by BAFTA-winning Manish Pandey.
Matthew Clarke
Finance
Matthew founded the finance boutique Merlin Partners in 2002 after qualifying as a lawyer at Linklaters and spells as Director at Robert Fleming & Co, JP Morgan Chase and Societe Generale. He’s a specialist in advising and raising finance for start up businesses including Clear Bank, Oxbury Bank and Ophir Energy. He sits on numerous boards and has been chairman of a listed company.
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