“No one who has not experienced it has any idea of the passion of the old lion“

- Sir Winston Churchill

1910. Admiral Lord John Fisher Aide de Camp.
Funeral of King Edward VII.

Sea Lord - The WW1 Navy Film about Admiral John ‘Jacky’ Fisher

1899. Sir John Fisher at The Hague Peace Conference. Photograph from the autobiography ‘Memories’ by Lord Fisher.

SEA LORD - a true story charting the remarkable rise and fall of Admiral John Fisher, First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty. Proposal for a dramatic feature film by his great great grand-daughter Film Producer, Penelope Fisher.

SEA LORD - a dramatised account of the defining eight months of Admiral John Fisher’s life, from October 1914 to May 1915. An exceptional and paradoxical man, John ‘Jacky’ Fisher (b.1841 d.1920) was responsible for creating the modern British Navy. He was Sir Winston Churchill’s mentor and together the two men ruled the Admiralty in the first year of World War I.

ADMIRAL JOHN FISHER, FIRST SEA LORD - a huge personality, an exceptional man and one of the most important figures in British Naval history. He devoted his career to the defence of Britain. His complex, energetic personality shaped the nation and won him admirers and enemies in equal measure. Fierce, stubborn, determined, charming and pragmatic. Celebrated as a master innovator and strategist, he was the brains behind the first all big gun battleship HMS Dreadnought, a game changer in the early 20th century arms race.

JOHN ARBUTHNOT FISHER, 1ST BARON FISHER OF KILVERSTONE - a caring husband and father, a devoted church-goer, but in love with Nina, Duchess of Hamilton. Enormously popular, he was a national treasure in his day and a confidant of Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and the young Sir Winston Churchill.

Contact Penelope Fisher to talk more about the proposal for Sea Lord, the next World War 1 film that must be made.

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Bio

Penelope Fisher

Producer

Icon Entertainment and Distribution UK/CineServe Technical Assistant, responsible for international delivery of Mel Gibson’s ‘Apocalypto’ and other Icon titles.

Production Co-ordinator & Personal Assistant to Producer Timothy Burrill - (‘La Vie en Rose’ & ‘Babylon AD’).

Production Assistant - Revolution Films.

Producer -‘Arch to Arc: An Epic Tribute’ selected for The Adventure Film Festival 2009. Winner of the Newcomers Award at the Guernsey Lily Film Festival 2007.

Co-Producer - Mines Awareness Trust Documentaries.

London Film Academy Filmmaking Diploma course (Distinction).

Film Project

1917. Portrait of John Arbuthnot Fisher by George Charles Beresford.

Sea Lord

Proposal for a dramatic feature film, charts the remarkable rise and fall of Admiral John ‘Jacky’ Fisher, First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty

The true and inspirational story of a self-made man of the Empire, desperate to find a place for himself in the world. He longs for a family and when he finds it in the British Navy, he gives it his whole life.

When Fisher and Churchill are brought together, their ambition is matched only by their imagination.

But these two massive personalities cannot peacefully co-exist together, and when their grand scheme in Gallipoli falters, a titanic power struggle ensues.