The Water Boatman
A young man returns home to find his girlfriend acting strange.
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Chris R. WrightDirectorK-Shop, Stalled, Faintheart, Fanged Up, Emulsion, Small Town Folk
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Chris R. WrightWriterK-Shop, Stalled, Faintheart, Fanged Up, Emulsion, Small Town Folk
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Rachel TeateKey CastWolfblood, Boys Meets Girl
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Charlie MillsKey CastMade in Chelsea
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Calum ChalmersProducerGraduation Afternoon
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Project Type:Short
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Genres:Horror, Arthouse, Romance
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Runtime:13 minutes 37 seconds
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Completion Date:April 25, 2016
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Production Budget:5,000 GBP
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Country of Origin:United Kingdom
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Country of Filming:United Kingdom
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:2.35:1
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
A graduate of America’s oldest school of improvisation (whose alumni includes Bill Murray and Harold Ramis) Chris is an actor noted for playing off-beat characters. He has appeared on screen alongside a growing list of respected British actors, such as Eddie Marsan, Steven Berkoff, Warwick Davis, Kevin Eldon and Jessica Hynes.
Chris has performed stand-up comedy, as well as putting his hand to writing, directing and producing. In 2014 he emerged as a finalist on Channel Five's Big Brother after a full 72 days in the most infamous house in Britain.
THE WATER BOATMAN is his directing debut.
Chris on IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1503852/?ref_=tt_ov_dr
THE WATER BOATMAN is a short 'romantic' horror, written and directed by Chris R. Wright..
Chris says of the film, "it's a stylized, impressionistic take on the end of a romance, with its toes dipped in the horror genre”.
“I have a long relationship with horror, from producing 2007's Small Town Folk, through to appearing in zombie favourite Stalled (2013), K-Shop (2016) and the upcoming vampire comedy Fanged Up (2017).”
Coupling his skills as a visual artist (Wright is a pen and ink illustrator) with a taste for the unusual, he hopes to make an impression with a very personal and dark take on the themes of love and dependence. He promises a strange, but beguiling film. "It is a culmination of ideas and images that have preoccupied me over the last few years, told in the only way I knew how.”
The film was shot in The New Forest, UK in the winter of 2015 and is independently produced.