Happy New Year everyone!

I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas and saw the New Year in well!

As of December 2009 finishing off the year i was asked to be a Guest editor for Propeller4film on behalf of  Chance Encounters. Propeller4film is Propeller TV’s next venture with even more benefits than before on getting your short film out there to the industry. In 2008 ‘Chainmail’ was shown on PropellerTV to millions in the UK and Europe giving us a new audience. Now Propeller4film in a new change of name but even better than ever, displays the cream crop of all rising filmmakers and award winning short films, so for interest of your film being exposed to the industry and/or to watch some great films please check it out;

http://www.propeller4film.com

I had fun reviewing some short films and had a chance to explain what Chance Encounters is about and what we intend to bring with our original films.

If any other company is looking for an Original screenplay to produce ‘The Waiting Room’ contact me here. It’s getting some great offers and was recently nominated for Best Horror script at the International Action On  Film festival last year.

Funding / financing as always send me an email and explain we have screenplays to Direct or maybe there’s a screenplay for you to direct? Drop me a line in the contact bar.

We have some great new things coming into fruition for 2010 so don’t forget to regularly check up here to see whats coming up!

All the best,

John

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‘The Waiting Room’ Screenplay Nominated ‘Best Horror’

A story by Richard Chance which became the eventual screenplay ‘The Waiting Room’ by Richard Chance and Jonathan Chance was nominated at the International Action on Film Festival writers awards in Pasadena, California on July 29th. Producer and Creator of the AOF Del Weston proudly said “This year’s screenplays if you were nominated were the cream of crop” each year the AOF has gone from strength to strength becoming bigger with every year and 2009 was no exception. The AOF has recently been considered to be one of the top 25 film festivals by ‘Moviemaker’ magazine worth their money in entering. Not a small or minor category, ‘The Waiting Room’s category was for ‘Best Horror Feature screenplay’ a high end nomination to be in.  Our story requires financing and funding to make a reality but by even indie standards in cost is incredibly low. If you have an interest to get involved with us and our project IE; produce, sponsor etc get in contact with us here!

John

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‘In Light of light’ was created for the London Science Fiction 48 hour film challenge, in which the film makers that took part had to script, shoot, create the music, sound effects and edit a short film within 48 hours. Each team was given a random prop, dialogue and a title to use within the film. As you can imagine it was a stressful shoot. Of the 77 teams to enter only 55 teams completed their films in time. Although our three man team didn’t win in the event we believe that the final outcome is worth a watch.

Richard.

Daily Motion LINK:

http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/xxdx4_SFLTV_48-hour-challenge-2009/video/x93c9j_in-light-of-light_shortfilms

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Hello everybody! Just a quick note to say our films are now updated on IMDb! (The Internet movie Database) The biggest movie database on the web!
‘The Day I Tried to Live’ is already up and trailers will follow shortly and ‘Chainmail’ will be added this week! 
Go here; http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1361613/

and trailers on Youtube;
http://www.youtube.com/user/ChanceEncounters
John

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The schedule for the ‘Zero Film Festival’ is up and ‘The Day I Tried to Live’ will be showing on Wednesday, December 3rd 1:25pm at the Downtown Independent Theater in Los  Angeles the week long film festival will be showcasing inspiring zero budget films from around the world at varied venues in the L.A area.

To our fans, friends and loved ones and nearest and dearest,  thank you so much for your support in 2008 its been quite a year

Cheers

John and Rich

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‘The Day I Tried to Live’ will be playing at what looks like one of the last Film festivals of a very successful  year for Chance Encounters. Between Dec 1st -6th ‘The Day I Tried to Live’ will play at it’s third film festival this year after selection at The Portobello Film Festival in London and a Award winning turn at the AOF (Action on film) Film Festival in Pasadena, L.A. The ‘Zero  Film Festival’ will be showcasing it’s  first annual Festival seeking to find innovative filmmakers from around the world highlighting truly independent zero budget films. ‘The Day I Tried to Live’ has been officially selected and will be screening in the next couple of weeks! Look out for latest info of day, venue and time! Go here to view their website;

www.zerofilmfest.com/

John

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‘Chainmail’ has just been accepted at the ‘Sefton Short Film Festival’ or the ‘S2F2′ for short! The short film will be among 100 films to feature at the Film Festival held in Liverpool U.K on Friday October 10th starting at 1pm. The Film Festival specialises in Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror, it’s good to see Chainmail is still getting into Festivals One year on from it’s release and of course being shown on sky TV!

Thank you all for tuning in to watch ‘Chainmail’ on SKY 195! If you missed it heres your next chance! Come and watch it on the ‘BIG’ screen at this festival!

Heres all the info you need to know to get there;

www.s2f2.org.uk

Thanks for the continuing support from you all! 

John and Rich

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Our second film, our first short ‘Chainmail’ will premiere on Televison to audiences all over Europe including the UK. It will air this Sunday September the 14th on SKY Channel 195 at 10pm, on Propeller TV under the First Film Strand. There are some top quality films being shown on there so we’re happy to be a part of it.

Synopsis and pictures of the film of course can be found here. Further viewing of trailers for ‘Chainmail’ can be found at our Youtube link at the bottom of this page.

There was a lot of great music put together for the film by the likes of Stu E Skinner and Very Little Effort, Lana, and Darran Smith of Duppy. All these great musician’s links can be found at the bottom of this page.

Check out the ‘Cast and Crew’ for the performers of the film too they did a good a job!

So Tune in a watch if you can!!! 

John

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Our latest short film is at the website ‘The International Guerrilla Filmmakers Database’ (IGFdb)

link here; http://www.igfdb.com/news.php

The award we won at the AOF Film Festival; The Best Guerrilla film - The Xristos Award in July was named by the creator of the website itself and award winning Director Stan Harrington. His films such as ‘Bred in the bone’ and ‘The Craving Heart’ have won numerous awards and the AOF Film Festival made an award for new and up and coming talent to be awarded it each year at the Festival . The Xristos Award itself was named after and in honor of  Stan Harrington’s Father ‘Xristos Georgiadis’  an unsung artist of incredible talent. Please go to the above link for more info on his works.

Watch the award winning short ‘The Day I Tried to Live’ for FREE at the ‘Portobello Film Festival’ in London on SEPT 3rd!!!

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 Jonathan Chance
Along with his brother Richard, John Chance co-wrote their debut film The Veil, completing it in 2005, and secured a distributor for its release on DVD in January 2008. At the age of just 22, John assumed the roles of editor, co-star and assistant director on the project, and took on an additional workload of post production, sound mixing and establishment of the film’s “feel” with atmospheric sound and music.

Post-Veil, John and Richard went on to direct 2007’s Chainmail. The short, an example of what minimal actors and crew can accomplish with no money (just imagination and hard work!), showcases the brothers’ potential for what could be achieved in a second feature film with financial backing. An Official Selection at the 2007 AOF (Action On Film) Film Festival in L.A., and a finalist at the International Festival of Fantastic films in Manchester, England, its success continues with a showing on SKY Television’s Channel 195, reaching an audience of 8-14 million.

2008 has been a successful and productive year for the young filmmakers, with a critically acclaimed debut feature on DVD, a second film airing on a popular TV channel in Europe and the UK, and a recent Stateside win for their co-written eighteen-minute short, titled The Day I Tried To Live, which picked up “Best Guerilla Film-The Xristos Award” honors at AOF in July.

John is author of several short screenplays, a collaborator on four screenplays with Richard, and has just recently finished his first full-length feature screenplay.  The brothers are currently working on the script for their second feature film and are looking for agent representation and financing.

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