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British film producer and director
Chris Bouchard
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Alma mater
| University of York
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Occupation(s)
| Film producer, film director, screenwriter
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Years active
| 2009?present
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Chris Bouchard
is a British film producer and director
[1]
of
The Hunt for Gollum
,
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
an independent
Lord of the Rings
fan film. The budget was kept to £3,000
[6]
using crowd-sourced visual effects. The film was released on streaming platforms in May 2009.
[7]
In its first week it was the ninety-fourth most watched film in lower Manhattan, NY. As of May 2024, it had been watched by 13 million people.
[8]
Bouchard went on to direct feature length crime drama
Hackney’s Finest
in 2014,
[9]
which was produced by London film studio
Framestore
.
[10]
In 2018 he co-directed
The Little Mermaid
which was released on
Netflix
. The film starred
Shirley MacLaine
,
Poppy Drayton
,
William Moseley
and Loreto Peralta.
[11]
[12]
Awards and honours
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Best Fiction Produced for the Web for
The Hunt for Gollum
at the 2009
Cinema Tous Ecrans festival
.
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References
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