Jonny Tull on the independent film distributor Tull Stories and Movies That Changed Your Life: Three Colours White, Dawn Of The Dead, The Ladykillers from 3 FILMS THAT HAVE IMPACTED EVERYTHING IN YOUR ADULT LIFE: A Britflicks Podcast with screenwriter Stuart Wright

3 FILMS THAT HAVE IMPACTED EVERYTHING IN YOUR ADULT LIFE: A Britflicks Podcast with screenwriter Stuart Wright

Stuart Wright

Jonny Tull on the independent film distributor Tull Stories and Movies That Changed Your Life: Three Colours White, Dawn Of The Dead, The Ladykillers

46 minutes Posted Oct 21, 2025 at 10:01 pm.

] What and who is the film distributor Tull Stories?

] What gaps in the UK distribution have you discovered since setting up Tull Stories

] What has been the steepest part of the learning curve since starting Tull Stories?

] What is your biggest change in perceptions about the role of the distributor since you have become one?

] The importance of national newspaper coverage to independent film distribution

] The importance of working with the filmmaker to independent film distribution.

] 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life

] Jonny Tull describes Three Colours White as his career starter via work placement he got at the Tyneside Cinema and was bungled into the cinema by the woman who would later become his wife just to get rid of him and the second film he saw that day was Three Colours White.

] Jonny Tull shares how Dawn Of The Dead was a formative film for him. It was how he started to understand what he really liked about film.

] Jonny Tull talks about how The Ladykillers is about British cinema. It was one of those films that was always on the television when he was growing up. Watching now it’s as fantastic and as good he remembers it and ever performance is just brilliant as well. It’s post-war Britain under the microscope.

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Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with independent distributor Jonny Tull, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore Three Colours Whiteimpact, Dawn Of The Dead analysis, and The Ladykillers influence on his personal growth and cinema’s transformative power. Jonny Tull also discusses why he formed the independent film distributor Tull Stories

Movies That Changed Your Life

Find out about the independent film distributor Tull Stories and the lasting impact of cinema with Stuart Wright on his movie podcast.

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Three Colours White impact

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Dawn Of The Dead analysis

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The Ladykillers Influence

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Key Take Aways:

- Discover how movies that changed your life shape personal and professional growth.

-Learn about independent film distribution

- Learn about what Tull Stories can offer you

- The power of a mentor to a screenwriter

- What is good script coverage

- Understand cinema’s transformative power through Three Colours White (1994), Dawn Of The Dead (1978), The Ladykillers (1955)

- Full show notes and transcript:

About the Guest:

Jonny Tull has over 25 years of working the UK film exhibition sector and has been working in film distribution since 2017.

Coming soon from Tull Stories:

GOING TO THE DOGS - NOV 7

https://tullstories.co.uk/films/going-to-the-dogs/

STILL PUSHING PINEAPPLES - NOV 28

https://tullstories.co.uk/films/still-pushing-pineapples/

MOTHERBOARD (released in August), was nominated for a Grierson award and been BIFA longlisted today:

https://tullstories.co.uk/films/motherboard/

A new title for 2026. Incredible Film has locked a distribution deal with UK-based Tull Stories for the Dutch-English feature The North: https://tullstories.co.uk/deadline-incredible-film-inks-distribution-for-the-north/

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Credits:

Intro/Outro music: *Rocking The Stew* by Tokyo Dragons (⁠https://www.instagram.com/slomaxster/⁠)

Written, produced, and hosted by Stuart Wright for [Britflicks.com](⁠https://www.britflicks.com/britflicks-podcast/⁠)

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