BSE Films, founded by Philip Clayton-Thompson and Donna Pizzi in 1985, is a production company known for creating high-quality content across various genres. From award-winning feature film scripts, documentaries, music videos and TV series, BSE Films is recognized for its innovative storytelling and collaborative approach, bringing compelling narratives to life. In addition, they became one of the most diversely published interior magazine photographers in the United States, traveling the U.S., Canada & Italy, photographing everything from mansions to mobile homes to Jeeps in Alaska with over 5,000 articles and 260+ national magazine covers. BSEFilms has 8 million + YouTube hits. BSE also has a top quality high-end photoshop division, working with some of the biggest window and door companies around the world.
Philip Clayton-Thompson BIO:
From the craggy moors of Britain’s Blackstone Edge comes Philip Clayton-Thompson of Blackstone Edge Studios. Philip began singing as a young Lancashire lad for sixpence in seedy pubs in the North of England. Shared a dressing room with the Beatles at the Queen’s Theatre Blackpool. Joined Her Majesty’s Forces at 15 as Regimental Bugler in the Loyal Regiment. Went down to London. Photo-assisted Lord Snowdon. Worked in Ad Biz in Johannesburg, South Africa. Stowed away on a freighter from Cape Town to Southampton. Became a camera man for Swedish, Danish, ZDF and BBC prior to becoming a documentary filmmaker. Got a rubber bullet up his bum while filming stone throwers in Belfast. Was the only Englishman to escape from East Berlin. Won the 1973 Chicago Film Festival for “A Place Called Ardoyne,” recently digitalized by BFI. Created the most publicized exhibition at the Tate in London. Produced a doco for BBC Channel 4 on LS Lowry. Produced one of the most influential docos in the late 1970s, “Tolmers, Beginning or End?” which was shown on the BBC. PCT worked for many TV stations in UK and Europe before moving to New York. As an immigrant there, he painted the apartments of: Meryl Streep, Henry Kissinger, George Soros, and Donald J. Trump. Moved to Hollywood. Developed situation comedies, and feature films with WGAw writer Donna Pizzi. He continues non-stop to create exciting projects, everything from completing his 1978 doco “Liberty Ships,” to penning the feature film “Mental” and the streaming series “Where Penguins Dance in the Moonlight,” a sprawling tale of love and war in a cold climate.
Donna Pizzi BIO:
Donna Pizzi WGAw trod the boards of Broadway, appeared on screen in Coppola’s “Godfather,” wrote for Soap Operas like “Edge of Night,” and “Days of Our Lives,” sold feature film scripts to CBS International, as well as one about Richard Halliburton for Academy Award winner Julian Krainin. While studying with Uta Hagen, who called her “gifted,” Pizzi co-starred on Broadway with Jack McGowran and David Selby in “Gandhi” directed by Jose Quintero. After graduating Summa Cum Laude from Hunter College with French Honors, she became fluent in French/Italian while working at UNESCO in Paris. Back in the US, she segued to becoming a photojournalist for every Maine newspaper/magazine and creating award-winning short stories prior to becoming a sought-after soap opera writer and WGA member. Upon meeting Philip Clayton-Thompson, she transformed his Iditarod treatment into “White Tracks,” a script later purchased by CBS International. The couple’s green-lighted TV series faltered when Max Headroom star Matt Frewer signed to do “Doctor, Doctor!” moments before! “Pretty Woman” producer Gary Goldstein optioned Pizzi’s script “Black Swan” based on Philip’s life story. Pizzi also spent a decade as a highly regarded UCLA writing teacher. In a twist of fate, when Philip Clayton-Thompson was asked to photograph an LA Interior Designer to the Stars project, Pizzi turned her unknown “gift” for styling and writing into a 30-year career as the most sought after writer/stylist/photographer team in America, working for 150 magazines, with over 260 covers, including Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, Country Living, Décor, Country Home, etc. Presently, the talented team has returned to their love of filmmaking, working on Philip’s documentary “Liberty Ships: And the Women Who Built Them,” as well as feature film script “Mental,” among others.
Donna Pizzi, WGAw
Writer/Producer
Rayne
Executive Producer
Philip Clayton-Thompson, IMDbPro
Award-winning British/American producer/director
has worked for Orion TV, ITC, Lionsgate,
Swedish, Danish, ZDF, Granada, ABC, CBS and BBC.
BSEFilms focuses on dramas and factual entertainment for worldwide media platforms.