Frank Mannion is the managing director of the award winning film and television production, sales and distribution company, Swipe Films. It is one of the few vertically integrated independent entertainment companies in Europe. He produced the independent hits, Grand Theft Parsons, starring Johnny Knoxville, Michael Shannon and Christina Applegate, and Jackboots On Whitehall, with Ewan McGregor and Rosamund Pike. Mannion directed the critically acclaimed Quintessentially British with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench, Sparkling: The Story of Champagne with Stephen Fry and the forthcoming Quintessentially Irish with Pierce Brosnan. Swipe Films has built up a valuable library of over 25 films, winning over 100 awards at major festivals around the world, including the Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals. Swipe's productions include Get Lucky, starring Luke Treadaway for Universal Pictures, and the 3D animated Christmas movie, Saving Santa, with Martin Freeman and Joan Collins. Other productions include the true crime thriller, Plastic, with Will Poulter and Alfie Allen, released by Paramount Pictures, and the romantic comedy, Taking Stock (with Kelly Brook) for Netflix.Swipe's Virtual Reality division was launched in September 2017 and it created the world's first ever Virtual Reality Trailer App for the independent film Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge. The VR app was produced to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Nobel Prize winner.Specialties: Movie production, worldwide sales, UK theatrical and digital marketing and distribution and Virtual Reality production. Marketing, launch, digital and social media strategies for new movies at Cannes, Sundance, Venice and Berlin Film Festivals.Mannion is a law graduate from Trinity College Dublin and Trinity Hall Cambridge. He holds a PhD from Birmingham City University.