SF4813 Cast and Crew Credits

Brendan O'Neill                       Writer, Producer, Director

Neil Oseman                            Director of Photography

Adam Hale                                Editor

Merlyn Miller Rice                    Associate Producer

Matt Harley                                Associate Producer

Stewart Addison                      Associate Producer

David Tomlin                            Director - 2nd camera unit

Chantal Feliu Gurri                  Assistant Editor

Ella Carmen                             Production Assistant

Colin Smith                               Gaffer

Oliver Rosetti                            DIT/Camera Assistant

Jay Somerville                          Best Boy

Nicola Dale                               Sound Recordist

Dennis Baudin                         VFX Lead

Mary Lapena                             VFX assistant

Paul Woolley                            Runner / Driver

Kerris Charles                         Make Up Artist

Oliver Woolley                          Continuity/Stills Photographer

Sorin Russu                             Stills Photographer

Ian Jones                                  Stills Photographer

Anneliese Cherrington           1st Assistant Director

Rosie Pooley                            Clapper

Matt Katz                                    Post Sound supervisor

Joseph Harper                         Post Sound assistant

Nicola Dale                               Post Sound runner

Ed Stone                                   Production Assistant / Making of video

Dan Hunt                                   2nd Unit Camera Assistant

Matt Harley                                Military uniforms and props

Jack Harley                               Military uniforms and props assistant

Composer                                Hans Hess

Dominic Carver                        Script Editor

Actors

Michael Parle                           Priest

Isla Eleri Ure                            Girl in church

Louise Stokes                          Church cleaner

Ian Brooker                               Officer - GCHQ

Nick Lancaster                         Viking Section Leader - GCHQ

Sean Connolly                         CIA Agent - GCHQ / Voice Over

Laura Edghill                            Viking Section Officer

Roger Harding                         Controller

Greg Hobbs                              SWAT officer

Jack Richardson                     Boyfriend in coffee shop

Shannon Anthony                    Girlfriend in coffee shop

Maura Judge                            Woman in church

Paul Woolley                            Mysterious Agent - GCHQ

Phil Lee                                     Decryption Specialist - GCHQ

Matt Harley                                SWAT team member

Jack Harley                               SWAT team member

Paul Woolley                            SWAT team member

Executive Producer Daniel Martin Eckhart Associate Producers Zoltan and Sally Szarka Keith and Diane Marsden Jonathan Turner Rebecca De Fargues Peter Spencer Paul Woolley Craig Morton Stella Harvey Kevin O'Neill Russell Southam Thank You Roberto Savage Ivan Levene Jennifer Coward Malachi McColl Justin Metti Helen Bang Tom Bradshaw John Wood Margaret Schmueck Neil Evans David Moore Andy Conway Jon Bounds Brian MacEvilly Maura Judges Rob Brown Dr. Stephen Potts Simon Cox Merlyn Rice Matthew Harley Leanne Stoddart Emma McAllister Jim Judges Jody Whittle-Wyeth Lauren Davies Michelle Hands Sarah Farmer Paul Murphy Debra Jane Haywood Drew Roper Ella Carmen Mickey Greaney Special Thanks To Reverent Mary Gilbert Dr. Birgit Kehrer Colin Williamson Dan Burwood Erin Connolly www.pannyhire.co.uk Trinity Studios Birmingham Dennis Cluley Vaisala Ltd Pip Piper Film Birmingham Martin Simms Sindy Campbell www.ChangeKitchen.co.uk www.UKFilmLocation.com Little Big Film Company Shooting People Billy Bannister www.mediadoghire.com Andrew Whiteoak Sam Cousins Paul Barr The Rectory Bar, Birmingham Andy Purvis Stirling Bar and Cafe

The "Spielberg of Hereford" signs up as Director of Photography

Great news! Neil Oseman once described by The Guardian as "the Spielberg of Hereford" signs up as Director of Photography on my Sci-Fi project.

Neil Oseman - "the Spielberg of Hereford"

He joins experienced sound designer Matt Katz of Noisegate Media who is our Post Production sound supervisor.

The crowdfunding campaign has less than a week to go. Please select a perk and donate by following this link.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sf4813/x/8189 

My Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for the Sci-Fi film is now live. Please select a perk and donate by following this link.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sf4813/x/8189 

Here We Go Again! - SF4813

I'm now in pre-production to have another go at the London Sci-Fi Society 48hour filmmaking competition over the weekend of 6th and 7th of April 2013. I'll be directing this time and no doubt producing a lot as well but already have the makings of a good team. Guillermo Del Toro is on the jury so I'm going to have to pull a really big rabbit out of the hat to try and win this one. The Facebook group for the project is here if you wish to take part.

Around Again shoot. May 2012.

Fortunately some of the people who helped me with our World War 2 themed film Around Again are keen to have another go. We managed to get tremendous buy-in and Esprit d' Corps on that project -  the second time I have put together 50 strong cast and crews to help make nano budget, high production value films - so I'm hoping for more of the same.

Some of the Around Again crew in the bunker below Ort Cafe in Balsall Heath

I'm very pleased that talented crew like sound man Sirajuddin 'Sam' Cousins, cameraman Richard Twilton, pyrotechnics maestro Matt Harley as well as my good friend and co-writer Dominic Carver have signed up for more 48hr madness.

I'm also hopeful that I can work again with Roger Harding - the scary interrogator in Internalised our 2011 competition entry. Internalised recently made Film of the Day on Brett Gerry's blog.

Michael Parle who won Best Foreign Actor at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival for his performance in Ivan Kavanagh's brilliant Tin Can Man is also hoping to take part. Tin Can Man also won a Dublin Film Critics Circle award at the 2012 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.

I'm also very pleased that Isla Eleri Ure who won Best Actor for her own film Passengers at the 2012 Underwire Festival has also agreed to join the team.

I'm hoping to warm up for the Sci-Fi competition by doing another 48hr competition which takes place at the beginning of March as part of the Stoke Your Fires festival.

Serendipitously I've been asked to be on a Staffordshire University sponsored panel at Stoke Your Fires to talk about film in the region. I was put forward by Tim Beasley who runs a great locations agency called UKFilmLocation.com. I'm very pleased to be invited on to my first film festival panel especially as my friend and mentor Professor Roger Shannon is on the same panel.

Incidentally Roger is presenting the Egyptian film El Shooq (Lust) as part of his Departure Lounge series at the Midlands Arts Centre on 23rd of February. It was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards and was directed by our mutual friend - the Pharaoh of Film Khaled El Hagar. Please note that this event is invitation only.

Last but not least I'd like to thank all the people who have donated towards my next production.  I couldn't do it without them so will credit their names with pride. If you haven't donated then you still can via this link to my Indiegogo Crowdfunding camapign.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sf4813/x/8189

Thats all for now folks!

Sponsor My Next Short And Get An IMDB credit!

I'm looking for philanthropic sponsors for my next short which I will be directing. £100 pounds + gets you an IMDB exec or associate producer credit. £20 gets you a Thank You in the credits but smaller contributions are also welcome. All who contribute at £20 and above will get an invite to cast and crew screenings, DVD etc.

Here's Internalised a film I produced for the London Sci-Fi society 48hour filmmaking competition 2011. It was made with a volunteer cast and crew of 50. All the cast and crew were fed via an In-Kind deal I set up with fab veggie caterers ChangeKitchen. I hope it gives you an idea of the kind of production value I aspire too.


Internalised from Brendan O'Neill on Vimeo.

Here are some stills from my most recent 2012 film Around Again. This was made for the 2012 London Sci-Fi society 48hour filmmaking competition with a cast and crew of 50.

Around Again shoot May 2012

Stormtrooper re-enactor: Around Again shoot May 2012

On set in the bunker below Ort Cafe: Around Again shoot May 2012

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November News

Producer Debbie Aston and the Finders Keepers production team have decided to postpone crowdfunding the film until the spring and then go straight into production - hopefully following a successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. Kickstarter have just made it easier for UK filmmakers to fund their projects. This makes more sense from a social media marketing point of view. The fact that Christmas is just around the corner also means that people are going to be more conscious of spending over the next months.

Sherlock Holmes star Big Joe Egan starred in the Finders Keepers trailer

In other news I'm delighted to welcome actress Louise Osborne to the team as associate producer. Louise has worked both as an actress and in production roles in Hollywood. She has worked with people like Dr. Dolittle director Steve Carr and actress Catherine Zeta-Jones. Louise is originally from Ireland but has a local connection here in Birmingham as she is married to Rock legend Ozzy Osbourne's son Louis. For those of you who are interested in acting for screen Louise runs an excellent course based at the Midlands Arts Centre. She can be contacted about this through her Acting for Screen website.

I'm also delighted to welcome art director and production designer Jude Hanly. Jude did wonders for us on the Film Division Around Again WWII themed shoot back in May.

Around Again bunker scene set by Jude Hanly

My good friend and award winning scriptwriter Dominic Carver is also attached as script editor. Dom was recently signed up by a literary agent so I'm delighted about that - especially as it puts some wheels back on my Roaring Forties sit-com idea which we're co-writing.

Dom is also responsible for the new script for the out-of-competition version of Around Again which will be its own standalone story. It was always our intention to employ a shoot once use many approach given the effort of putting together a 50 strong cast and crew to shoot it. The good news is that it is being worked on in post-production so I'm hoping we'll see it commence its festival run soon.

I'm planning to do some self-directed shorts over the winter and have started to scout locations for various story ideas. I'm also building a good relationship with the nice folks at UKFilmLocation.com who have been very helpful in the past and have some great locations.

Last but not least I have decided to go ahead with trying to crowdfund a graphic novel based on my Scampenstein feature animation idea. The idea is to create interest in the story via the graphic novel as a means of then making it into a feature film. You can follow progress on Twitter or Facebook or read the Scampenstein blog.

Thats all for now.

Brendan

Strange Tangential Networking Payoff, Other News and Praise!

Ulysses O'Mooney

I'm very pleased that a colleague of mine in the Producers' Forum West Midlands has introduced me to a literary agent relative of theirs who works for a leading agency in New York. He has promised me a read which has given me an incentive to really get down to finishing my novel. It all happened quite by chance - I mentioned it whilst discussing what I'd been up to writing/producing-wise and future plans i.e. making a first feature.

A cover design done by my talented pal Annelise Francis of Meenokawaii Design

The novel is called Ulysses O'Mooney and is a tale about a young alien who crash lands in Ireland in 1969 and has to find a way back home both helped and hindered by eccentric locals, the U.S and Soviet superpowers, friendly talking animals, other aliens -  both benign and malevolent, various mythological creatures, an ex-Nazi drug smuggler, a retired Scotland Yard detective and a time-warp stranded aviatrix. 

I'd describe it as a Poitín whiskey fuelled romp through time, space and the Irish countryside. 

You can read three excerpts from it on Wattpad. I'm particularly proud of the Rathmore Rambler one but its best if you read the beginning bit first, then the bit introducing Big Tom McClinchey - the toughest Tom Cat in Ireland and then the Rathmore Rambler excerpt when our hero Ulysses is attacked. 

Its all pretty out there and has been described as both whimsical and magic realist!

Balsall Heath Little Theatre Project

In other news I organized a comedy fundraiser for the Balsall Heath Little Theatre project (@opwtheatre). The very talented and lovely Miss Barbara Nice headlined and was supported by a variety of other local comedians - all of this compered very ably by Rachel Sambrooks. 

Big shout out therefore to my fellow comedy course alumni Alex Crowther, Albert Smith and Ben Goodwin and also a big thank you to Helen Sylvester, Patrick Draper, cutlery guru Ian Crawford and Edinburgh award winner Johnny Sorrow plus all who attended. Numbers weren't great but it WAS a great night. Thanks too to artist Ildi Nagy too for helping me with the Zoodio space.

Around Again

The news on Around Again - Film Division's latest opus is that Stewart Addison who directed is preparing a directors cut which has to be ready by end of July when his new daughter arrives!

The feedback from some people who've seen the competition cut has been great. 

Dean Bamford in Around Again

"Sublime work, Brendan, rendered all the more astonishing by the lack of resources - particularly the period piece. To make a war film of such stunning calibre defies comprehension yet you've pulled it off beautifully. Time to make your feature. Simple as that. You're already a better filmmaker than most of the pretenders out there. Get out there and make your masterpiece. Well done to you on multiple levels."

                                                                                        Terry McMahon. Director.

“I loved it, very atmospheric, the young girl looked amazing, timeless, congratulations”

                                                                                        Michael Smiley Actor (Kill List)

 

  Thats all for now folks. x