Spring Films, Emmy-Winning Producer Behind ‘Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer,’ Files For Closure

EXCLUSIVE: Spring Films, the Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated British documentary producer, is shutting its doors.

Founded by André Singer, the company has filed for liquidation after 18 years of trading. Accountancy firm Azets has been appointed to oversee the winding-up process.

Singer and Spring Films CEO Chris Smith have been contacted for comment.

Spring Films has 12 employees listed on its website, while its most recent accounts showed debts worth £1.5M ($2M), according to a UK Companies House filing.

Night Will Fall, a film chronicling the making of the 1945 British government documentary German Concentration Camps Factual Survey, won outstanding historical programming at the 2016 News & Documentary Emmy Awards.

The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, which examined mass killings in Indonesia, were both Oscar-nominated. The Act of Killing won a BAFTA.

Spring Films’ other projects include Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer, a documentary that spotlighted the Fitzcarraldo director and some of his celebrated collaborators, and Channel 4 series The Defenders.