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  • Strange Tales - HAPPY 4 YEARS + Season 3 Update

    We are 4 years old - in that time we have released a total of 7 short tales and now after a hiatus during the pandemic we are just over a month away from releasing the 1st new Tale of Season 3!!! It has been a busy few months again with Watchers productions - busily working behind the scenes on the next run of Strange Tales. So what is the latest on finally getting new Tales to you! First piece of news is we have decided to release each tale once they are individualy complete, instead of waiting for the full run, that way we get to release new content sooner. So with that in mind and the schedule that everyone is working to - between now and the end of 2023 Season 3 will be fully released. But when you ask? Good question - once we know release date/s we will happily announce them. What I can tell you iis the first of Season 3 to be released and to relaunch the channel is JUST MEAT. Which is in post production - and then the countdown to launch will begin!! starring Hannah Celyn Griffiths Victoria George-Veale Samuel Rush ​ Tommy, a Pizza bike delivery driver, is held hostage at the hands of a disturbed woman called Catrin and her girlfriend Zoe. But not all is as it seems… The BIG NEWS is from ALL ALONE, Not By Myself. You may remember that the cast recorded there dialogue last June and that we were working on this as a motion graphic novel. Well things have developed in a very exciting way. We can now announce that this will be a animated short - it will be the first Animated Strange Tale. Joining Megan Lloyd our character designer who is stepping up as assistant animator / background artist on the project is Animator Matthew Lee from Tealeaves Pictures. Matthew Lee is a freelance illustrator, animator and actor based in Bridgend and Cardiff. He started drawing since the age of 8. In 2007, he joined Bridgend Youth Theatre at the Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl, in order to help him socialise more due to his austism. Since then he has been doing a variety of creative activities: performing amateur theatre, trained as an art department assistant and studying animation. Matthew has worked with Watchers productions in the past, collaborating as a supporting artist and animator for the web series Whovians in 2016. With Matthew on board the production this Tale is looking very exciting and very different. We are thrilled to have him on board and already just with a few tests we can see the project come alive!! Matthew comes on board with a fully imagined animatic and he is now in production on delivering the pencil animation version of the film. Once that is locked it moves on to sound design and much more! LOCKED to be directed by Valiant Films Productions, Teddy Smith is barrelling through pre-production after numerous set-backs, throughout the pandemic. Shooting locations have been finalised. Sets are being built. Shooting schedule is being planned for summer 2023. Our cast of Angharad Ford, Thom Robin & Rob Murphy are sure to hit the mark in this orwellian dystopia! DINNER DATE Pre-production continues for the filming of Christopher Maxwell's Dinner Date, to be directed by Terrance Marshman-Edwards. We are delighted to announce filming will take place at the beginning of September, and are equally delighted to announce two of our main cast members. Joshua Ogle plays David Josh trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and has appeared in short films Skin (2013) and The Inquiry (2016). More recently he has performed in numerous productions with Cardiff's Everyman Theatre. His dream Dinner Date would be cocktails, homemade lasagna, and a selection of boardgames Liz Keech plays Jen Liz is a singer and actor from Cwmbran, South Wales. This is her second outing with Watchers having appeared as Abigail in the 2020 audio production of A Christmas Carol [produced in association with Valiant Films and Dramatic Moose Productions]. She has previously been cast in short films Connections (Adele Cordner) and A Dagger in Your Mind (Theatre AdHoc). A regular performer with local companies including Peculiar Productions, Theatre AdHoc and Newport Playgoers Society, Liz was lucky enough to play Becky Sharp in the NPS 2022 production of Vanity Fair which had a short run at the Minack Theatre, Cornwall. Liz is thrilled to be cast in Dinner Date and is looking forward to starting filming! Her dream Dinner date would be on a private balcony overlooking the sea in Southern Italy, a lovely warm evening packed with Italian food and plenty of red wine. Further casting will be announced in due course. STAND BY - New Tales are coming!!!!

  • Strange Tales - Season 3 Production Update.

    Hello, Happy 2023 and we are all go this end! So a quick update of where we are with bringing you the new batch of Strange Tales. We have four confirmed - and a possible fifth - film coming in 2023. So where are we? Well, 50% have finished production and 50% are in pre-production as we type this. All Alone, Not By Myself : Full voice cast record has wrapped. Project Sound Supervisor and all round legend Andrew White is set to start on the mix and sound design. Andrew has worked with us at Watchers for years on numerous productions - all the way back on Whovians as the series sound supervisor. It’s great having him back on board in a big way on this pseudo-animated project. Audio plays a massive part on this production. The other massive part of this undertaking is the visuals - which began a few months back in 22. Early character design and art concepts are under way with the talented Megan Lloyd. Megan is a young student, artist and has been in Whovians as a young girl - she acted in Bradley and The Doctor and now here she is again behind the lens. Her designs are superb and the film will have an anime feel. Like we have said before, this is not a full animation, it is a motion graphic novel - it is a very exciting and original idea from our own Watcher Matthew Ford, who has written it (his screenplay has won numerous awards), so we thought there has to be a way we can make it. So, this is what we came up with, and it is also Matthew’s debut as director. The film presently is in the edit - the dialogue has been cut and currently we are on version three of the animatic version of the film. We are locking animatics in June for the animation process to then fully continue throughout the summer - looking to release at the later end of 2023. Just MEAT: This film wrapped principal photography over the weekend of September 10th in 2022, with a pick up shoot at the end of November. We have voice roles to record still, and the film is with the talented Editor Emily McAinsh (formally Emily Lawrence - she recently got married, big congrats!). Emily has cut a number of projects with us - Deliver Us From GEE and Second Chances, to name two. She is an accomplished professional and we are very lucky to have her back on this Tale. We expect to get this film finished in the next few months. LOCKED: This is being co-produced by ourselves and the talented Teddy Smith over at Valiant Films. The cast is set and this long suffering production - from reschedule after reschedule, cast changes, all due to the pandemic over the last few years. To get this project finally in front of cameras will be fantastic - we first announced this Tale in 2018! Meetings are about to happen and we are looking at April/May to film. Hooray!! Dinner Date: Talking of long stuck in Covid hell! The second of our long coming ventures is Dinner Date. This one should be next to shoot. We have a cast all ready to go - The film is now a co-production with Dramatic Moose productions, from a script by producer Christopher Maxwell. Watchers’s own Terrance Marshman-Edwards is to direct. The stars are aligning and we are looking at a March shoot. So, for now that’s all the news we have and here we go......

  • WATCHERS Productions & STRANGE TALES IS BACK!!

    After a hiatus of nearly 3 years!! With COVID and the world coming to a halt, we had to shut down all productions - with exception of those we could do remotely - our Film Show Podcast and our first audio drama, A Christmas Carol! There were lockdowns, Christmas being cancelled, then society crashing to a halt again, again... and again! So, after numerous attempts trying to get productions going once more, in 2021 we decided to take a step back and wait, prepare, and now we are indeed BACK!! For most of 2022 we have been in pre-production on a number of Strange Tales. Behind the curtains we have been writing, casting and prepping the return of Strange Tales. We have some older pre-pandemic Tales that are finally reaching shooting, we have some fresh ideas, and also had to reassess, postpone, or cancel a number of ideas. But before we get into what’s new and what’s coming very soon, let’s look at what has happened in the last 12 months or so since we shut down production. We have had success in numerous Film Festivals around the world. To name a few highlights.: Schrodinger, written by Xander Grant, was selected to be screened over in the big apple at the Lift Off New York Film Festival. Deliver Us From GEE, has grown strength to strength and continues to be selected, such as being part of the Swansea Fringe Festival and nominated for Best Comedy, and Best Sci-Fi at the Cannes Short Film Festival. During the time away from all things Watchers, us producers have been busy with other projects. Terrance Marshman-Edwards has recently directed a production of Alice in Wonderland for Peculiar Productions, and was involved in rehearsed readings in Newport and Worcester for a new play called One Night With Marilyn. At the end of 2021 and the beginning of this year, Rhys Jones worked with Moonlight Productions as Associate Producer / Post-Production Supervisor and helped them release the first series of Long Shots. And Matthew Ford has had a script commissioned to be produced as part of the BBC's next season of It's My Shout short films. SO now the Watchers are back, what do we have coming up? A lot, and enough news to finally share. Season 3 of Strange Tales will see at least 5 new stories. The first three planned to go into production are each written and directed by one of the Watchers. They are called - All Alone, Not by Myself, Just Meat, and Mortification All Alone, Not by Myself Written & directed by Matthew Ford. Starring Linda Bailey & Ben Wilson June 2013. A Cardiff Council employee visits a tenant whose Housing Benefit has stopped, as she did not return her Single Person Discount form. The tenant, however, is not alone. Influenced by the writing of M.R. James and Susan Hill, All Alone, Not by Myself is atmospheric, dread-fueled horror set in a Welsh capital hit by austerity and Welfare Reform. All Alone, Not by Myself is in production now. This is very different creative step for Watchers. The short film is a first for us, it’s animation, a moving graphic novel. The Cast has already wrapped, recorded all their dialogue, and the film has moved into post-production. . Just Meat Written & directed by Rhys Jones Starring Victoria George-Veale, Hannah Celyn-Griffiths and Samuel Rush Tommy, a Pizza bike delivery driver, is held hostage at the hands of a disturbed woman called Catrin and her girlfriend Zoe. But not all is as it seems… Just Meat is based on an old student film by Rhys Jones; he is producing this film, and cameras are set to roll in mid-September. Mortification Written & directed by Terrance Marshman-Edwards How well do you know your friends? Who’s most likely to get drunk, tell a lie, or even steal from you? A new online game will help you find out... but do you really want to know? Based on an idea Terrance had to try and get something made during lockdown, Mortification is currently in pre-production. Looking to film in early 2023, we have two long in pre-production shorts (both of which were planned to film way back in 2020): Dinner Date and LOCKED. Dinner Date Written by Christopher Maxwell and directed by Terrance Marshman-Edwards. David lives alone and is trying to get himself out into the dating world. He’s invited Jen around for dinner to show off his cooking skills and to please his pestering mother. As the night rolls on, the two laugh and bond, but Jen suspects David might be keeping something from her. Dinner Date is written by Christopher Maxwell of Dramatic Moose Productions, who will also co-produce this film. Unfortunately, due to the time this project spent waiting for the pandemic to ease, we have lost the original director, but Terrance Marshman-Edwards will now co-produce and direct this tale. LOCKED Written by Eleonora Mignoli and directed by Teddy Smith. Starring Angharad L Ford as Kay Starr, Thom Robins as Peter, and Rob Murphy as Alfred Wyre. In the future, Justice is delegated to machines: infallible and objective, these AI dispense fair punishments. Kay is accused by her neighbour of dropping trash on their lawn. It's a civil infraction, and while it was only an oversight on Kay's part, she's charged with a small fine. Kay is about to leave when her hand is locked, and the machine accuses her of murder – of somebody Kay has never met. Her only chance at survival is to prove her innocence, but while the AI begins drawing a net of guilt around her, we're left asking ourselves if she’s as innocent as she looks. The long awaited LOCKED, from a script by the talented Eleonora Mignoli. Eleonora is a writer and director based in Sheffield. Before moving to the UK in 2014, she lived for three years in Australia, where she gained an Advanced Diploma in Screenwriting at the Sydney Film School. When not reading, drawing or patting strangers’ dogs, she can be found working on her most recent projects, which include directing short films as one half of the collective Leo and The Bears, writing sci-fi screenplays (like the award-winning BBC short, Rory Romantic) and editing her debut novel, Oneirika. Teddy Smith returns to Strange Tales (having previously directed Second Chances). Over the past few years, Ted has focused and dealt with PTSD, Depression, Anxiety and loss. The highlight of his time behind the camera was working on Whovians with Watchers Productions and on STFU and Bitten with Big Rich Productions. For now, that’s all the news we have, and a slate of content that brings us up to the end of 2023! STAND BY FOR ACTION........

  • Watchers Update - Summer 2021

    As with everything at the moment - COVID has slowed us down and to be honest we have just taken our feet off the gas and slowed down and taken the time to chill and also look towards future goals - which is a lot of exciting stuff we cant talk about (mainly because they might not happen!! - keep your fingers crossed!) However we are working on pre-production on two new Strange Tales and a possible third to all go before the cameras this year and looking to release all at the same time just before Christmas 2021. The two we are confirming to be filmed in 2021 are two long time in development / covid hell - but we are determined to get them made this year finally. They are Dinner Date & LOCKED. Dinner Date - written by Christopher Maxwell and to be Directed by Ellen jane Thomas. David lives alone and is trying to get himself out into the dating world. He’s invited Jen around for dinner to show off his cooking skills and to please his pestering mother. As the night rolls on, the two laugh and bond, but Jen suspects he might be keeping something from her. Dinner Date is written by Christopher Maxwell of Dramatic Moose productions who have worked with us on a number of productions now. Ellen Jane Thomas will Direct this Tale, Ellen is an actress with TV presenting and directing credits under her belt, having worked with BBC Wales and Made Television in these fields. But her first love is performance, experiencing working with Channel 4, National Theatre Wales and BBC Two Wales. Ellen won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the It's My Shout awards in 2017 for her role as Tanvi in Rory Romantic, and can currently be seen online in BBC Writersroom sketch Porta-LOLS. This is just about to enter pre-production and to be cast. LOCKED written by Eleonora Mignoli and to be directed by Teddy Smith In the future, Justice is delegated to machines: infallible and objective, these AI dispense fair punishments. Kay is accused by her neighbour of dropping trash on their lawn. It's a civil infraction, and while it was only an oversight on Kay's part, she's charged with a small fine. Kay is about to leave when her hand is locked, and the machine accuses her of murder – of somebody Kay has never met. Her only chance at survival is to prove her innocence, but while the AI begins drawing a net of guilt around her, we're left asking ourselves if she’s as innocent as she looks. The long awaited LOCKED from a script by the talented Eleonora Mignoli. Eleonora is a writer and director based in Sheffield. Before moving to the UK in 2014, she lived for three years in Australia, where she gained an Advanced Diploma in Screenwriting at the Sydney Film School. When not reading, drawing or patting strangers’ dogs, she can be found working on her most recent projects, which include directing short films as one half of the collective Leo and The Bears, writing sci-fi screenplays (like the award-winning BBC short Rory Romantic) and editing her debut novel Oneirika. The Director/Producer on this film sees the return of Teddy Smith to Strange Tales, who Directed Second Chances. Over the past few years, Ted has focused and dealt with PTSD, Depression, Anxiety and Loss. The highlight of his time behind the camera was working on Whovians with Watchers Productions and on STFU and Bitten with Big Rich Productions. This was all set to shoot last September, but we went into a local lockdown in our area and of course postponed - luckily we still have our cast all still attached and awaiting the GO! Who are Sophie Moore as Kay Starr, Thom Robins as Peter and Rob Murphy as Alfred Wyre. In other news - over the last few months we have had a lot of succes on the Festival circuit with the last Tale - Deliver Us From Gee, a joint production with the team over at Dramatic moose productions. So far the film has been selected for the BAFTA Cymru qualifying Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, Midwest Sci-Fi Short Film Festival. The film has WON 3 awards at two festivals - at London Shorts it Won Best Sci-Fi and at FantaSci Short Film Festival it Won Best Ensemble Cast & Best Comedy. We are extremly proud of this film and the attention it is gaining and hope it contiues throughout its festival run, Massive congrats to all the Cast and Crew involved.

  • On Reflection, Looking Back On 2020 - Production/Watchers Update

    Well, I think it's safe to say that 2020 hasn't gone exactly as we planned it. That said, we were able to get some content produced during this year. We started the year off with the final filming day (for principal photography, at least) of Deliver Us From Gee. Two scenes- one set in a restaurant, the other in a call-centre- were completed, with Samuel Rush, Linda Bailey, Kelvin Dale-Greaves, and Matthew Fisher joining us for the day. We had one last day of filming at the beginning of March for some pick-ups, but we were fortunately able to get all of the footage needed before circumstances changed... On Valentine's Day, we released our sixth Strange Tale: Schrödinger. Written by Xander Grant and directed by our own Rhys Jones, this philosophical two-hander about the nature of love was sensitively played by Gavin Rand and Victoria George-Veale. We were also very pleased that Schrödinger was selected for the Lift-Off Global Network Sessions 2020. At the end of February, Watcher Terrance Marshman-Edwards directed a stage production of comedy-thriller A Tomb With A View for Peculiar Productions, raising £2,370 for Simpson's Memory Box Appeal (SiMBA). And then March 23rd came around and the whole of the UK was put into lockdown. Given the situation with COVID-19 and the advice given to minimize the spread of the disease (plus two core members of the Watchers being advised to shield until mid-August), it's made planning for future filming a little difficult. We were able to release Deliver Us From Gee on Saturday 11th April (Easter Saturday). We figured, given the subject matter, it would be appropriate... We were also delighted that Deliver Us From Gee was nominated in the No Budget Short Film category at the Wales International Film Festival. However, we have not been idle during this time. We have been working on and finalising some new screenplays so that, when we are able to start filming safely again, we will have some new scripts to work on. Pre-production has also continued (where possible) on Locked and Dinner Date to ensure that these can get filmed as soon as we can. We also continued to produce our Film Show with special Lockdown Episodes. But whilst we were not able to create many new Strange Tales for you this year, we had several of our previous short films recognised in various national (and international!) festivals. Brand New Beginnings and Epimetheus were both official selections for the BAFTA-qualifying Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, whilst Epimetheus was also selected for the Twisted Tales Festival and the Dead In Decatur International Film Festival (in Illinois)! Home was also selected for the Lift-Off Global Network Sessions and the Lift-Off Global Network First-Time Filmmaker Sessions (as it was Watcher Tez’s film directorial debut) Watcher Matt was a finalist in the 13horror.com Film & Screenplay Contest for his screenplay Killing The Music (available as an eBook via Amazon), which was also a nominee for the Best Short Horror Screenplay award at the Grim North Screenplay Festival. We rounded the year off with a wonderful co-production with our good friends and associates at Valiant Films and Dramatic Moose Productions with a new audio adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Adapted by Watchers Tez and Matt with Matthew Fisher of Dramatic Moose, and directed by Teddy Smith, we are very pleased to have been able to use several actors who have appeared in previous Watchers productions. A Christmas Carol was released in three parts between December 22nd-December 24th, with an omnibus edition also available. We'd like to say a massive Thank You to everyone who has supported us through this very different and difficult year. Also, a huge Thank You to all key and essential workers who have put themselves in the line of fire to keep things running during the pandemic. What will 2021 bring? Who knows. Hopefully we'll be able to get back to some sense of normality and get this pent-up creative drive out into the world with some brand-new Strange Tales and some other exciting projects. We hope you had a very Merry Christmas, wherever you are and however you spent it, and all the very best for a happy and healthy 2021.

  • Production Update! 2020 Hell!!

    Hello all! Hope your all well and at this time and coping with the endless rule changes around us all & news of a vacine in sight!! it has been a long few months at Watchers - with national lockdown, local lockdowns, firebreak and some kind of freedom ahead. A few of us having to shield and stay safe! But in that time we were activly making new content for our Film Blog and busy working on scripts for future projects. Kept ticking over is the best thing to say! Just before most of South Wales went into local lockdowns, we were prepping a new Strange Tales production with a co-production with Valiant Films is the long awaited LOCKED. The Director on this film sees the return of Teddy Smith to Strange Tales, who Directed Second Chances. LOCKED; In the future, Justice is delegated to machines: infallible and objective, these AI dispense fair punishments. Kay is accused by her neighbour of dropping trash on their lawn. It's a civil infraction, and while it was only an oversight on Kay's part, she's charged with a small fine. Kay is about to leave when her hand is locked, and the machine accuses her of murder – of somebody Kay has never met. Her only chance at survival is to prove her innocence, but while the AI begins drawing a net of guilt around her, we're left asking ourselves if she’s as innocent as she looks. The film has a cast attached and once the lockdown lifts shooting dates will be scheduled. Cast & Crew are set, we await a safer time to reschedule filming dates over the next coming months and plan to get the newest Tale in front of cameras asap. Additionally over the summer we have had a string of postive news so far from the Film Festival circuit - just before we went into lockdown we had the news that both Epimetheus and Brand New Beginnings had made selection in the BAFTA Cymru entry festival - Carmarthen Bay Film Festival. Well the selections kept on coming thick and fast. Epimetheus has made it into the Cardiff based Twisted Tales and US based Dead In Decatur Horror Film Festival. Matthew Ford, one of our Exec. Producers here at Watchers has had his screenplay Killing The Music make it as nominated finalist in both 13horror.com & Grim North Screenplay Festival and is available now from Amazon to take a read and enjoy! And finally our last released Strange Tale: Deliver Us From Gee has been selected and has been nominated for Best No Budget Short Film at this years Wales Film Festival. So to all those involved with these projects - a MASSIVE THANK YOU for all your hard work and free time. Fab to see the work starting to be recognised in these ways. So now coming out of hibernation and we are ready to do what we can to continue making new independent entertainment. With that in mind we have gone into a new collaberation with Valiant Films and Dramatic Moose productions - we are currently in production on a new audio drama of the classic - A Christmas Carol. To be released this coming Christmas. Stay safe and stay strong. The Watchers

  • Production Update: Time's are a changing!

    Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic and the lockdown in the UK, Watchers productions has now postponed a number of filming dates this Spring/Summer. We have had positives along the way these last few weeks too - both Brand New Beginnings and Epimetheus have been selected for the BAFTA Cymru qualifying Film Festival; Carmarthen Bay Film Festival. Unfortunately because of Covid-19/Lockdown the festival will not be having any public screenings this year, but the competition continues to be judged behind closed doors with an awards celebration at the 2021 Festival. So we have fingers crossed for the two films to go on and do well - but at the same time are heavily disappointed to not be able to go along to this Welsh festival and be with our cast and crew, while watching the hard work on a big screen. Oh well - next one...... ​ Which brings us onto the following negative announcement! At this time no new Strange Tales will be filmed until further notice. ​ We however continue to develop and pre-produce a number of films ready to shoot once the lockdown is lifted. Unfortunately a number of planned productions this year have now been postponed until 2021 - including our planned Halloween Special for this year,#DeadNotDead. But we are actively working towards getting this and the others back on track and brought to you as part of our 2021 line up. #DeadNotDead is the story of a late night local radio DJ receiving on air calls as the dead rise! We hope to make a further 4 Strange Tales at least this year! We have three production partners working on Tales, Valiant Films are in pre-production on the long awaited LOCKED from a script by the talented Eleonora Mignoli. The Director/Producer on this film sees the return of Teddy Smith to Strange Tales, who Directed Second Chances. LOCKED; In the future, Justice is delegated to machines: infallible and objective, these AI dispense fair punishments. Kay is accused by her neighbour of dropping trash on their lawn. It's a civil infraction, and while it was only an oversight on Kay's part, she's charged with a small fine. Kay is about to leave when her hand is locked, and the machine accuses her of murder – of somebody Kay has never met. Her only chance at survival is to prove her innocence, but while the AI begins drawing a net of guilt around her, we're left asking ourselves if she’s as innocent as she looks. The film has a cast attached and once the lockdown lifts shooting dates will be scheduled. One piece of great news to come from the lockdown, is filmmaker Luke Walters and his team over at Cinescope, have come to us with a script they want to make into a Tale - we have happily green lit Murder For Sale. We look forward to bringing you more news on this project as it develops - I'm told by Luke (who will be Directing) that his DOP and himself are working on shot plans in the lockdown! Creative time well spent! A Tale that will be produced by Rhys Jones, The Table - Written & to be Directed by Richard Williams, - a Poker Game that goes all very weird! Richard wrote and Directed the Tale Human Resources and were chuffed to have him back and to be co-producing again alongside his team over at Big Rich productions. The other Tale actively in development in lockdown is Dinner Date. David lives alone and is trying to get himself out into the dating world. He’s invited Jen around for dinner to show off his cooking skills and to please his pestering mother. As the night rolls on, the two laugh and bond, but Jen suspects he might be keeping something from her. Dinner Date is written by Christopher Maxwell of Dramatic Moose productions who have worked with us on a number of productions now. Dinner Date will be directed by Ellen Jane Thomas. Ellen is an actress with TV presenting and directing credits under her belt, having worked with BBC Wales and Made Television in these fields. But her first love is performance, experiencing working with Channel 4, National Theatre Wales and BBC Two Wales. Ellen won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the It's My Shout awards in 2017 for her role as Tanvi in Rory Romantic, and can currently be seen online in BBC Writersroom sketch Porta-LOLS. We have these lining up and a few others up our sleeves if things can align at the right time - this year is a difficult one for all, us included. For now we have the completed 7 films so far, the most up to date being Deliver Us From Gee - released 11th April 2020. ​Please enjoy those and any of our content and for supporting the productions. Rhys, Tez & Matt

  • Casting Announcement: LOCKED - Rob Murphy

    It is with great pleasure to announce Rob Murphy joining the cast of LOCKED, Rob will be playing the part of Alfred Wyre. Rob has worked with us at Watchers a number of times and we look forward to getting back on set with him. Rob Murphy is a seasoned Actor, Writer and Director from the South Wales area. Over the years he has appeared in Casualty, Sheltered Life, Expiry, The Ballad of Melinoe and several BBC It's My Shout films between 2016 - 2019. Rob has also work with Watcher productions in the past having appeared in Whovians: The Web Series and Watchers Productions Presents: Sketchy AF.

  • Casting Announcement: LOCKED - Thom Robin

    Thrilled to announce during these unsettling times that we have confirmed the talented Thom Robins will be in the Strange Tale - LOCKED. He will be playing the character of Peter. We look forward to working on this with Thom and the rest of the cast at some point this year. Thom Robins Thom Robin is an Actor & Stand-Up Comedian from Cardiff, Wales. After studying three years of Acting at University, Thom has started writing and producing sketches to be posted on YouTube and BBC Sesh. Other works of his are Julius Caesar in Julius Caesar, Ernst in Spring Awakening and voicing the creepy Jolly Jim in both the Midnight Jester and Christmas Nightmare. Stay Safe, Stay Calm and be a great community. And if you are bored at home - go watch some Watchers productions!!

  • Production Update: Locked

    So with the uncertainty at present we can announce somethings with certainty! We are still thanks massivly to the invention of the internet - post production for Deliver Us From Gee is on track for a Easter weekend release. So watch out for more promo material for that in the next coming weeks! There are Strange Tales still being developed with filming dates not as yet set - which at present is a good thing! But we are looking to film LOCKED hopefully in May/June if all is well! But we can and will be announcing the confirmed cast and crew over the next few posts. Locked written by Eleonora Mignoli Eleonora is a writer and director based in Sheffield. Before moving to the UK in 2014, she lived for three years in Australia, where she gained an Advanced Diploma in Screenwriting at the Sydney Film School. When not reading, drawing or patting strangers’ dogs, she can be found working on her most recent projects, which include directing short films as one half of the collective Leo and The Bears, writing sci-fi screenplays (like the award-winning BBC short Rory Romantic) and editing her debut novel Oneirika. The Director/Producer on this film sees the return of Teddy Smith to Strange Tales, who Directed Second Chances. Over the past few years, Ted has focused and dealt with PTSD, Depression, Anxiety and Loss. The highlight of his time behind the camera was working on Whovians with Watchers Productions and on STFU and Bitten with Big Rich Productions. The films plot is; In the future, Justice is delegated to machines: infallible and objective, these AI dispense fair punishments. Kay is accused by her neighbour of dropping trash on their lawn. It's a civil infraction, and while it was only an oversight on Kay's part, she's charged with a small fine. Kay is about to leave when her hand is locked, and the machine accuses her of murder – of somebody Kay has never met. Her only chance at survival is to prove her innocence, but while the AI begins drawing a net of guilt around her, we're left asking ourselves if she’s as innocent as she looks. The first Cast we can Happily Announce is: Sophie Moore as Kay Starr Sophie Moore does a wide variety of acting work, including commercials, corporate videos, promotional shoots and web series. Her most recent commercials includes First Car Quote and London Women’s Clinic. Having achieved a degree in English and Drama, she spent a year teaching English in China a few years ago. Sophie’s true passion lies in acting and she now works as a casting agent for Wales number one casting agency, Creative Casting. Sophie is thrilled to be playing Kay in Locked and cannot wait to get stuck in. Will announce more news as and when we have it - we will also announce more confirmed cast over the next few posts.

  • Goodbye 2019 & 2020 here we come!

    We have begun a new year and we are off and running! Looking back on 2019, we had a very big and busy year. We started the year off releasing 9 new episodes of the Comedy Sketch web series Sketchy AF. We then jumped on various short films in order so we could launch Strange Tales in June. In January we finished off filming Brand New Beginnings, Directed by Matthew Fisher. Second Chances went in front of the cameras the start of February Directed by Teddy Smith. Strange Tales launched June 15th with the first of three films produced for it. Strange Tales is a series of short, stand-alone films which have a twist in the tale. The Channel is a showcase for the talent involved, while promoting low-budget filmmaking in South Wales. We launched with Human Resources Directed by Richard Williams, Brand New Beginnings and Second Chances. We produced a further four films in 2019 - starting in June with Home Written & Directed by Terrance Marshman-Edwards. Which was released right at the end of 2019 on December 31st. Epimetheus was a last minute green light, when we decided last minute to start doing Halloween special Strange Tales - which we will continue to do. It was filmed in August, then it was quickly released in October. Schrodinger was filmed one weekend in September. Stars Victoria George-Veale and Gavin Rand, written by Xander Grant and Directed by Rhys Jones. It is in the hands of the editor as we type! The final film we shot in 2019 was the bulk of Deliver Us From Gee which we have now wrapped up with a final shoot in January of 2020. We are very excited about this project for a number of reasons, but one is of course getting to work with and have in the film, Gareth David Lloyd. That is pretty much the busiest year we have had since we completed Whovains back in 2016 - 2020 mind looks to be even busier for us!! We have at present 6 Strange Tales in different stages of pre-production with further being discussed at this time. We have confirmed the release of Schrodinger in February and Deliver Us From Gee at Easter. More on the Strange Tales as we progress. We will be activley looking towards our in development feature film - Universe PLC, which Deliver Us From Gee is a preqeul to. We are extremely excited about this year ahead - also we are very proud of what has been accomplished in 2019. We would like to once again whole hearted say a massive THANK YOU to all our volunteers - both in front, behind and after the camera rolls. Without there passion we wouldnt be able to get done what we have. So heres to you all, to the ventures of 2019 and on to the year ahead. Terrance, Matthew & Rhys

  • End of October Production Update

    So we come to the end of October and what a busy month again for us here at Watchers! We released our 4th Strange Tale on Halloween - Epimetheus. Great for all involved that it is out there and so far getting a lot of nice attention and reactions. Go forth and watch it :) Currently in post production are 2 more films - Home and Schrodinger, Home is on track to be released before the end of 2019 and Schrodinger will be released on Valentines Day 2020!! This month saw a series of meetings with various team members - all developing and pre-production on a number of Strange Tales all to be filmed in 2020. Ellen Jane Thomas & Chris Maxwell are working on Dinner Date. Hannah Celyn Griffiths is working on Before We Go and Teddy Smith, Director of Second Chances is working on Locked. The team from Dramatic Moose, who co-produced Brand New Beginnings are back with us and we film Deliver Us From Gee in November - to be Directed by Rhys Jones. More news on this very special Strange Tale next month. On top of these and other conversations with other filmmakers and writers - the future of Strange Tales looks bright. Espeacially as we are actually starting work in November on our next Halloween Strange Tale!!! Thanks for reading andd keep watching!

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