Zygi Kamasa
Produzent, Darsteller
Zygi Kamasa is one of the leading Executive Producers, film financiers and distributor in the UK.
He is the CEO and founder of True Brit Entertainment Ltd, a British based theatrical distributor dedicated exclusively to co-financing and co-producing British feature films and Television.
Zygi started his film career in 1993 as founder and Managing Director of television production company Scorpio Productions. In 1998, he and Simon Franks founded the independent film distributor, Redbus Film, which they sold to Lionsgate in October 2005 for $35million, where it was renamed Lionsgate UK.
For over 15 years he was then CEO for Lionsgate UK and Europe leading distribution in the UK across such franchises as The Hunger Games, The Expendables, as well as smash hits La La Land, Magic Mike and John Wick.
He also lead Lionsgate UK to support a large number of British independent films and television, shepherding the financing of over 50 British films. Notable UK successes included the critically acclaimed and Oscar nominated Brooklyn, starring Saoirse Ronan, The Railway Man, starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen with Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, and the UK box office smashes Bend It Like Beckham and Eddie The Eagle.
In 2020 he partnered with Matthew Vaughn at Marv studios, where he executive produced the Taron Egerton starrer Tetris, that was sold to Apple TV plus and Vaughns latest big budget film Argylle starring Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Samuel L Jackson and Joh Cena that will be released through Universal and Apple in 2024.
In 2023 by founding True Brit Entertainment, Zygi will focus exclusively on financing, supporting and distributing British independent feature films.
He is the CEO and founder of True Brit Entertainment Ltd, a British based theatrical distributor dedicated exclusively to co-financing and co-producing British feature films and Television.
Zygi started his film career in 1993 as founder and Managing Director of television production company Scorpio Productions. In 1998, he and Simon Franks founded the independent film distributor, Redbus Film, which they sold to Lionsgate in October 2005 for $35million, where it was renamed Lionsgate UK.
For over 15 years he was then CEO for Lionsgate UK and Europe leading distribution in the UK across such franchises as The Hunger Games, The Expendables, as well as smash hits La La Land, Magic Mike and John Wick.
He also lead Lionsgate UK to support a large number of British independent films and television, shepherding the financing of over 50 British films. Notable UK successes included the critically acclaimed and Oscar nominated Brooklyn, starring Saoirse Ronan, The Railway Man, starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen with Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, and the UK box office smashes Bend It Like Beckham and Eddie The Eagle.
In 2020 he partnered with Matthew Vaughn at Marv studios, where he executive produced the Taron Egerton starrer Tetris, that was sold to Apple TV plus and Vaughns latest big budget film Argylle starring Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Samuel L Jackson and Joh Cena that will be released through Universal and Apple in 2024.
In 2023 by founding True Brit Entertainment, Zygi will focus exclusively on financing, supporting and distributing British independent feature films.
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Filmografie
| 2026 | The Scurry · as Executive Producer |
| 2026 | Sunny Dancer · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | Christmas Karma · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | Marching Powder · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | Giant · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | Argylle · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | The Critic · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | Tetris · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Wild Mountain Thyme · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | A Christmas Gift from Bob · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Six Minutes to Midnight · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Ammonite · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Summerland · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Made in Italy · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Cold Courage · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | How to Build a Girl · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Military Wives · as Executive Producerauf plex.tv |
| 2018 | Red Joan · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | The Happy Prince · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | On Chesil Beach · as Executive Producerauf plex.tv |
| 2017 | Ghost Stories · as Executive Producerauf plex.tv |
| 2017 | Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Churchill · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Their Finest · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Trespass Against Us · as Executive Producerauf plex.tv |
| 2016 | The Limehouse Golem · as Executive Producerauf plex.tv |
| 2016 | Brotherhood · as Executive Producerauf plex.tv |
| 2016 | London Has Fallen · as Executive Producerauf plex.tv |
| 2015 | Eddie the Eagle · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Brooklyn · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | A Royal Night Out · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Slow West · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Testament of Youth · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | What We Did on Our Holiday · as Executive Producerauf plex.tv |
| 2014 | A Little Chaos · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | The Expendables 3 · as Co-Producer |
| 2014 | A Long Way Down · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | The Railway Man · as Executive Producerauf plex.tv |
| 2013 | Dom Hemingway · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | Filth · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Great Expectations · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Keith Lemon: The Film · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | The Expendables 2 · as Co-Producer |
| 2011 | Salmon Fishing in the Yemen · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | The Moth Diaries · as Executive Producerauf plex.tv |
| 2011 | Blitzauf plex.tv |
| 2007 | Taking 5 · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | The Wicker Man · as Co-Producer |
| 2006 | Half Light · as Executive Producerauf plex.tv |
| 2005 | Diameter of the Bomb · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck. · as Co-Producer |
| 2005 | The Best Man · as Executive Producerauf plex.tv |
| 2005 | An American Haunting · as Executive Producerauf plex.tv |
| 2004 | School for Seduction · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Madhouse · as Executive Producer |
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| 2003 | Grand Theft Parsons · as Executive Producerauf plex.tv |
| 2002 | Bollywood Queen · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Spider · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Bend It Like Beckham · as Executive Producer |
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| 1995 | A Fistful of Fingers · as Executive Producer |
| 1999 | An Ideal Husband · as Security Guard |
| 2016 | Motherland · as Executive Producer: Lionsgate Tv |
| 2013 | Olympus Has Fallen · as Co-Executive Producerauf plex.tv |
| 2004 | Tooth · as Additional Material |