Founded by Melanie Dicks, Jess Hines, Lia Walton, and former Secretary of State John Kerry, Fingerprint Content was created with a clear and urgent mission: to spark change in the way we portray social issues on the screen. We empower the world's most exciting storytellers to bring their deeply-held passions to life; exploring inequality, race and gender, the power of big business, and, most particularly, climate change, where we encounter all these issues. By engaging audiences with the compelling stories of this disruptive time, we aim to inspire, organise and focus the conversation across film, TV and digital platforms.
We are committed to ERA 50:50 and the equal representation of women, both in front of, and behind the lens.
We collaborate with bespoke A-list teams of bold creatives, communicators and strategists, unafraid to make complex subjects understandable.
Our diverse slate of scripted and non-scripted content spans feature films and documentaries, returning high-end television drama and cutting-edge digital projects.
United by a strong authorial voice and distinctive point of view, the slate includes a feature film adaptation of a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Barbara Kingsolver; a female-led, heightened genre feature set on Corfu; an eco-crime thriller written by Piyush Gupta; and an ambitious anthology series on the architects of denialism.
A young widow travels back to a Greek island to spread her husband's ashes; upon learning the true nature of what may have claimed his life, she is tempted by a dark choice that could bring him back.
Feature Film
Writer: Emily Carlton
Director: Daphne Schmon
Note: The Eye will be the first eco friendly production to be filmed in Greece using the environmental education platform Green Screen. The producers aim to make the production carbon neutral, the impacts they cannot reduce will be offset using UN Redd approved programmes through Greenshoot.
A sensuous, female-driven adaptation of Joanna Hines' award-winning trilogy of historical novels, exploring sexuality and agency in 17th century Cornwall.
8 x 60 Returning Series
A sensuous, female-driven adaptation of Joanna Hines' award-winning trilogy of historical novels, exploring sexuality and agency in 17th century Cornwall.
Told through a modern lens, the series is a timely and expansive examination of national division, sexual repression, social inequality and female self-expression across two thrilling timelines.
Silent Spring birthed a revolution and changed our understanding of how public and environmental health are interdependent; but, our iconic hero's storytelling of injustice of pollution, poverty, race and money made her a dangerous woman to industrial power, even if it meant killing natural life on earth.
In early development
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In development
A revolutionary, high-octane, eco-crime thriller, set in the heart of Delhi.
Interactive short format
6 x 30
A revolutionary, high-octane, eco-crime thriller, set in the heart of Delhi.Written by Piyush Gupta from an original idea by Jess Hines
Raj at War blends the gritty action of Band of Brothers with the romance and historical sweep of The English Patient.
Written by Mesh Flinders and Sunayana Kumari
From an original idea by Cary Woods and Mesh Flinders
India produced the largest volunteer army in world history: over 2 million men. But, until now, there has never been a comprehensive account of India's turbulent home front and the nexus between warfare and India's society.
A documentary film on borderline personality disorder (BPD), seen through the eyes of new director Anna McGrane.
A documentary film on borderline personality disorder (BPD), seen through the eyes of new director Anna McGrane, a young woman with the condition that brings extraordinary people together through her voice, direction and use of the natural world to create a unique film.
Defenders of Planet Earth (DOPE) is a Fingerprint Content Original.
Defenders of Planet Earth (DOPE) is a Fingerprint Content Original. A fun, engaging show that merges popular culture with everyday heroic climate change solutions. We aim to entertain and educate, empower and inspire the nation to find a way to take action in their local environment.
Our team benefits from decades of leadership and expertise in our respective fields, from the creative economy to constructive diplomacy.
From the very first Earth Day of the modern environmental movement to the Paris Climate Accord; from the global adoption of sustainable filming production practices to ground-breaking cultural impact campaigns, we have learned from hard-earned experience how to tell stories that create impact and inspire change.
With our partners at Greenshoot, we will work to reduce our environmental impact from script to screen. Through our networks and partners in Europe, India and the United States, we implement certified sustainability practices that guarantee every production is green.
Driven to create content that both entertains and educates, each production will also deliver legacy programmes within the communities we film, creating long term positive impact.
Jess Hines is a writer–producer working across the UK, US and India. As Founder and Producer of Fingerprint Content, she develops film and TV projects that sit in the useful gap where gripping, mainstream stories double as lived arguments about climate, power, culture and care.
Her work spans scripted, documentary and hybrid forms. Recent and current projects include The Eye, Defenders of Planet Earth (DOPE) with The Museum for the United Nations, UN Live, and The Men Who Sold the World by James Graham, alongside a feature adaptation of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior created in close collaboration with the author. Beyond the slate, Jess has worked with organisations including the Wellcome Trust, UNSG, Climate Spring and Purpose on narrative strategy, cultural campaigning, impact production, and new ways to back storytellers working on difficult ground.
With more than three decades in and around three film industries, she moves easily between mainstream and independent spaces, and between commissioners, journalists, writers, politicians, campaigners, funders, campaigners, creatives, academics, activists, and artists. Her practice is guided by a Protocol of Care, built to protect people, the more than human and places while still delivering bold, popular work.
Lia has worked with contemporary artists and musicians, iconic photographers, legendary filmmakers and ancient archives, all over the world. She has recently collaborated with John Kerry and other environmental activists in the formation of a groundbreaking NGO and the acquisition of literary properties that bring life to the urgency of our modern environmental challenge.
Over the last decade, Lia produced environmental film, photography, and IMAX projects in Africa, India and New York. She has produced advocacy projects about food/land justice and biodiversity, and major projects with veteran director, George Butler at White Mountain Films, about the existential threats to the world's last remaining Sundarbans Tigers. She co-founded Cloverleaf Pictures in New York and London, producing a slate of non-fiction features.
Claire Whalley is a boundary-crossing director and executive producer who turns brave ideas into commissions across scripted, comedy, and factual. After early years in Japan (NHK and international co-productions), she co-founded What Larks with Jo Brand and went on to deliver acclaimed work from Channel 4 & Lionsgate’s Damned to Sky’s The Reluctant Landlord, alongside award-winning documentaries including the BAFTA/RTS-winning The Choir: Boys Don’t Sing, BBC Arena’s Comedy Queen: The Caroline Aherne Story, and landmark arts and history films such as Nature & Us, Virago: Changing the World a Page at a Time, and Queen Victoria: In Her Own Words. Her producing practice is people-first and craft-led, with a long-standing commitment to inclusion through collaborations with Access All Areas (executive producing the company’s first TV drama in development) and mentoring at NFTS and Four Corners. At Fingerprint Content, Claire brings deep commissioner relationships, a sharp sense of where culture is headed, and three decades of hands-on delivery—shaping projects that marry popular reach with moral clarity.
Shahnaab is an independent producer with three decades of experience across Indian studio, independent and international productions. His track record spans more than eighteen released titles, including work on Dhoom, Socha Na Tha, Shoonya, Dubai Return, The Lunchbox, Ugly, Monsoon Shootout, Omerta, Bhoga Khirikee (Broken Window) and The Eye.
He has previously held senior roles with major Indian production and broadcast companies, working across commissioning, development and delivery, and has produced large-scale live and televised events across the region.
At Fingerprint Content, Shahnaab was Executive Producer on The Eye and currently produces Defenders of Planet Earth (DOPE) – India, bringing his deep on-the-ground knowledge, access to stories, and practical production experience to a fast-moving, multi-location series.
John signed up to promote Fingerprint's vision of storytelling and storytellers. He is a believer in the unprecedented power of new platforms to impact culture and inspire citizen activism and social progress.
John brings decades of experience and lessons learned from varied roles: as an activist leading a nationwide grassroots campaign of veterans to end a war, as a policy-maker at the highest levels of Capitol Hill, as a major political party’s nominee for president, and as the United States’ top diplomat. His most recent service as President Obama’s Secretary of State — and later as President Biden’s Special Envoy for Climate — reaffirmed his abiding belief that in a disaggregated Information Age, communicating complex issues through culture and stories is not just one of the most potent ways to mobilise movements and propel progress — it is almost certainly the most effective.
Our name is a reflection of the fact that today, scientists painstakingly track the tiniest, most incremental changes on our planet and their measurements literally produce "fingerprints" which explain the cause of change, including that which comes from human activity. Film—indeed all art—is a reflection of the never ending struggle to understand the beauty, mystery and contradictions of life itself. It is the fingerprints of that journey that we will explore in the stories we will bring to the screen, hopefully impacting culture, inspiring and motivating engagement based on truth and common sense.
This is a new time and we will set out to help define and describe it. Globally, long-standing failures and grievances have been exposed to new scrutiny. The human condition is challenged in new and old ways, affecting every aspect of life and at an unprecedented pace. Age-old and new rivalries flourish. Disease and natural disaster, technology and progress and lack thereof challenge every aspect of life as we knew it. It is up to the storyteller to help shed light on and make sense of this often chaotic, uncertain and contested moment in history.
We founded Fingerprint Content with a motivating mission: to entertain for certain, but to do so through the most important stories of this turbulent time.
In a world where truth is battered and buffered on all sides and in an age where facts are under assault, our work is founded on a first principle: authenticity matters most. We won't reinvent reality; we will reveal it.
We won't tell our audiences what to believe or who to listen to; we will let the stories tell themselves through compelling characters who connect with our collective conscience.
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