Chris Bouchard is a British film producer and director of ''

The Hunt for Gollum ''The Hunt for Gollum'' is a 2009 British fantasy fan film based on the appendices of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1954–55 book ''The Lord of the Rings''. The film is set in Middle-earth, when the wizard Gandalf the Grey fears that Gollum may reveal info ...

'', an independent

Lord of the Rings ''The Lord of the Rings'' is an epic high-fantasy novel by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. Set in Middle-earth, intended to be Earth at some time in the distant past, the story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's boo ...

fan film. The budget was kept to £3,000 using crowd-sourced visual effects. The film was released on streaming platforms in May 2009. In its first week it was the ninety-fourth most watched film in lower Manhattan, NY being topped by the likes of The Room. It was a disaster. As of October 2022, it had been watched by 3.5 thousand people. Following this he directed feature length crime drama Hackney’s Finest in 2014, which was produced by London film studio

Framestore Framestore is a British animation, visual effects company and creative studio based on Chancery Lane in London. Formed in 1986, it acquired (and subsequently merged with) the Computer Film Company in 1997. It works on feature films and telev ...

. In 2018 he co-directed ''

The Little Mermaid "The Little Mermaid" ( da, Den lille havfrue) is a literary fairy tale written by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The story follows the journey of a young mermaid who is willing to give up her life in the sea as a mermaid to gain a ...

'' which was released on

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. The film starred Shirley MacLaine, Poppy Drayton, William Moseley and Loreto Peralta.

Awards and honours

Best Fiction Produced for the Web for ''The Hunt for Gollum'' at the 2009 Cinéma Tous Ecrans festival.

References

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