Chris Barfoot

Chris Barfoot (born Christopher John Barfoot, 7 September 1966) is a British actor, writer/director and producer of film productions.

Chris Barfoot
Barfoot on set, December 1999

Biography

Christopher J. Barfoot[1] is an award winning writer/producer and director from Southampton, England.

His film making career began when (the then bit-part TV actor) teamed up with editor Peter Dobson creating TV sketches for London Weekend Television (ITV) with Jeremy Beadle[2] and Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright in 1994 before casting Prunella Scales in the Sci Fi mini-thriller Phoenix[3] (1997).

Winning two U.S. Platinum Remis for Phoenix [4] and then Hellion [5] and two Gold Remis with fellow writer/producer Robert Clother,[6] for Dead Clean[4] (starring Andrew Sachs and Shane Richie)[7] (starring, Mark Chapman, Susie Lumley, Lex van Delden).[8] This led Barfoot to write a spate of feature movie screenplays.

Barfoot and Clother received an ‘Honorable mention’ at the Dragon Con film festival for The Reckoning[9] in 2003.[10] The Reckoning also won Sky Movies Top Ten Short Films of All Time with Richard Jobson. The film was broadcast by NBC Universal's Sci Fi Channel until 2008, where it received their highest viewing figures of all time.

In 2006, Barfoot won First Place at the Dragon Con[11] film festival for Helix[12] starring Prunella Scales and Robert Pulvertaft.[13]

Jerry Springer learning his lines for a Chris Barfoot production.

In 2007, Barfoot directed interactive web commercials (digital marketing) for Graphico New Media. His clients included Pepsi Co.

Feature screenplays he has written are Contact, Banshee, Knights of Delirium, Hellion (work in progress), The Fall of Roman’s Empire (co-author Stefan Smith[14]), Aggressive Behavior[15] (US) Unwelcome [15](UK/Europe) (co-author Stefan Smith), and Hell's Gate (shortlisted for best script 2006 at the Beverly Hills Film Festival), and winner of an ‘Honorable Mention’ at the Los Angeles Film and Script Festival 2010.[16]

Barfoot is a former full voting member of BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts),[17][18] his fiancee is Cheryl Richmond, he has one daughter (Bianca), two grandchildren (Taylor and Finn) and three stepchildren (Jack, Rachael and Louise).

Barfoot also maintains an interest in Anglo American Pictures.

Chris Barfoot had a close association with fellow Southampton film Director Ken Russell. Barfoot was offered the job of producing Russells film A Kitten for Hitler but refused out of concerns that the film would be interpreted as anti-semitic.

From 2002 onwards, Barfoot had a 13 year hiatus from film, but he continued writing screen plays until 2006 and shot commercials until 2008. in 2015, Barfoot made a decision to relaunch his film career, to update his skills he then attended Solent University, gaining a BA (HONS) and then a Masters in Film Production.

His current production companies are Black Russian Movie Limited and Montaj.

As of 2018, Chris Barfoot's latest film is Hide Go Seek,[19] a short gangster film currently in post production, it stars former Eastenders actor Howard Anthony, Mark Christopher Collins[20] and Natasha Slater.[21]

References
  1. "Chris Barfoot". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
  2. "Hot Shots". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
  3. Phoenix, retrieved 2019-06-23
  4. "WorldFest Houston : Date: April 20 - April 29 2001 : Location: Houston, Texas, USA". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
  5. "WorldFest Houston (2001)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  6. "Robert Clother". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  7. "The Reckoning (2002)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 6, 2010. Retrieved May 31, 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. The Reckoning, retrieved 2019-06-23
  10. "Dragon*Con Independent Film Festival - 2002". Filmfest.dragoncon.org. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
  11. "Home Page | Dragoncon". www.dragoncon.org. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
  12. Helix, retrieved 2019-06-23
  13. "Dragon*Con Independent Film Festival - 2006 Films". Filmfest.dragoncon.org. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
  14. "Stefan Smith". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
  15. Unwelcome, retrieved 2019-06-23
  16. "Los Angeles Film and Script Festival". Lafilmandscriptfest.com. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
  17. "List of names" (PDF). Static.bafta.org. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
  18. "Contact Us". BAFTA. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
  19. Hide Go Seek, retrieved 2019-06-23
  20. "Mark Christopher Collins". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
  21. "Natasha Slater". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-06-23.

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