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The Stage is set - Phase One Films are all ready to get going. 8 Short Films of all genres from incredible talented writers: Human Resources by Richard Williams Sam is a young but high flying business executive, she's popular with her co workers and has the world at her feet. During a meeting with the mysterious Noah from Human Resources, everything she thought she knew about the world around her, is thrown into doubt. HOME by Terrance Edwards A young man, dealing with a bereavement, starts to receive strange text messages. Is somebody playing a sick joke - or is there something more sinister at work ? Before We Go by Hannah Celyn Griffiths In an unsettled Britain of the future, Mags and Elin are forced to face the ultimate test when they are hunted for speaking another language. Will they choose to confront their enemy or will they risk survival in a country at war? Second Chances by Matthew Fisher John doesn't like to stand out. "Out of sight, out of mind" is his philosophy. But his way of thinking is challenged when he's forced to reevaluate his life. Brand New Beginnings by Matthew Ford In an alternate, present day Wales, people have become dependent on social media. Online dating is commonplace, and half of all UK marriages end in divorce. Mai and Elen, a couple in their twenties, have signed up for treatment at Brand New Beginnings, a company with a procedure that wipes all the bad memories from your relationship, replacing them with false, happy memories developed in a laboratory. As the procedure is explained, Mai and Elen begin to have second thoughts. LOCKED by Eleonora Mignoli In the future, Justice is delegated to machines: infallible and objective, these AI dispense fair punishments. FRANK is accused by his neighbor of dropping trash on their lawn. It's a civil infraction, and while it was only an oversight on Frank's part, he's charged with a small fine. FRANK is about to leave when his hand is locked, and the machine accuses him of murder – of somebody Frank has never met. Frank calls for help, but the procedure is clear, once a trial starts, it cannot be interrupted. Frank's only chance at survival is to prove his innocence, but while the AI begins drawing a net of guilt around him, we're left asking ourselves if he’s as innocent as he looks. Schrodinger by Xander Grant Exactly how much do you love your partner? Would you like to know? Well thanks to the latest technology breakthrough, now you can! The real question is... can you cope with knowing the answer? Dinner Date by Chris Maxwell Howell 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. We have 8 Directors lined up all with different styles and visions: The casting is underway and Actors lined up: So please if you haven't yet and are able to - please Donate! Help fund these films.

Sarah Bennington Really happy to announce that Sarah will be joining us on the Strange Tale - Brand New Beginnings. Sarah is an actor and musician. Since making her acting debut in 2016 with Axon Theatre in “Being Norwegian” – performing at both the Cardiff and Edinburgh Fringe Theatre Festivals – she has had numerous lead and supporting roles in other theatre productions. These have included “Abandoned” with Dramatic Moose & Watchers Productions, “The Great Gatsby” with Everyman Theatre, and most notably “The Last Nickel” with Monocle Theatre Company – for which she received an award for Best Individual Performance in the GDL One Act Play Festival 2018. She has been in a number of short films, including “The Wolf & I” which was officially selected for three International Film Festivals. She also has a couple of feature films and a web series coming up, to be filmed later this year. As a musician, Sarah studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and currently holds the Sub-Principal Flute position in the Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Her life is pretty busy but she is loving every minute of it! https://www.facebook.com/benningtonsarah/ https://twitter.com/BenningtonSarah

We announced Richard Williams a few weeks back as one of the Directors - well he is a Writer/Director and will be filming his story August 4th-5th. Human Resources will be first ever Strange Tale!!! We can not wait to get started and what a cracking tale to start with, so watch this space and if your a VIP Member - watch out for exclusive set videos, interviews and photos popping up soon. If your not VIP - why not? Either donate to the funding campaign or donate and become a VIP!! Human Resources Sam is a young but high flying business executive, she's popular with her co workers and has the world at her feet. During a meeting with the mysterious Noah from Human Resources, everything she thought she knew about the world around her, is thrown into doubt.

Rhys Jones Channel Exec. Producer & Director So the eighth Director of the short films is Watchers own Rhys Jones - who is also the Executive Producer of the Strange Tales Channel. Rhys grew up in Pembrokeshire where as a young boy he always wanted to work in the Media, and has worked in Television Post Production for the past 10 plus years, working on numerous productions for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, SKY, MTV and S4C. In addition to his Post Production day job and Producing/Directing Watchers productions - Rhys took part in the It's My Shout 2017 scheme, in which he Directed the short film - Rory Romantic. The film WON the Best Sci-Fi Short Film award at the 2018 New York City Int. Film Festival. CAN YOU HELP US? Go on help us 8 film makers get going and end up entertaining you!!

Well, well, well... well! We are very happy to not only announce that our very own Terrance Edwards fantastic script will be produced as one of the first phase of films - but also. Terrance is the final Director in our line up - he is making his Directorial Debut. Terrance Edwards Terrance is one of the Watchers, Exec. Producer and all round talented chap! He co-produced, wrote and guest appeared in Whovians. Plus he is currently producing Sketchy AF for us at Watchers productions. Terrance holds an MA in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Carmarthen and has had poetry published in Algebra Of Owls, Ink Sweat And Tears, Haiku Journal, and Roundyhouse Magazine. He has performed his own poetry throughout South Wales and further afield for over ten years, performing at the Sherman Theatre in 2004, the Wales Millennium Centre in 2009 and at the HowTheLightGetsIn festival at Hay-on-Wye in 2011. He is also an actor, recently performing in several plays for Monstrous Productions Theatre Company and Dramatic Moose Productions. HOME A young man, dealing with a bereavement, starts to receive strange text messages. Is somebody playing a sick joke - or is there something more sinister at work ? CAN YOU HELP FUND THIS - and another 7 Short Tales? See what perks you can get from as little as 5 Pound!!!!!

Another one of our Directors who is also a writer. BUT!!! Mr Fisher has decided not to Direct his own writing - so things are bit different with this one :) Matthew Fisher has worked with us at watchers on numerous occasions, he guest starred in Whovians, we co-produced his play Abandoned with him and we are developing a feature film with him as well. So we are very excited to have a Tale written by him. Follow him on Twitter: @Dramatic_Moose Matthew Fisher Second Chances John doesn't like to stand out. "Out of sight, out of mind" is his philosophy. But his way of thinking is challenged when he's forced to reevaluate his life. GO ON - HELP FUND ALL THIS!!!

Happy to announce James will be joining us on one of the shorts coming up from Strange Tales. JAMES MORGAN James started acting at a young age and has appeared in television, film and theatre. His tv and film credits include, ‘The Indian Dr’, ‘24: live another day’ and ‘Hunky Dory’. His theatre productions include such as ‘Of Micd and Men’, ‘ Bouncers’ and ‘I could have been an astronaut if it wasn’t for Malachy McAleer’ Can you help towards filming costs - plus get yourself some perks for being awesome?

So with all things Watchers there are three of us at the heart of these productions, the whole idea for Strange Tales is to have a platform where film makers can collectively gain a larger audience for the films made. With the first of 8 being produced, of course us as a production team will be taken a few of our ideas to that collective stage, a few being the word. Two in fact. - two films will be Directed by Watchers and two have been written by Watchers. First up is one written by one of us. Matthew Ford Matthew’s earliest memory is scribbling a short story (two-or-three lines of illegible handwriting); since then, pen and paper has rarely been out of arm’s reach. Having written for stage, Matthew has had scripts performed at scratch nights for the Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bike Shed Theatre, Cheltenham Everyman, Genesis Cinema, and Exeter’s Ignite Festival. In 2018, he was Assistant Director on Dramatic Moose’s first production, Abandoned. Matthew was one of the executive producers on Whovians, writing Geek in Silver (S1, Ep4) and The Parting of the Ways (S2,Ep6), and co-wrote Bradley and the Doctor (S1, Ep5), Behind the Table (S2, Ep1), and the 2016 Christmas special, Two Nights Before Christmas. Following Whovians, Matthew was back as exec producer on the Christmas pilot for Sketchy AF, writing a number of sketches including Ross Kemp on Christmas and Hazel Reardon: Foul-Mouthed Agony Aunt. Matthew’s first love is horror films. His short script Hanging Hill Row reached the final ten in 13horror.com’s worldwide short screenplay contest. Hanging Hill Row is now available to buy as an eBook from Amazon.co.uk Brand New Beginnings In an alternate, present day Wales, people have become dependent on social media. Online dating is commonplace, and half of all UK marriages end in divorce. Mai and Elen, a couple in their twenties, have signed up for treatment at Brand New Beginnings, a company with a procedure that wipes all the bad memories from your relationship, replacing them with false, happy memories developed in a laboratory. As the procedure is explained, Mai and Elen begin to have second thoughts. Can you help us get this made or the other 7? Why not donate to the filming costs and get a few Perks along the way?

Our next writer and story announcement is a very interesting one - not only because it is a fantastic script and such an interesting idea, but the writer is a very private person. Xander Grant Xander Grant started writing on his parent’s old typewriter, they did have a computer at the time but he insisted. Not because he was trying to be trendy, it was just because he was only eight years old. Nowadays he’s progressed to the digital age. Having said that he distrusts most technology, having worked in television for fifteen years. He lives in South Wales with his wife and two monsters. Follow him over on Twitter @TheXanderGrant Schrodinger Exactly how much do you love your partner? Would you like to know? Well thanks to the latest technology breakthrough, now you can! The real question is... can you cope with knowing the answer? Go on - help fund this and the other films, why not pick up a perk while your at it?

Hannah Celyn Griffiths So we have a few New Writers on board and we also have a few old Watchers Productions comrades coming back to work on Strange Tales. As previously announced Hannah Celyn Griffiths will be making her debut as a Director, but - Hannah has worked with us at Watchers before, she co-starred in Whovians, but also wrote and Produced a number of episodes of the second series. If you missed the Torchwood inspired zombie saga - take a look at the omnibus edition of her story. Hannah this time around wrote a fantastic short film and will be Directing it for us. The film is called...... Before We Go In an unsettled Britain of the future, Mags and Elin are forced to face the ultimate test when they are hunted for speaking another language. Will they choose to confront their enemy or will they risk survival in a country at war? If you can help us get this made and the other 7 - please donate and get yourself a few perks along the way!!

So here is the second of eight Stories being produced as part of the initial Strange Tales showcase. Dinner Date by Chris Maxwell Howell 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. Chris Maxwell Howell Christopher Maxwell graduated from the Academy of Live & Recorded Arts (ALRA North) in 2016, and since acted in productions in Cardiff and in the North West. Christopher has also helped make short films throughout his young career and has since taken up the pen and paper and begun writing short stories. CAN YOU HELP US GET THIS & ALL STRANGE TALES MADE? Please donate now :)

We are very excited because after days of reading scripts from our first team of writers we have chosen our first 8 Strange Tales. We will over the next week be announcing what is coming! First up is the fantastic pitch that will be written by the fantastic Eleonora Mignoli - who last year wrote Rory Romantic, which won Best SciFi Short film at NYC Int. Film Festival. Fresh this she is here with us!! 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 film she will be writing for us is based on the following Synopsis: In the future, Justice is delegated to machines: infallible and objective, these AI Deleted:e machin Inserted: e AI dispense fair punishments. FRANK is accused by his neighbor of dropping trash on their lawn. It's a civil infraction, and while it was only an oversight on Frank's part, he's charged with a small fine. FRANK is about to leave when his hand is locked, and the machine accuses him of murder – of somebody Frank has never met. Frank calls for help, but the procedure is clear, once a trial Deleted:s him in Inserted: ed, Deleted:lot Deleted:e Inserted: i Inserted: is Deleted:t Deleted:sh Inserted: , Inserted: ge Deleted:t Inserted: b Inserted: ga Deleted:pped Inserted: st Deleted:dr Inserted: l Deleted:hi Inserted: Frank' starts, it cannot be interrupted. Frank's only chance at survival is to prove his innocence, but while the AI begins drawing a net of guilt around him, we're left asking ourselves Deleted:machine Inserted: , Inserted: AI if he’s as innocent as he looks. Keep an eye for news on this production and if you can please Fund us with the button below.