Frank Mannion
Producer @Swipe Films
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WORK HISTORY
Producer @Swipe Films
London, GB
Frank Mannion\'s movies include:The crime thriller, Plastic, starring Will Poulter, Alfie Allen & Ed Speleers, released by Paramount PicturesGet Lucky starring Luke Treadaway, released by Universal PicturesThe 3D animated Christmas movie, Saving Santa, starring Martin Freeman, Joan Collins & Tim Curry. Released in over 25 countries Jackboots on Whitehall, starring Ewan McGregor, Rosamund Pike, Tom Wilkinson & Timothy Spall. Released by Sony PicturesGrand Theft Parsons, starring Johnny Knoxville, Michael Shannon & Christina Applegate. Released by MGM in the US & Lionsgate in the UKIn Prison My Whole Life with Colin Firth, Mumia Abu Jamal, Mos Def & Noam Chomsky. Sundance Film FestivalOsama, winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign FilmThe Cat\'s Meow, starring Kirsten Dunst, Joanna Lumley & Eddie Izzard, directed by Oscar winning director, Peter BogdanovichSuspension of Disbelief starring Sebastian Koch & Emilia Fox, written & directed by the Oscar nominated Mike FiggisWater & Sugar: The Carlo Di Palma Story, starring Alec Baldwin, Woody Allen, Bernardo Bertolucci & Ken LoachLove is in the Air starring Ludivine Sagnier & Nicolas BedosYou Will By My Son starring Niels Arestrup. Longest running film in UK cinemas 2013, running for seven months. Nominated for Best Marketing Campaign Screen Awards 2013Exiles, starring Romain Duris & directed by Tony Gatlif, winner of Best Director at the Cannes Film FestivalFrankie, starring Diane KrugerStrings, starring James McAvoy & Catherine McCormackTaking Stock, starring Kelly Brook and Georgia Groome, for NetflixDown to the Bone, starring Vera Farmiga, written and directed by Debra Granik. Winner of two awards at the Sundance Film FestivalThe crime thriller, The Last Diamond, starring Berenice Bejo & Yvan Attal
EDUCATION
Birmingham City University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Trinity College Dublin
LL.B
University of Cambridge
LL.M
SKILLS
ABOUT FRANK MANNION
Frank Mannion is the managing director of the award winning film, TV and commercials production and distribution company, Swipe Films. It is one of the few vertically integrated independent entertainment companies in Europe. He produced the independent hits, Grand Theft Parsons, starring Johnny Knoxville, Michael Shannon and Christina Applegate, and Jackboots on Whitehall with Ewan McGregor and Rosamund Pike. Mannion directed the critically acclaimed Quintessentially British with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench, Sparkling: The Story of Champagne with Stephen Fry and Quintessentially Irish with Pierce Brosnan, Jessie Buckley and Jeremy Irons. Swipe Films has built up a valuable library of over 25 films, winning over 100 awards at major film festivals including Cannes and Sundance and a Golden Globe for the film, Osama. Swipe\'s productions include A Sip of Irish with Rory Guinness, Oz Clarke & Prince Albert of Monaco, Get Lucky, starring Luke Treadaway for Universal Pictures, and the 3D animated Christmas movie, Saving Santa, with Martin Freeman and Joan Collins. Other productions include the true crime thriller, Plastic, with Will Poulter, released by Paramount Pictures and the romantic comedy Taking Stock with Kelly Brook for Netflix.Swipe\'s AI division was launched in September 2025 and it created the world\'s first ever Virtual Reality Trailer App for the independent film Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge, produced to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Nobel Prize winner.Mannion is a law graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Trinity Hall Cambridge. He holds a PhD from Birmingham City University. He has written for The Sunday Times, The Times, The Daily Mail, City AM and Conde Nast Traveller. His new book, The Dependent Film Distributor, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan later this year.
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