Wide Eyed produces live action, animation, documentaries, live event films & music videos.
Recent Projects Include: Capturing the band kotkidwa's 'Staycations' project in collaboration with The National trust. Over the next months we will be releasing short films and music videos following the bands recording process as they record the album on National Trust properties. Here is the first film...
This winter I also produced a short stripped down performance by Kotki Dwa called Deep Deep Trouble.
Recently I worked for YCN - working with clients such as NSPCC and Arsenal football directing the filming of both commercials. I also worked for director Lynne Ramsay, on her new short.
Commissioned Based Showreel
Hello From Geoff - The Film Maker.
I am a wide eyed filmmaker; writer, director and producer. I have completed a short film " THE THINGS I THINK ABOUT." it is currently at festivals and has been well received, it has been voted 'film of the month' by Kino London and played at the Comedy Shorts in Manchester. I am developing a series with the same character.
My other films include, BREATHE- UK Film council Funded, ISABELLA 07 (NAHEMI Creative Film Maker and Cinematography award 2007, Vividas and Pinewood Studio Comp 2007, RTS Regional Award 2008), MY GRANDMA (First Light Best Film 2004).
Fiction Showreel
Tandem Tales Project
I filmed my pilot " TANDEM TALES;" where I cycled to Edinburgh looking for people to pick up. I would like to pursue this project and take this idea across various part of the country, interviewing people and discovering places. www.tandemtales.co.uk
Currently - Projects in Development.
I have several projects in development, both Fiction and Documentary.
SHORTS
CLOSE- Short, dark yet tender drama about a young boy who discovers who his father is, through his death, finally finding the closeness he's craved.
THE THINGS HE THINKS ABOUT - A series of short, humorous but dark films about an obsessive and worried character, ED and the various things he thinks about. The first film, The things I think about' is currently at film festivals.
LOCAL HERO - A drama about Joe and has his return back from war to his small rural town
FAREWELL (WHAT WOULD YOU DO?) A one shot film about a man's journey out to sea. From the village to the shoreline and into boat. The villager watch as he leaves...
FEATURES
EVERYTHING FALLS A PART - Ed realises he is ill. Ed realises he is going to become a dad. Ed's life was pretty uneventful until now. We follow Ed on a chaotic and worrying journey as his life seems to be falling a part. This is a moving, strangely humorous and poignant story as Ed is trying to work out where it went and "how it all came to this..."
DRUMMER AND THE HORN- A colourful, indie pop drama about the most unlikely of duets; two young outsiders from completely different backgrounds find each other and through music and friendship are able to unleash their anxieties, fears and hopes.
LOOKING FOR LENKA - A young man goes to rekindle a romantic fling in Hungry only to find the girl, Lenka, terminally ill. He risks loosing everything as he finds himself staying for much longer to become her carer.
DOCUMENTARY
DO WII HAVE A PROBLEM?- Documentary looking at the quirky yet serious side of the gaming world.
TANDEM TALES- An online and documentary project where I am off on a Tandem and singly will travel putting my trust into social networking and media technologies trying to find people to help me pedal on my Tandem.
