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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 Richard Chance

Richard is an accomplished author of three novels and ten film scripts, and is currently working with John on the script for their second feature film, for which they are seeking financing and agent representation. He wrote, directed and co-starred in 2005’s The Veil, minimally assisted by the cast and crew work of only a few friends.
The ambitiously epic, low-budget feature debut combines psychological zombie chills with biological catastrophe to create a post-Cold War disaster parable with a raw, bare-knuckle edge that Nigel Buckland of Channel 4’s Vids fame hails as “(heralding) the future of horror”, and its innovation under minimal cost beckons the kind of cult status lauded to its classic low-budget predecessors. Over a four-year period of many weekends, Richard, his brother/co-writer John and their friend Michael Himsworth assumed multiple roles on and off-screen to make The Veil possible, and it found its way onto DVD in January 2008 after finding a distributor.

Richard and John went on to co-direct Chainmail in 2007, which Richard wrote and starred in as “Chambers”, battling the forces of evil from his living room. It was an Official Selection at the AOF (Action On Film) Film Festival in California, and a finalist at the International Festival of Fantastic Films in Manchester, England. Its success continues, showing on SKY Television’s Channel 195 to an audience of 8-14 million.

2008 has been a productive and successful year for the young filmmakers, with one critically acclaimed debut feature on DVD, a second film airing on TV in the UK and Europe, and their latest winning “Best Guerilla Film-The Xristos Award” at its first film festival of the year. In July, the brothers celebrated a Stateside win at AOF for their co-written, produced and directed eighteen-minute short, titled The Day I Tried To Live, which was filmed on location in Spain and England.

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Written, Produced and Directed by

Richard Chance and Jonathan Chance

Narrated by Jim Mulcahy

Cast:

Survivor…………………………………..John Chance

Shadowman 1………………………….Michael Himsworth

Shadowman 2………………………….Chris Nicholls

Shadowman 3………………………….Craig Gardener

Older Survivor………………………….Jim Mulcahy

Crew:

Music by…………………………………..The Chance Brothers

Editing and Sound by……………….John Chance

Story by……………………………………Richard Chance & Jonathan Chance

Dialogue by……………………………….Richard Chance

Screenplay by…………………………..John Chance

Additional Lighting by………………..Emma Boutier

Visual Effects by……………………….Richard Chance

Make up Special Effects by……….R & J

Segment ‘Witch Watching’ by……Halo Ego Trip

Filmed on location in Calpe, Spain and England, UK.

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The 18 minute short film ‘The Day I Tried to Live’ recently picked up an award at the AOF Film Festival in Pasadena, L.A for ‘Best Guerilla Film’ will now have it’s London premiere showing first off at the ‘Portobello Film Festival’ opening at the end of August. The event will go on for two weeks showing a wide range of films at different locations in Portobello road to show people’s work.

The theme this year for the Festival is ‘Carnival’ which is pretty cool because our film does include a carnival scene in the streets of Spain.

The event is free so just show up if you can make it! So there you go, an award winning film to watch for free!

The Day I Tried to Live showing at the ‘PARADISE BAR’ London Filmakers Convention Part 2, Between 6-7pm
Wed, Sept 3RD Portobello Street, London

Be there!

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We did it! We won ‘The Best Guerilla Film’ after being nominated for the award for ‘The Day I Tried to Live’ at the AOF Film Festival in Pasadena, L.A. This is a huge acheivement for us,  we are delighted to get award and not only that but to receive it in person. The AOF Film Festival was one of the most friendliest festivals i’ve visited; from the Filmmakers at the events of films and the Awards night to founders and festival Directors Del Weston , Josh Neufeld and Michael Mahon that was showing his film ‘Strength and Honor’ there.

It was an all round warm Festival to go to and i met some interesting Directors, and people along the way! We will continue to promote ‘The Day I Tried to Live’ at more Festivals in the U.S.A, U.K, Europe and wherever will accept our film. So if you can come and watch our award winning film while it’s circulating!

We want to make interesting, original and innovative work; short and feature length with budget or without we’ll ride on…watch this space.

Like art immitating life, what a fantastic journey it was to travel thousands of miles alone, across to West Hollywood, Hollywood Blvd, Pasadena, L.A, and of course the O.C….and it was all well worth the while with some great surprises along the way. I couldn’t have gone to half the places without the help of a someone thank you Camie you’re a star!

John

 ’The Day I Tried to Live’ - Best Guerilla Film - The Xristos Award

Awarded to Richard Chance & Jonathan Chance

The Action on Film Film Festival 2008;

www.aoffest.com

Are you with a Festival, a Producer or funding company? If so get in contact with us for a copy of some of our works or/and speculate future ‘bigger’ projects we would like to develop into a reality.

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