Founded by director Tom Sands in 2009, Substantial Films is a production company that employs strong narratives and powerful storytelling to deliver films with substance. At its heart is a fathe...
Founded by director Tom Sands in 2009, Substantial Films is a production company that employs strong narratives and powerful storytelling to deliver films with substance. At its heart is a father/son team – Mick Sands is an award-winning scriptwriter and copywriter with 30 years experience, and Tom Sands is a highly-experienced young film director with four features under his belt. In 2015, we completed our first feature film Backtrack, a psychological horror about past-life regression starring Julian Glover. The film has been distributed in nine territories and is currently on Netflix UK. In 2016, we completed our next feature film - a psychological thriller about mind control called The Holly Kane Experiment. This was released in North America and Japan in 2017 and will be released in the UK and other European territories in early 2018.  In 2017, we completed a comedy-drama called Three Acts, about an actor struggling with dissociative identity disorder. And in early 2018, we completed False Witness, a US-set psychological thriller about a traumatised young woman who witnesses the murder of an NYPD detective. www.substantialfilms.co.uk