Answer Print Pictures · Glasgow & Lisbon · Est. 2019
In production
Films that stay in the room
An independent production company making features, shorts and documentaries with small crews, long preparation and natural light. Seven films so far. Two shooting now.
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Official selection
Berlinale Forum 2025
Official selection
CPH:DOX 2024
Official selection
Locarno · Pardi di domani 2023
Official selection
DOK Leipzig 2024
Official selection
Göteborg 2025
Official selection
Sheffield DocFest 2024
Official selection
Clermont-Ferrand 2024
Official selection
Sevilla · Best Cinematography 2025
R2 — How we work
We make few films, and we make them slowly,
with people we would cross a country for.
Shot where they happen, lit by what is already there,
cut until they follow you home.
Inês Amaral & Tomás Brandt, founders
Call sheet · Lengths
In production
Day 18 of 31
Call 06:30 · Piscina Municipal do Areeiro, Lisbon · Sunrise 07:41 · Scenes 41–44
R4 — Now shooting
The production diary
Day 03 · 21 Oct
The water is 19 degrees.
Our lead swims 4 km before call time. The crew does not. We bought a second wetsuit for the focus puller.
Day 07 · 25 Oct
Rain stops play.
We rewrote scene 12 to happen inside the changing rooms. It is better now, which is annoying.
Day 12 · 30 Oct
The lifeguard is real.
Rui has worked this pool for 31 years. He is in the film now, and he is very good.
Day 18 · 5 Nov
Take six.
Scene 43, page 43. The line we rewrote eleven times works on the sixth take. Nobody speaks for a while.
Since 2019, by the numbers
14
films made
features, shorts, a series
41
festival selections
on four continents
9
countries filmed in
from Shetland to Faro
19
people, average crew
small by choice
2
2019
1
2020
4
2021
5
2022
7
2023
10
2024
12
2025
R6 — Next on the slate
Shooting now, and what comes after.
R7 — What they wrote
Reviews, briefly
“A film that trusts silence more than most films trust dialogue.”
The Northern Screen
The Long Exposure
“Salt Road is the best road movie with no road left in it.”
Docs Weekly
Salt Road
“Eighteen minutes that feel like a whole life told over breakfast.”
Reel Quarterly
Morning, Kitchen
“Lit almost entirely by a lighthouse, and somehow never dark.”
Frame & Field
The Long Exposure
“A company worth following, film by film.”
Cinema Ledger
On Answer Print Pictures
R8 — Journal
Notes from the cutting room
Craft
Shooting by the light that was already there
How Dele lit The Long Exposure with a lighthouse beam, two lamps and a lot of waiting.
Production
Day 18 of 31: the diary from the pool
Notes from the Lengths shoot in Lisbon: chlorine, cold mornings and a lead actor who swims 4 km before call time.
Industry
What a sales agent actually wants from your site
Logline, status, runtime, a still that works at thumbnail size, and a name with an email. In that order.
R9 — Questions
For festivals, financiers and crew
Anything else goes to hello@answerprint.film. A person answers, usually within two working days.
Can I request a screener?
Yes. Festivals, sales agents, broadcasters and press can request a private link from the press page. We reply with a watermarked screener within two working days.
Do you take unsolicited scripts?
Do you co-produce?
How do I get on an Answer Print crew list?
Where are you based?
The house lights are down
Send us the film you can’t stop thinking about
A logline, a page and a link. We read everything that comes in, and we answer.