Meet the Rebels.
Gemma Arterton
Gemma Arterton has been an actress for over 10 years, working extensively in both film and theatre. As time progressed, Gemma realised that acting wasn’t enough, that she had more to say. Gradually, executive production roles emerged on films such as The Escape, Vita and Virginia and Summerland, and with them, Gemma found real joy in being involved with the genesis of projects, crewing up and casting. Gemma is very proud to have produced the viral success, Leading Lady Parts, in support of the UK Time’s Up. Gemma is a proud advocate of ERA 50:50. Gemma’s passion is to support new talent and she is very proud to be at the helm of Rebel Park.
Jessica Malik
Jessica Malik, one of the co-founders of Rebel Park Productions, started her film career in 2004 at Capitol Films (the sales, financing and production outfit behind Gosford Park) before moving on to launch Exclusive Media where she rose to the role of Senior International Sales Executive handling international sales on over 500 feature films including the box office smash Woman in Black, Paul McGuigan’s Lucky Number Slevin, Peter Howitt’s Sliding Doors and Matt Reeves’ Let Me In. Jessica moved into producing in 2011. Her most recent feature film credits include TIFF runner up winning Zaytoun, which had its UK debut at the London Film Festival, Ghosted which premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival and Estranged which premiered at FrightFest. Rebel Park Productions produced the viral satirical short entitled Leading Lady Parts in support of the Times Up and #MeToo campaigns which went out on BBC. They have also produced Hayley Alien (which is currently in post-production).
Jessica Parker
Jessica Parker has worked in the film industry for almost 20 years. Gaining early experience and training with both Steve Clark-Hall and Marc Samuelson, working as a producer on films such as Me & Orson Welles and Stormbreaker, to then becoming creative & production executive at CinemaNX, at the time, one of the UK’s leading independent financiers. Jessica previously worked with both Jessica Malik and Gemma Arterton and the three joined forces in 2015 to create Rebel Park Productions, a company focused on supporting women in film; as leading subjects of the productions, as actors in front of the camera and as female crew - all of which were not being fairly represented. Rebel Park recently produced the viral success, Leading Lady Parts, written and directed by Jessica Swale which addresses gender inequality in the industry. Jessica is married with three children and lives in rural Gloucestershire.
Our Mission
The producers from Rebel Park explain why they set up their production company. Working to combat the lack of strong female stories throughout film and television, these producers are working to give women a voice in the industry. Produced by Rebel Park Productions.