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Patchwork Productions was
set up in 2004 by freelance producer Christine Hartland who produced in 2008
her first feature film wmd. by David
Holroyd represented by Independent Film Company. Patchwork Production has a
slate of feature length projects at different stages of development and award
winning short films.
Christine
has over ten years of experience in corporate film, video and event productions,
and, has worked on projects such as World Expo 2000. Corporate clients include
BT, Nokia, Novartis, Barclays, GSK, Brookstreet, Alliance & Leicester,
sanofi-aventis,
Patchwork Productions is looking for investors interested in
individual projects or its entire slate.
Feature Films
Completed
wmd. by David Holroyd
*** “undeniably gripping...
definitely worth a look” – The Guardian
*** “gripping... does a
serious job of indicting those who took us to war” – Channel
4
“Eerily plausible...
impressive” – Graydon Carter, Editor
of Vanity Fair
“Modern Cinema at its best” –
John Pilger, multi-award winning war
correspondant
“Well worth watching... makes
it easy to see how the facts were misused to get us to war in Iraq” – Clare Short MP
“Intense... Holroyd doesn’t
much lift the lid as tear it off” – Little White
Lies
“Effective
in style and chilling in its execution” – Brit Films
Represented by Independent Film Company following
its market screening in Cannes 2008
Available
on:
iTunes UK
& USA
DVD Amazon
in the US
DVD on Amazon
in the UK
Rental and VOD on LoveFILM the
UK.
And on
iTunes
Nominated
Best Debut UK Feature at the East
End Film Festival 2009
In development
Leanne ♥ Pierre by Neil Wagstaff – shortlisted
for The Big Pitch
If you see a crocodile
writer Matthew Pitt, director Guy Pitt
Nitrate by Guy Ducker and Gavin Boyter
Alpha writer Antony
Woodruffe, director Neil McEnery West
Early
stages of development
More Than Murder
written by Ross Lewis
Innocent Affair based
on Ann Hulme’s novel & being adapted by Hari Patience
As executive producer
Life Just Is by Alex Barrett and produced by Tom
Stuart
Award
Winning Short
Films
(For more detailed info see
below for more info)
Big Girl Little Girl by Amelia Hann (2004) – Best
Short in Miami ‘04
Wooden Soul by
Rehana Rose Khan (2006) – Best Editing in Film Festival of India
‘06
Four Conversations About Love by Jessica Townsend
(2006)
Produced
by Maria Goyal – Best First Time Filmmaker – Washington 2007
‘SICK’ by Mike Rymer (2007) – Gold Award in Houston Film
Festival, Golden Knight at Malta Film Festical
& Best Short Film in AsterFest (2008)
BARRY by John Mitchell (2009)
Produced
by Casey Herbert
Part
of Virgin Media Competition 2009
*****
Feature Films
wmd. written & directed by David Holroyd.
Director of Photography Steve
Buckland. Editor Celia Haining. Production Designer James Lees. Costume
Designer Nadia Dunn-Hill. Casting Director Carolyn McLeod. Music by Samuel J
Sim and Chris White. Designer James Muriel. Assistant Producer Kasia Skibinska.
Production Coordinator Nour Wazzi. Executive Producer Mark Watson-Mitchell.
Main Cast
Simon Lenagan. Jo-Anne
Knowles. Burnell Tucker. Glenn Conroy. Henry Everett. Robert Cambrinus. Peter
Barnes. Montserrat Roig de Puig.
Synopsis
A little knowledge is
a dangerous thing.
2002. The United States and the UK are pushing to
invade Iraq. Intelligence sources report
Saddam has biochemical weapons ready for immediate launch – the perfect
justification for war.
When Alex Morgan – an ordinary
MI6 desk officer uncovers deliberate flaws in the evidence being used to support invasion, he has to
decide whether to risk his career and even his safety for this deceitful web of
lies.
A fictional account inspired by real events, WMD
reveals what intelligence circles really knew in the build-up for war. Does Saddam Hussein really possess weapons of
mass destruction? Does it even matter?
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a
revolutionary act” - George Orwell
wmd. available to buy on:
Currently the film is
available on iTunes, on DVD and VOD on Amazon
in the US,
on Amazon
in the UK, and rental, stream and VOD on LoveFILM the
UK
Festivals wmd. was launched
at the Brighton Film Festival, East
End Film Festival and Notting Hill Film Festival.
wmd. will be available on
other platforms so if you are interested in keeping in touch please join our
mailing list from our website www.wmd-insidestory.com.
For more information or join our emailing list please visit:
'Our First Feature
Film' group on facebook
Press coverage:
wmd.
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Feature
Projects in
development
Leanne ♥ Pierre by Neil Wagstaff - Top 6
in The Big Pitch
If you see a crocodile writer Matthew Pitt and director Guy Pitt
Nitrate by
Guy Ducker and Gavin Boyter
More Than Murder
writer Ross Lewis
An Innocent Affair
based on Ann Hulme’s novel
&
being adapted by Hari Patience
Leanne ♥ Pierre written & directed by Neil Wagstaff
Andrew Harrison Producer
Shortlisted Top 6 out of 200 projects for The Big
Pitch
Tag Line
A 14-year old girl with dyspraxia
develops a crush for the first time and tries to win the heart of a handsome,
popular boy.
Supported by Dyspraxia Foundation
If you see a crocodile
Writer Matthew Pitt
Director Guy Pitt
Producer James Bolton
If You See a Crocodile is a
childhood road-movie set in the backwaters and badlands of London’s canals.
Funny, frightening and sad, it tells the story of how an 8-year-old girl’s
attempt to travel alone across the city turns into the adventure of a lifetime.
It will chart the terrifying moments, bizarre encounters and occasional,
unforgettable childhood bliss of an incredible journey from north London to
Crystal Palace, and the effect on the adults left behind.
Nitrate
By Guy Ducker and Gavin
Boyter
Some things are best left unfinished.
Synopsis
A hotshot director uncovers
the truth behind the murder of his filmmaking idol when he reconstructs the
dead man's lost, unfinished masterpiece.
More Than Murder
Writer
Ross Lewis
Associate
Producer Andrew Harrison
If you could get away with murder,
would you?
Synopsis
A dinner
party joke turns into a desperate reality when six friends plot how they would
get away with murder.
An Innocent Affair
Based
on the novel by Ann Hulme
Screenplay
by Hari Patience
Log line
Faith
dies at the funeral of a stranger bringing two very different families together
in this very English tale of fate love and jealousy.
Hari’s
first feature screenplay, MATA, reached the semi-finals of the Chesterfield
Screenwriting Fellowship organised by Paramount Studios. She has written
numerous short films and her comedy feature film about speed dating is Three
Minutes Moments by Don Allen.
Award
Winning Short
Films
Big Girl Little Girl by Amelia Hann (2004)
Award winner Big Girl Little Girl written &
directed by Amelia Hann distributed by Dazzle.
To watch the film please
click here: Big Girl
Little Girl on BBC Film Network
WINNER
“Best
Short Film – Miami Film Festival” 2004
“Best
Directing – Strasbourg Film Festival” 2004
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
“Toronto IFCT screening” – December 2005
“Official
Selection – Bucharest Film Festival” – Nov 2005
“Showcomotion
Film Festival screening – Sheffield” – July 2005
“Official Selection at the
“Official Selection – New York Short Film
Festival” 2004
“Official Selection – San Francisco Short Film Festival”
2004
“Official Selection - Festival de
Cine Internacional de Barcelona” 2004
Synopsis
7 year old Lucy is in love
with her uncle, and finds herself fighting for attention in a big girl’s world.
Cast
Big Girl Little Girl
introduces Molly McMorrow (Lucy) and
Perrier award nominee Dan Antopolski
(Uncle Lolly) in their first acting roles. They are joined by highly experienced
Melanie Gutteridge (the girlfriend),
Lorna Fitzgerald (the little
sister), whose career has since taken off, and veterans Donna McCabe and Rob Reina.
Wooden Soul by Rehana Rose Khan (2006)
Wooden Soul is
written & directed by Rehana Rose Khan
and
supported by the Child Bereavement Trust and the British Council.
Shot
on HDCAM (Sony 900) Wooden Soul is
on the short film festival circuit.
Synopsis
Amber,
eleven, is facing the imminent death of her father. She copes with the situation
in her own way, which is charming to some and shocking to others.
“Wooden
Soul” is everything a short film should be – profound,
touching and witty with the elegance and punch of a full-length feature.” Emma Thompson, Actor &
Screenwriter
“Wooden Soul” is a powerful insight into the isolation so often experienced by
bereaved children. The value of this film is in the debate it is likely to
generate around how children may behave in grief.” Jenni Thomas OBE, Child Bereavement Charity
Awards
‘Best Edited film’ at the Short Film
Festival of India 2007
Official
Selections
The
WOCAF Festival – Mar 2008
London
Short Film Festival – Jan 2008
DC
Short Film Festival – Sept 2007
Portobello
Film Festival – Aug 2007
Screenings
Britspotting
Berlin the special youth programme
“School
of Life” 2007 in Potsdam/Germany
Shortlisted
at the 5th London Short Film Festival 2008
Part
of ‘Femmes Fantastiques’
For more info pls visit: Ponder Productions
Four Conversations about Love written & directed
by JessicaTownsend (2006)
produced
by Maria Goyal (Palette Productions)
starring Nadia Cameron-Blakey, Alexandra Staden, John
Blakey & Gary Lilburn
Currently the film festival
circuit 2008 – distributed by Newworld Films
A Short Cuts style short film about four
loosely connected people dealing with love, loss, and, finally grace.
Synopsis
A man and a woman make love for the last time. A
father and daughter meet in a café for the first time. A woman tells her
girlfriend she is unexpectedly pregnant. A tormented stranger visits a woman
and her baby.
Awards
Winner ‘Best First Time Filmmaker’ –
Washington DC Shorts 07
‘An
alluring and provocative film that was well-crafted and beautifully short’
– DC Shorts
Current
Official Selections
LA Shorts Fest 2007
LA Femme 2007
Marbella
Film Festival 2007
20th
Paris Feminist and Lesbian Film Festival 2008
‘SICK’ written & directed by Mike Rymer
Director of Photography – Sam Garwood
Assistant Producer – Dana Wilson
Currently on the film
festival circuit 2008 thanks to the support of Screen South and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation
Trust Charitable Funds
Please click here for the current Awards & Nominations
‘SICK’ from EgoProject breaks the silence…
35mm short psychological
drama SICK is supported by the Samaritans and financially assisted by Film London & Wandsworth Borough and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Charitable
Funds is currently in post-production. Shortlisted by the Film Council
for completion funding.
‘'A compelling and moving work that will
resonate with audiences'’ - Samaritans
"A
subtle yet forceful story sensitively portrayed. Film
London is proud to have funded this project" – Film London
"Wandsworth
Council was delighted to be involved with this successful project and continues
to provide support and assistance to imaginative new film makers.
Congratulations to Mike Rymer and his team for making such a well produced
short film that engages the viewer on a difficult subject." – Wandsworth Film Office
Background
Untreated, it is widely
considered as one of the biggest killers in the western world. Yet as pervasive
as the condition itself is the silence that surrounds it. Its name is
depression.
Synopsis
As 70 year-old Brian’s story
slides backwards through 15 years of psychiatric intervention, and his
daughter’s crashes forwards over one unbearable night, they culminate on the
eve of her self-harm - the catalyst of his condition. ‘SICK’.
For more info & the trailer
please check the web site EgoProject
Review
‘SICK’
is a nonliner but very powerful discussion of the multi-generational affects of
depression. Difficult to discern at first, by the end the short completely
resolves itself. Heartrending and universal, the strong acting and visuals make
for a world where the audience is made to understand all that comes from
depression and all that it means. Not so much about the story as about the
message, it gives the audience a detailed glimpse at this particular
'sickness.'
Press Coverage:
Moviescope
magazine SICK-honoured-by-canadians
02/10/08
- Mental Health Day - 'SICK' in the Guardian
21/03/07 - SAMARITANS
links with movie 'SICK'
04/04/07 - Film London - 'SICK'
Success
15 /10/07 - Screen South
Confirm Lottery Award
Director Mike Rymer’s pod cast: Directors-notes
pod cast
WINNER
Gold Award - 41st Annual WorldFest at
Houston International Film Festival – April 08
Golden Knight at Malta
International Film Festival – Nov 08
Honourable Mention at The
Accolade Film Awards
Best Short Film at AsterFest 2008,
Macedonia
Special Prize to the Best Short Film at
Chicago Short Film Festival
Best Editing at San Francisco
Short Film Festival
Best Actor at Festival de Cine
de Granada
Special Merit at Short Cuts Film
Festival 2008
Integral Realisation at Barcelona
International Cinema Festival
For ‘Directing’ at Bruxelles
Cinema Festival
For ‘Screenplay’ at Golden Gate
Fiction & Documentary Festival
NOMINATIONS
Best International Short at Rome Independent Film Festival
Best International Short at 13th Shadowline Salerno Film Festival
Best International Short at Salento
International Film Festival
Best Short Film at Waterford
Film Festival
Best Short Film at Reggio Film
Festival / International Short Film Contest
For ‘Scriptwriting’ at Grand
Off: European Off Film Awards
SHORT LISTED
UK Film Council Completion Fund 2006 (1st assembly)
WINNER
10th Annual Wandsworth Film Award 2004 - London Production Fund - Film
London
(script package)
AWARDED
Regional Investment Fund for England - Screen South
The UK Film Council
BARRY by John Mitchell (2009)
Produced
by Casey Herbert
Part
of Virgin Media Competition 2009
Synopsis
Ella is seven. Her best friend is the best friend a
girl could have: Barry. Her rabbit.
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