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British film producer and director

Chris Bouchard
Alma materUniversity of York
Occupation(s)Film producer, film director, screenwriter
Years active2009–present

Chris Bouchard is a British film producer and director of The Hunt for Gollum, an independent Lord of the Rings fan film. The budget was kept to £3,000 using crowd-sourced visual effects. The film was released on streaming platforms in May 2009. 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.

Bouchard went on to direct feature length crime drama Hackney’s Finest in 2014, which was produced by London film studio Framestore. 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.

Awards and honours

Best Fiction Produced for the Web for The Hunt for Gollum at the 2009 Cinéma Tous Ecrans festival.

References

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