Phil Hunt is the founder and MD of both Bankside Films, an international film sales and distribution company and Head Gear Films, a film, TV and video games investment company. Phil produces and executive produces, and in the past decade has invested in over 200 feature films. Head Gear Films is now one of the world’s largest financiers of independent film, investing in around 60 projects a year. Other aspects to his career include being a BAFTA voting member; mentor to National Film and Television producing students and others; regular speaker on the industry circuit; founder of the British Film Festival of Kurdistan, Iraq; and a Patron of The Death Penalty Project. Phil began producing feature films in the mid 90’s with micro budgets that occasionally found more than a micro audience…. Prior to the film business, was an advertising and music photographer including working with bands such as Big Audio Dynamite. He sporadically still dusts off his Hasselblad. Phil began investing in central London real estate in the early 90’s and has recently purchased a freehold pub which will transform into Bohemia – the world’s first private members club for the burgeoning alternative LGBTQI+ community in London. It will provide a safe space for people living outside mainstream culture with acceptance, discretion, and tolerance.