Harbour Pictures Productions was created in 1999 to produce feature films. Disney’s distribution arm, Buena Vista, signed a first look deal in 2000 with Harbour and the first film under that deal was Calendar Girls starring Helen Mirren and Julie Walters. The film was produced by Nick Barton for Touchstone / Buena Vista in 2002. It became one of the highest grossing British films in the UK and took $100 million at the international box office.

Then the acclaimed Kinky Boots, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Joel Edgerton was produced for Buena Vista / Miramax in 2006 and later became a hit stage musical. Both films received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations.

In 2016 Harbour Pictures and Nick Barton produced Swallows & Amazons, based on Arthur Ransome’s  classic family adventure story, for BBC Films, the BFI, Screen Yorkshire, Studio Canal and Hanway Films.

The award winning film starred Rafe Spall, Kelly Macdonald and Andrew Scott.

Harbour Pictures and Nick Barton currently have a number of films and television projects in development or pre-production with ; Participant Media, Ingenious Media,   P & B Films,  Rocket Science Films, Hanway Films, Taska Films etc.

Prior to setting up Harbour Pictures Nick Barton’s credits includenumerous advertising commercials with Terence Donovan; then television documentaries and dramas, such as “The World A Television History” ( C4) “Spaceship Earth” ( C4/PBS) “The French Foreign Legion” for BBC TV, “Moving Story” (ITV) “Bye Bye Baby” (Film on Four) “Boswell & Johnson” (BBC) “The Wimbledon Poisoner (BBC) “The 7 Wonders of the World” ( for Discovery/ C4 ) “Vanishing Man” (ITV), and “Great Excavations/List Worlds” a major 6-part documentary series for C4.