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Templeheart Films is a British independent film investment and production company.
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Templeheart Films is a British independent film investment and production company.
The company was founded in 2008 by Lyndon Baldock. Since its formation, Templeheart has been involved in the finance, development and production of over thirty feature films and in the British Film Institute's Statistical Yearbook (2015) was ranked eighth highest in the list of UK production companies. [1] The company has a range of UK and US productions and aims to invest in emerging talent, while encouraging financiers to join the film industry.
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