Makoff Productions is an independent production company based in London.
We develop original film and TV IP that entertains, provokes, and opens something in the audience.
We are building a slate of work that is politically awake, emotionally honest, and darkly funny when the truth allows it.
Our themes run through systemic power, womanhood, identity, institutional absurdity, and the complicated business of being alive right now.
We are building deliberately, with a large vision and a clear sense of what we are here to make.
We collaborate with writers, directors, and producers who are serious about craft and serious about what their work does in the world.
We turn insight into form.
why any of this matters
We believe the world is capable of more than it currently shows us. A world that holds difference without fear. That finds the shared heart underneath everything.
We believe film and television, at their best, can be part of getting there. Not as propaganda. Not as therapy. As art that is honest enough, funny enough, and human enough to crack something open.
The industry is capable of reflecting the full complexity of what it means to be fully human right now. We intend to be part of that. Not eventually, now.
founder
Leena Makoff is an actor, artist, and filmmaker whose work spans performance, writing, directing, and creative development across theatre, film, and television.
As an actor, she has worked on productions for Amazon Prime, BBC Wales and TVP1, appeared in fringe theatres across London, and built a voice-over practice that includes commercial campaigns for brands like Meta, Spotify, Charlotte Tilbury, Triumph and FedEx, on top of some video gaming adventures. Her anti-regime play, Polskie Halloween, written in Polish, was performed in the OFF section of the #41 PPA: Stage Song Review in Wroclaw, Poland.
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Apart from her artistic endeavours, Leena studied Film History and Theory at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, has managed teams in hospitality, taught yoga, and moved through enough of life's terrain to understand how people actually work under pressure, what they need to do their best, and where systems fail them. That breadth is not incidental to the company. It is foundational to it.
She is the person in the room who asks the question that cracks the project open, who sees what a story wants to become before it knows itself, who brings people into creative alignment and keeps the work tethered to its own heart. Conceptually, she is a force. She can channel an idea, boil it down to its essence and ignite the movement from imagination into form. That ability to hold the vision and pull others into it is what the company is built on.
Makoff Productions exists to create the conditions for work she believes in: freely developed, deeply collaborative, commercially alive and uncompromising at its core.
She is based in London.
what we do and why
Makoff Productions began with short films made on no budget. That was intentional. We used that time to understand how we work, what we stand for, and what we are genuinely capable of when the resources are limited, and the vision has to carry everything.
Now we are in a different chapter. We are in the process of securing funding for the production of a fully budgeted short film, developing a feature, building out a TV slate, and structuring a podcast with its own serious ambitions.
We are learning the industry properly, from the inside, with full commercial awareness and no shortcuts. Short films are a training ground, not a destination. The destination is feature films, television, and a body of work that travels.
We are moving towards that with everything we have, and we are looking for collaborators who want to move with us.
how we work
We call ourselves: matriarchal indie entertainment. That phrase is a description of method, not just identity.
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Matriarchal here means power that knows it is responsible for what it touches. Clear leadership without domination. Ambition without extraction. Creative environments where people are valued, challenged, and protected, and where the human being in the room is never the sacrifice.
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We work with people who take the craft seriously and take themselves lightly. We move with structure, honesty, and the occasional burst of completely necessary chaos.
contact
We are actively seeking investment partners who want to back original, values-driven work with genuine commercial ambition.
We are also open to conversations with writers, directors, producers, and creative collaborators who are serious about craft and serious about what their work does in the world.
We are early in our journey, and we know exactly where we are going. If any of this resonates, we would love to hear from you.