Executives

Justin Marciano - CEO Revolver Entertainment

Justin Marciano founded distributor Revolver Entertainment in 1997. Since then the company has won no less than 18 major awards from the entertainment industry. In the last 2 years alone Revolver’s independent spirit and flair has been awarded with 5 of the industries top awards for marketing excellence including a clean sweep at the 2012 British Video Association Awards.

The company is renowned for it’s extensive use of Social Media – and won the Grand Prix and Best Intergrated Campaign at the 2011 Social Buzz Awards for it’s groundbreaking work on Anuvahood.

Revolver continues to expand its influence across UK and US distribution sectors as well as moving into production with its new division Gunslinger, run by Nick Taussig. The wholly owned company makes Revolver the only independent UK distributor with turn-key production capability. In just 30 months Gunslinger has produced five theatrical feature films; Shank, Anuvahood, SKET, iLL Manors and Offender.

Revolver’s recent releases include; Julia Leigh’s haunting Sleeping Beauty, Brazilian box office smash Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within, Kings of Leon’s Talihina Sky, Banksy’s extraordinary documentary Exit Through The Gift Shop and Justin Kurzel’s acclaimed debut Snowtown.

Forthcoming releases include: Berlin Film Festival smash Iron Sky, Ill Manors written and directed by music sensation Plan B. Other titles on the company’s upcoming roster include Stone Roses inspired Spike Island, Josh Radnor’s Liberal Arts, Sundance sensation The Imposter and Nadine Lakabi’s Where Do We Go Now.

Nick Taussig - Director Of Production

Nick Taussig is an award-winning producer, acclaimed novelist and serves as Deputy MD at Revolver Entertainment. In 2009, Nick took on the additional role of building Gunslinger into a viable production company.

He is currently producing the youth crime film, Offender. His recent credits include producer of the dystopian thriller Shank, the comedy Anuvahood (written and directed by BAFTA Winner Adam Deacon), the girl gang thriller SKET (Official Selection at the 55th BFI London Film Festival with two award nominations), and executive producer of Plan B’s debut feature ill Manors and the BAFTA-nominated documentary film Taking Liberties.

His second novel, Don Don, is currently being adapted for the screen by the team behind Bronson (Grand Jury Prize Nomination Sundance 2009).

Paul Van Carter - Producer

Paul Van Carter assisted the producer of Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson in 2008, and went on to write and produce Gunslinger’s first feature, Shank, in 2009, which has now reached platinum sales. In 2010, with Nick Taussig, he produced the comedy Anuvahood for Adam Deacon on a budget of $1M, the film went on to gross over $5M, win Deacon a BAFTA, and break all box office records for distributor Revolver.

In 2011 Paul wrote the screenplay for boxing biopic The Guv’nor based on the incredible story of Lenny MacLean – the deadliest bare-knuckle fighter the world has ever seen. Martin Askew is co-writing and Jamie McLean (Lenny’s grandson) is also producing. Late last year Paul published his first novel, Oil On Canvas, a history of twentieth century art. Summer 2012 sees the release of Offender, a prison thriller again produced alongside Taussig, sold by IM Global, which Paul also scripted.

In development is the Nic Small penned Bootneck, a military drama, and Electric, a crime saga starring musician English Frank.

Alex Georgiou – Production Executive

Alex Georgiou has served as a publicist for Revolver Entertainment since 2008. In that time he has managed over 30 release campaigns for the company including Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty, Justin Kurzel's Snowtown and Adam Deacon's Anuvahood to name but a few.

In 2011 he headed Revolver's PR department and at the beginning of 2012 moved across to Gunslinger Films to start his new role of Production Executive. He is credited as an Associate Producer on both Anuvahood (2011) and Offender (2012).