British Shorts Film Festival, Berlin
The Wraith has made the Official Selection for the British Shorts Film Festival, Berlin.
The full programme can be found at the festival website here.
The Wraith – LIVE on VIMEO
Hello! After a year since we started shooting The Wraith has finished its festival run and is now live for the world to watch and enjoy!
I’d like to thank everyone who was involved with the project including Angharad, Dave and Mark, Bernard, the guys at Voiceover Soho, all at Urban Apache Films, Sam from Red Dog Film and Harry for his excellent “handy” work.
The project was so much fun and proves that all you need is an idea……the rest will follow.
Check out our other projects on our Vimeo Channel. In the meantime you can watch The Wraith, in full, right here:
The Wraith at Crystal Palace International Film Festival
Great news! The Wraith has made the official selection for this years Crystal Palace International Film Festival.
Great little review in Left Lion!
The Wraith just got a nice review in Left Lion this month. Here’s the piece below…
The Wraith – Teaser Trailer Online!
Here’s the first teaser! We’ll keep you posted with festival dates so you can see the film theatres!
The Wraith – Trailer from Polymath Pictures on Vimeo.
Bernard Hill – The Narrator
Great news today! Bernard Hill (Lord of the Rings, Titanic) has just recorded the narration for The Wraith!
I got in touch with Bernard a month or so ago and he agreed to be part of the project. So yesterday while killing time in the capital we went into a cool little voice over recording studio and recorded the narration for the film. It sounds fantastic and I’ve spent the day editing the narration into the film and preforming the final grade.
We’re almost there now. Just a few private screenings to iron out any creases and chop it down to time (15 mins for most short film festivals). Then it’s press pack time and it’ll be sent out to festivals around the world.
Watch this space for festival news! xxx
“Frozen Britain” – Perfect shooting conditions!!
Looks like perfect shooting conditions to me! Let’s do it!
Half of the script calls for a “Winter Garden” so all being well we’re going to make the most of it. First day of shooting this weekend. Better pack the thermos (and the A-Line flares with pockets in the knees)!
A brief introduction
Back in 2005 me and my partner Amy decided to write a screenplay. Inspired by film-makers like Jim Henson, Tim Burton and Guillermo del Toro we set to work on a short film script.
However, it wasn’t quite as easy as you might think. We had loads of ideas but we needed a method to control the madness. So having come from a theatre & drama background Amy suggested a kind of “stream of consciousness” to get the ball rolling. So we got out the pens and paper and wrote whatever came to mind without any breaks. Then from that we crossed out words we didn’t like and merged our findings into phrases and paragraphs.
Almost instantly we found that we had a story, albeit a fairly abstract one. So we developed the idea and finally came up with the idea of this young woman trapped in some sort of limbo. I got on and wrote a rough script and we got into the realms of pre-production when life took over and the script got buried amongst the bills and sheet music.
An eventful 4 years passed and the script reared its ugly head again. After a few modifications it’s all back on again. We are making the film! This website is here to tell the story – from script to screen.
We are in pre-production at the moment – sourcing props, costumes; finding locations and actors; making puppets and prosthetics. It is my intention to keep a record of the entire production process to act not only as a record but as a press resource and any other kind of resource and inspiration to other film-makers who just want to make films that they want to make.
