SC Films is an International Sales, Distribution, Finance and Production Company founded by Simon Crowe and Matthew Joynes.

SC Films was founded with financier Matthew Joynes in 2008. Matthew Joynes is involved in all aspects of speciality banking and finance technology.

SC Films is a films sales company, securing domestic and international sales and distribution as well as providing minimum guarantees, equity and bank GAP for producers. As part of this process, we develop unique strategies for each picture, drawing upon our expertise in development, production, sales, financing and distribution.

SC Films can provide:

  1. Minimum guarantees against international and domestic rights.
  2. Tax rebates cashflowed and managed.
  3. Source content from leading producers and agents from around the world.
  4. Film sales and licensing world-wide to independent distributors and/or studios.
  5. Creation of international and domestic marketing campaigns
  6. Royalty reports and overage collection by territory to maximise revenues
  7. P&A control by territory
  8. Access to film festivals ie Cannes, Toronto and Berlin

Meet the team

Simon Crowe

Managing Director / Partner

Simon is one of the most respected names in the film sales industry. Founder of Velvet Octopus and formerly Head of Sales at Icon Entertainment International and Capitol Films, Simon has a wealth of experience in the International sales, production and distribution business.

In November 2008 Simon decided to go solo and formed SC Films International with financier Matthew Joynes. He has been responsible for the International sales of commercial and art house films, titles include: ‘Monkey King – Hero is Back’ (No.1 Chinese animation film of all time: $155,000,000 BO), ‘The Reef’ animation franchise, ‘Yellowbird’ from TeamTo, ‘Charming’, ‘Gnome Alone’, ‘Marmaduke’ and ‘White Fang’. Other titles include; Gabor Csupo’s ‘The Secret Of Moonacre’, Sony’s ‘Legion’, George Clooney’s ‘Sand and Sorrow’, Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of the Christ’, Robert Altman’s ‘A Prairie Home Companion’, ‘Lucky Number Slevin’ starring Josh Hartnett, Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis and the action adventure ‘Stormbreaker’.

Simon Crowe was Chairman of Film Export UK between 2017 and 2025.

Matthew Joynes

Chairman / Partner

Matthew was called to the Bar in 1993 and completed his legal training at 1 Crown Office Row, before working in the banking and entertainment sector. Matthew has extensive legal experience of corporate finance transactions and entertainment law.

Matthew is currently based in Florida and is involved extensively in new tech businesses and film production. Recent successes include: Apple gaming tool ‘Gamevice’, tablet ‘Wikipad’ and the recently launched ‘Gaming Hall of Fame’ for gamers and VR.

Matthew has also produced two films: ‘Stolen’ starring Nic Cage, and ‘Bullet’ starring Danny Trejo.

Fumie Suzuki Lancaster

Director of International Sales & Marketing

Fumie is a graduate of Rikkyo University (Tokyo) in International Law.

Fumie joined GAGA, one of the most successful independent distribution companies in Japan in 2003. She was in charge of Acquisitions and Marketing for European Films. In her role as a film buyer, she was responsible for finding high quality arthouse films for the Japanese market. She worked on more than 40 films such as Oscar-winning film ‘March of the Penguin’, ‘Downfall’, BBC documentary ‘Earth’, ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ etc, and as a result, she gained expertise in worldwide and Japanese current markets.

Fumie moved to London in May 2007 and joined SC Films International. Fumie is now responsible for all non-English speaking International Sales and Acquisitions, recently Executive-Produced ‘Gensan Punch’ directed by Cannes-award winning director Brillante Mendoza and licensed the Worldwide Rights to HBO as HBO Asia Original film. Another of Fumie’s notable acquisitions was ‘Monkey King: Hero is Back’ the No.1 Chinese animated film of all time with a $156million Box Office in China.

Fumie’s expertise is in co-production projects between Europe and Asia.

She also has the role of Producer on several upcoming films, one of these titles is Brillante Mendoza’s new project ‘Chameleon’ which is currently in production.

Fin Crowe

Sales & Marketing Executive

Fin is a BA Hons graduate of Cardiff University in English Literature and has a marketing diploma from Bath University.

Following this, he gained experience at a Bristol-Based Factual Entertainment Talent Agency, and then worked in the legal and managing consultant sectors before making the switch to Film Sales & Distribution by joining SC Films in 2024.

Fin’s main responsibility is sales, acquisitions and marketing for SC Films, working on recent films ORANG IKAN, GROW and GIRL IN THE CLOUDS.