About

Kayfabe Films Ltd. is a production company based in central London which also provides high end visual effects and post-production work for film and television. It operates as a fully trading limited company set up by its director Christopher M. Anthony (full Bafta member).

With experience spanning as far back as the mid 90’s, we’ve produced high end feature film production and post production on major grossing films and franchises from the Harry Potter series to X-Men and Indiana Jones. We have worked closely with many of the leading production houses, post-production houses and film crews and actors both in England and the United States.

Our company ethos is to produce and develop feature film to a standard suitable for theatrical distribution and commercials suitable for a television or cinema distribution. We are able to do this with a wealth of contacts and experience accumulated over the years in the industry. Kayfabe Films is able to take a film from script through to financing and pre-production and on to filming and post-production. Finally we can work with distributors on securing distribution deals.

We currently have a number of features in development and continue to produce music videos, high-end visual effects and commercials.

The term “Kayfabe” (pronounced KAY-fayb) is often seen as the suspension of disbelief. It is most commonly found in professional wrestling where it is used to create the non-wrestling aspects of promotions. A wrestler “breaking kayfabe” would be likened to an actor breaking character, or “the fourth wall” on camera. The name was chosen as it is both euphonic and because we believe that as film makers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s term “suspension of disbelief,” is of utmost importance to any film audience.

The origin of the term is uncertain. Professional wrestling can trace some of its stylistic origins back to carnivals and catch wrestling, where the term “kayfabe” is thought to have originated as carny slang for “protecting the secrets of the business.” With money tight, a carny would call home collect, telling the operator their name was “Kay Fabian.” This was code letting the people at home know they had made it safely to the next town. The family would then deny the call. This was a method of communicating without paying for the cost of a phone call or telegram.

Whatever the origin really is, we really do hope that watching our films will truly be a suspension of disbelief for our audiences.

Kayfabe Films Ltd. is registered in England and Wales. Company Number: 69216937