
Zygi Kamasa
Personal Info
Known for
Production
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
UK
Zygi Kamasa
Biography
Zygi Kamasa is one of the leading Executive Producers, film financiers and distributor in the UK.
He is the CEO and founder of True Brit Entertainment Ltd, a British based theatrical distributor dedicated exclusively to co-financing and co-producing British feature films and Television.
Zygi started his film career in 1993 as founder and Managing Director of television production company Scorpio Productions. In 1998, he and Simon Franks founded the independent film distributor, Redbus Film, which they sold to Lionsgate in October 2005 for $35million, where it was renamed Lionsgate UK.
For over 15 years he was then CEO for Lionsgate UK and Europe leading distribution in the UK across such franchises as The Hunger Games, The Expendables, as well as smash hits La La Land, Magic Mike and John Wick.
He also lead Lionsgate UK to support a large number of British independent films and television, shepherding the financing of over 50 British films. Notable UK successes included the critically acclaimed and Oscar nominated Brooklyn, starring Saoirse Ronan, The Railway Man, starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen with Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, and the UK box office smashes Bend It Like Beckham and Eddie The Eagle.
In 2020 he partnered with Matthew Vaughn at Marv studios, where he executive produced the Taron Egerton starrer Tetris, that was sold to Apple TV plus and Vaughns latest big budget film Argylle starring Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Samuel L Jackson and Joh Cena that will be released through Universal and Apple in 2024.
In 2023 by founding True Brit Entertainment, Zygi will focus exclusively on financing, supporting and distributing British independent feature films.
Crew
The Scurry
Executive Producer
(2025)
Marching Powder
Executive Producer
(2024)
Argylle
Executive Producer
(2023)
Tetris
Executive Producer
(2021)
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
Executive Producer
(2020)
Wild Mountain Thyme
Executive Producer
(2020)
A Christmas Gift from Bob
Executive Producer
(2020)
Six Minutes to Midnight
Executive Producer
(2020)
Military Wives
Executive Producer
(2020)
Made in Italy
Executive Producer
(2020)
Ammonite
Executive Producer
(2020)
How to Build a Girl
Executive Producer
(2020)
Summerland
Executive Producer
(2018)
Red Joan
Executive Producer
(2018)
The Happy Prince
Executive Producer
(2018)
On Chesil Beach
Executive Producer
(2018)
Ghost Stories
Executive Producer
(2017)
Their Finest
Executive Producer
(2016)
Eddie the Eagle
Executive Producer
(2016)
Trespass Against Us
Executive Producer
(2016)
The Limehouse Golem
Executive Producer
(2015)
A Little Chaos
Executive Producer
(2015)
A Royal Night Out
Executive Producer
(2015)
Brooklyn
Executive Producer
(2014)
A Long Way Down
Executive Producer
(2014)
What We Did on Our Holiday
Executive Producer
(2013)
Dom Hemingway
Executive Producer
(2013)
The Railway Man
Executive Producer
(2012)
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Executive Producer
(2012)
Great Expectations
Executive Producer
(2011)
The Moth Diaries
Executive Producer
(2011)
Blitz
Producer
(2006)
Half Light
Executive Producer
(2006)
The Wicker Man
Co-Producer
(2005)
An American Haunting
Executive Producer
(2005)
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Co-Producer
(2005)
The Best Man
Executive Producer
(2004)
School for Seduction
Executive Producer
(2004)
Tooth
Additional Writing, Producer
(2004)
Madhouse
Executive Producer
(2002)
Bend It Like Beckham
Executive Producer
(2002)
Spider
Executive Producer
(1995)
A Fistful of Fingers
Executive Producer