VISUALISING
NEW WORLDS
Interzone Pictures is an award-winning film studio specialising in premium documentaries, branded content, and animation. At the heart of our work is a drive to explore the undiscovered universe of ideas, experiences, and possibilities. Each project becomes its own expedition, taking us into uncharted territories - real or imagined.
SELECT
FILMS
WHAT WE DO
DOCUMENTARIES
We craft documentary features and series that crack open the unseen. Whether we’re tracing occult conspiracies or exposing the forces steering global finance, we bring radical ideas to the screen with cinematic intensity.
WHAT WE DO
DOCUMENTARIES
We craft documentary features and series that crack open the unseen. Whether we’re tracing occult conspiracies or exposing the forces steering global finance, we bring radical ideas to the screen with cinematic intensity.
INTERZONE PICTURES
IS A PROUDLY
LGBTQ+
OWNED
BUSINESS
FOUNDER
RUPERT RUSSELL
BIOGRAPHY
MISSION
Rupert Russell is an award winning filmmaker and author. His feature debut, FREEDOM FOR THE WOLF, won the Audience Award at the Slamdance Film Festival and was nominated for the Cinema for Peace ‘Most Valuable Film of the Year’ Award during Berlinale 2019. His second documentary, PRICE WARS, aired on ARTE and was published as a book by Penguin Random House. It was praised as a ‘geopolitical masterpiece’ by David Lammy MP and ‘one of the most important books of our time’ by The Intercept. His animated series on the Trump phenomenon, HOW THE WORLD WENT MAD, premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest and earned him a spot on the shortlist for the Young Director Award at Cannes Lions. His latest documentary feature, THE LAST SACRIFICE, was praised in a five-star Guardian review as 'fascinating and feverish,' was released in theatres nationwide and is slated for a streamer release in 2026. He is currently in production on MAD DAD, a feature documentary about his late father, the iconoclastic film director Ken Russell, featuring Guillermo del Toro, Kathleen Turner, Pete Townshend, Oliver Stone, Twiggy and many others. Rupert is a member of the LGBTQ+ community and has directed commercials celebrating Pride for HSBC. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Harvard University.
BIOGRAPHY
MISSION
Rupert Russell is an award winning filmmaker and author. His feature debut, FREEDOM FOR THE WOLF, won the Audience Award at the Slamdance Film Festival and was nominated for the Cinema for Peace ‘Most Valuable Film of the Year’ Award during Berlinale 2019. His second documentary, PRICE WARS, aired on ARTE and was published as a book by Penguin Random House. It was praised as a ‘geopolitical masterpiece’ by David Lammy MP and ‘one of the most important books of our time’ by The Intercept. His animated series on the Trump phenomenon, HOW THE WORLD WENT MAD, premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest and earned him a spot on the shortlist for the Young Director Award at Cannes Lions. His latest documentary feature, THE LAST SACRIFICE, was praised in a five-star Guardian review as 'fascinating and feverish,' was released in theatres nationwide and is slated for a streamer release in 2026. He is currently in production on MAD DAD, a feature documentary about his late father, the iconoclastic film director Ken Russell, featuring Guillermo del Toro, Kathleen Turner, Pete Townshend, Oliver Stone, Twiggy and many others. Rupert is a member of the LGBTQ+ community and has directed commercials celebrating Pride for HSBC. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Harvard University.
VISUALISING
VISUALISING
NEW
NEW
WORLDS
WORLDS
Interzone Pictures is an award-winning film studio specialising in premium documentaries, branded content, and animation. At the heart of our work is a drive to explore the undiscovered universe of ideas, experiences, and possibilities. Each project becomes its own expedition, taking us into uncharted territories - real or imagined.
SELECT
FILMS
FILMS
WHAT WE DO
DOCUMENTARIES
We craft award-winning documentary features and series that crack open the unseen. Whether we’re tracing occult conspiracies or exposing the forces steering global finance, we bring radical ideas to the screen with cinematic intensity.
WHAT WE DO
DOCUMENTARIES
We craft award-winning documentary features and series that crack open the unseen. Whether we’re tracing occult conspiracies or exposing the forces steering global finance, we bring radical ideas to the screen with cinematic intensity.
INTERZONE PICTURES
IS A PROUDLY
LGBTQ+
OWNED
BUSINESS
FOUNDER
FOUNDER
RUPERT RUSSELL
RUPERT RUSSELL
BIOGRAPHY
MISSION
Rupert Russell is an award winning filmmaker and author. His feature debut, FREEDOM FOR THE WOLF, won the Audience Award at the Slamdance Film Festival and was nominated for the Cinema for Peace ‘Most Valuable Film of the Year’ Award during Berlinale 2019. His second documentary, PRICE WARS, aired on ARTE and was published as a book by Penguin Random House. It was praised as a ‘geopolitical masterpiece’ by David Lammy MP and ‘one of the most important books of our time’ by The Intercept. His animated series on the Trump phenomenon, HOW THE WORLD WENT MAD, premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest and earned him a spot on the shortlist for the Young Director Award at Cannes Lions. His latest documentary feature, THE LAST SACRIFICE, was praised in a five-star Guardian review as 'fascinating and feverish,' was released in theatres nationwide and is slated for a streamer release in 2026. He is currently in production on MAD DAD, a feature documentary about his late father, the iconoclastic film director Ken Russell, featuring Guillermo del Toro, Kathleen Turner, Pete Townshend, Oliver Stone, Twiggy and many others. Rupert is a member of the LGBTQ+ community and has directed commercials celebrating Pride for HSBC. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Harvard University.
Interzone Pictures grew out of my own restless curiosity and the desire to build a place where ideas and images could collide in unpredictable ways. After years immersed in academic research — culminating in a PhD in sociology from Harvard — I found myself drawn to the power of popular storytelling as a way to make big, complex ideas feel intimate and alive. I’ve always been captivated by the strange, overlooked corners of human experience, and my documentary work has been a way of chasing those moments of wonder. A big part of that journey has been a deep, hands-on understanding of emerging technologies; staying close to the newest tools has allowed me to use VFX and animation with precision and intention, creating a sense of scale and visual impact regardless of budget. Now I feel an urgency to push further, to experiment with new forms and to explore stories that twist our perspective just enough to reveal something unexpectedly true. J.G. Ballard’s notion that Earth itself is an alien planet has long shaped how I see storytelling: its magic lies in making the familiar startling again, inviting us to question what we thought we knew. With Interzone, I hope to build worlds on screen that expand our sense of what our own world is—and what it could become.
BIOGRAPHY
MISSION
Rupert Russell is an award winning filmmaker and author. His feature debut, FREEDOM FOR THE WOLF, won the Audience Award at the Slamdance Film Festival and was nominated for the Cinema for Peace ‘Most Valuable Film of the Year’ Award during Berlinale 2019. His second documentary, PRICE WARS, aired on ARTE and was published as a book by Penguin Random House. It was praised as a ‘geopolitical masterpiece’ by David Lammy MP and ‘one of the most important books of our time’ by The Intercept. His animated series on the Trump phenomenon, HOW THE WORLD WENT MAD, premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest and earned him a spot on the shortlist for the Young Director Award at Cannes Lions. His latest documentary feature, THE LAST SACRIFICE, was praised in a five-star Guardian review as 'fascinating and feverish,' was released in theatres nationwide and is slated for a streamer release in 2026. He is currently in production on MAD DAD, a feature documentary about his late father, the iconoclastic film director Ken Russell, featuring Guillermo del Toro, Kathleen Turner, Pete Townshend, Oliver Stone, Twiggy and many others. Rupert is a member of the LGBTQ+ community and has directed commercials celebrating Pride for HSBC. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Harvard University.
Interzone Pictures grew out of my own restless curiosity and the desire to build a place where ideas and images could collide in unpredictable ways. After years immersed in academic research — culminating in a PhD in sociology from Harvard — I found myself drawn to the power of popular storytelling as a way to make big, complex ideas feel intimate and alive. I’ve always been captivated by the strange, overlooked corners of human experience, and my documentary work has been a way of chasing those moments of wonder. A big part of that journey has been a deep, hands-on understanding of emerging technologies; staying close to the newest tools has allowed me to use VFX and animation with precision and intention, creating a sense of scale and visual impact regardless of budget. Now I feel an urgency to push further, to experiment with new forms and to explore stories that twist our perspective just enough to reveal something unexpectedly true. J.G. Ballard’s notion that Earth itself is an alien planet has long shaped how I see storytelling: its magic lies in making the familiar startling again, inviting us to question what we thought we knew. With Interzone, I hope to build worlds on screen that expand our sense of what our own world is—and what it could become.
