‘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

John Chance co-wrote with Richard their debut film ‘The Veil’ completed in 2005 which found it released on DVD on january of 2008 after finding a DVD distributer. In the films completion at just the age of 22 was Editor, played one of the lead roles and was Assistant Director on the project.
Various other roles in the film included the heavy work load of post production including Editing, sound mixing and making the feel for the movie with atmosphere in sound and music. John is author of a few short screenplays, co-writing four screenplays with Richard and just recently finished his first full length feature screenplay.Richard and John went on to direct ‘Chainmail’ together in 2007. ‘Chainmail’ was to be an example of what minimal actors and crew can do a taste if you will, of what can be accomplished with no money just (imagination and hard work!) and an idea of what can be done with ‘money’ put into a 2nd feature film with a budget. ‘Chainmail’ was Officially selected at the AOF Film Festival in L.A in 2007 and was a finalist at the International Festival of Fanatastic films at Manchester in the UK. Its success continues this year showing on SKY Televison’s 195 short film channel to be shown in the UK and Europe to a 8-14 million audience.
The Brothers have just completed a eighteen minute short titled The Day i Tried To Live’ another film John wrote with Richard. They are currently working on the script for their second feature film and are looking for financing sources for the project and an agent.

2008 has been a successful and consistent year for the young filmakers: With a highly commended debut feature on DVD, their second film airing on a popular tv channel in Europe and a their latest short film winning ‘Best Guerilla Film’ at it’s first film festival of the year the L.A based AOF (Action on film) Film Festival.

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 Richard Chance

Richard Chance wrote and directed ‘The Veil’ a low budget horror feature in 2005. Accompanied by only a few friends for minimal crew work and to play various characters Richard also starred as one of leading roles. The epic ambitious ‘Z’ budget film ‘The Veil’ is a psychological zombie chiller with a taste of Biological catastrophe or a post cold war disaster movie with bare knuckle raw edge which Nigel Buckland of Channel 4’s ‘Vids’ fame hails ‘The Veil Heralds the future of horror’ beakoning cult status, their debut may set to one day be up there with the greats for its innovative work with such minimal costs. ‘The Veil’ was filmed over a four year period over many weekends with Richard, brother John and finally Michael Himsworth completing the fold the three contending with many roles behind and on screen to make the film possible. Richard wrote their second film the short ‘Chainmail’ and is an accomplished author of three novels and Ten film scripts. Richard plays the lead role of ‘Chambers’ in ‘Chainmail’ battling the forces of evil from his living room.
Richard co-wrote with John their debut film ‘The Veil’ which found it’s way onto DVD in january of 2008 after finding a DVD distributer. Richard and John went on to direct ‘Chainmail’ together in 2007. It was Officially selected at the AOF Film Festival in California and was a finalist at the International Festival of Fantastic films at Manchester UK. Its success contines this year showing on SKY Televison’s 195 short film channel to be aired in the UK and Europe to a 8-14 million audience shortly.In 2008, The Brothers have just completed a eighteen minute short titled ‘The Day i Tried To Live’  Wrote and Directed and Produced Richard and Jonathan.  They are currently working on the script for their second feature film and are looking for financing sources for the project, and outside help from a agent. 2008 has been a consistent and successful year for the young filmakers; With one highly commended debut feature on DVD, their second film airing on a popular tv channel in Europe and a their latest short film at it’s first film festival of the year winning ‘Best Guerilla Film - The Xristos Award’  the L.A based AOF (Action on Film) Film Festival.

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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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Original photo by Richard Cross (c) Copyright 2008

Photo Art Design by Richard Chance

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