- Chris Croucher
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Chris Croucher (born August 1981) in Guildford, Surrey, is a screenwriter and film director. He started writing at a very early age and this fascination in story telling led him to study a BA in Film Production (He graduated in 2003).
After graduating he balanced his writing with a successful career as an assistant director. He worked on films and shows such as; Little Dorrit, Sense and Sensibility, Wimbledon, Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Magicians, Brick Lane and 28 Weeks Later.
His first script, the noir thriller I Am Tyler Marks was given a development from Screen South and the UK Film Council in 2005. His next project; a comedy based in the horse racing world and entitled Bitter Sweet is now being developed as a Feature film.
In 2007 Chris completed a television pilot entitled Twenty Something; The Quarter Life Crisis Of Jack Lancaster, based on the book by Iain Hollingshead.
In 2008 Chris moved away from just writing and directed the short Film The Beachcombers which was funded by Film London via The Lewisham Film Initiative and Co-written with Mark Beynon. The romantic short starred Charity Wakefield and Rasmus Hardiker. As well as screening at festivals worldwide the film went on to win the Film London & ITV 'Best Of Borough award 2008' presented at BAFTA.
Following The Beachcombers' success, Chris decided to make his second short film – In Passing. The 1940’s drama starred Lesley Sharp, Russell Tovey and Sean Pertwee and is set for the 2009/2010 festival circuit. The film has now secured distribution with Future Shorts and there are also plans for the film to screen on the BBC HD channel & BBC i-Player in summer 2010.
In January 2010 Chris was also nominated for the BBC Writers Room – ‘Tony Doyle Award For New Writing’. From hundreds of script entries his feature entitled ‘Christie’ was shortlisted amongst the final seven. Being shortlisted entitled him to a series of BBC Writers room seminars focusing on writing for Drama. Later in the year he was shortlisted for the BBC Writers Academy.
In 2011 Chris wrote and produced the short film 'Friend Request Pending' - a comedy drama about Social Networking starring Judi Dench, Penny Ryder, Philip Jackson, John Macmillan and Tom Hiddleston. The film will premier at the BFI London Film Festival in October 2011.
Chris is currently developing several projects including a low budget feature entitled 'Plan A' and TV series based on 'Friend Request Pending'.
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Categories:- English screenwriters
- English television directors
- English film directors
- 1981 births
- Living people
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