Film Slate 2019 / 2020
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Based in London, Hutchinson Pictures Co. specialises in creating top quality film and television, rooted in theatrical imagination. David Hutchinson CEO
David trained at the Liverpool Institute (West End); Ghosts (UK tour); Sincerely, Mr for Performing Arts. He also trained in Toad (UK tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream writing at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. (UK tour); The History Boys (Greenwich David is Artistic Director of Sell A Door Theatre); Sealand (Arcola Theatre); Rainbow Theatre Company, Producer for Hutchinson (Edinburgh Fringe); Spring Awakening Rowntree Ltd and International Associate of (UK tour); A Taste of Honey (Buxton Opera Brooklyn Youth Company in New York. House); The Comedy of Errors (Greenwich Playhouse); Stitching (Edinburgh Fringe); Producing credits include: Fame (UK Tour), The Philanderer (Greenwich Playhouse); Madagascar A Musical Adventure (UK Tour), Where the Solitary Eagle Flies (Liverpool Kindertransport (UK Tour), Of Mice And Men Unity Theatre); Twelfth Night (Greenwich (UK Tour), The Producers (international tour); Playhouse); Six Ways (Edinburgh Fringe) Jersey Boys (international tour); Peter Pan and By Order of Ignorance (Greenwich (Blackpool Winter Gardens); Monty Python’s Playhouse). Spamalot (UK tour); Flashdance (UK tour); Footloose: The Musical (UK Tour 2017); Directing credits include: Jekyll & Hyde Guess How Much I Love You (UK Tour); The (UK Tour), Alice in Wonderland (Greenwich Crucible (UK Tour); The Quite Remarkable Theatre); 1984 (UK tour);Journey’s End Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat (Greenwich Theatre); The Man Who Had All (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Footloose: the Luck (Scottish tour); The Hound of the The Musical (UK Tour 2016); Little Shop of Baskervilles (Greenwich Theatre); Lord of Horrors (UK Tour); James and the Giant the Flies (UK tour); Peter (LOST Theatre, Peach (UK and Middle Eastern Tour); The London); A Christmas Carol (Greenwich Broons (UK Tour); American Idiot (UK Tour); Playhouse); Proof (Greenock Arts Guild); Hand to God (West End); Seussical (UK, UAE Dracula (Scottish tour); The Railway Children and Singapore); The Silver Sword (UK tour); (Edinburgh Fringe); Blue/ Orange (Greenwich American Idiot (West End); Avenue Q (UK Playhouse); Falsettoland (Edinburgh Fringe); tour); The History Boys (UK tour); Sunset Planning Permission (Liverpool Unity Song (Scottish tour); Avenue Q (UK and Theatre) and The Night Before Christmas Ireland tour); Kidnapped (UK tour); Seussical (Liverpool Sennheiser Studio). Amy Burke Executive Producer/ Assistant to David
Amy trained at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in Birmingham UK, and at Washington University in St. Louis. She has worked as an actor for over 12 years in the US and UK, and has produced numerous cabarets and musical plays, working with both theatres and corporate partners, and in the last two years has moved into film production.
Producing credits include: The Cabaret Farce (muscical play, London & Edinburgh), The Voice (short musical film), One For My Baby (music video) The London Fizz (cabaret, London), The Naughty Poppy Appeal (cabaret, London)
Acting credits include: Other People’s Money (Southwark Playhouse, London), Angel of Decay (feature), Serial Thriller (television), Smart Home (short film), Kevin (short film), The Dangers of Love in the Workplace (short film), City of Champions (London), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (London), Ah, Wilderness! (London), Proof (Greenock Arts Guild), Harvey (Great Plains Theatre), Arsenic & Old Lace (Arrow Rock), Little Women (Arrow Rock), After the Fall (St. Louis) film
Kato
Based on the true story of David Kato - Kato or death, the threats to his life start to is a powerful story of courage and belief in multiply. Unphased by the immediate threat the rights of Ugandan’s illegal community. to his safety - he establishes SMUG - a champion for sexual minorities in Africa, Kato follows the life of Uganda’s ‘First which further draws attention to his fight Openly Gay Man’ and widely considered for the rights of his community. When the the father of Ugandan Gay Rights. As Rolling Stones publishes a list of openly Kato establishes himself with the LGBT gay individuals in Uganda - the pressure on community in a country where gay same-sex Kato, and his loyal supporters, intensifies. relations is punishable by life imprisonment series - comedy
The Household
Working in a royal residence demands Set in modern times inside the residence of a certain level of decorum and attention a prestigious member of the royal family, to detail, as well as deep reverence for this ensemble-led series follows the well- ancient customs passed down through meaning but accident-prone household generations. However, the influence of staff as they struggle to keep things running modern times is inevitable, and even the smoothly. Infighting and jealousy run royal family aren’t immune. rampant as the staff struggle to deal with their cultural differences and the ancient As the polished precision of Downton Abbey’s hierarchy of their household roles, but Mr. Carson proves to be a thing of the past, as chaos erupts around them, they must they must take whatever staff they can get, somehow find a way to band together in and what they can get is, well...not great. order to keep their jobs (and the house) from going up in smoke.
Key Creative STACY SOBIESKI is an American writer and actress who currently resides in the UK. Her debut full-length play PETER was first produced in London by internationally-renowned theatre company Selladoor and later went on to be published by Samuel French. She has also contributed one-act plays to the US new writing festival entitled Experiments in Ink. In the past, Stacy also worked as a travel blogger where she freelanced for publications such as TimeOut London. Currently, Stacy is in the process of adapting PETER into a screenplay, in addition to developing a sitcom based on her personal experiences working for the royal family. series - comedy The Lab
Diabetes is a global health crisis, and the Hård Lab cheated, ringlead by Poppy’s across the academic world, research teams nemesis: the toe-curlingly posh douchebag are working tirelessly to find a cure. The Hugo Patel. Veronica and Poppy concoct a Bang-Johnson Lab is one of those teams, scheme that they are convinced will prove that and for years it has been on the cutting the Hård Lab is dirty and restore the honour of edge of diabetes research, drawing the the Bang-Johnson Lab once and for all. best and brightest to the University of the West of England. Two of those best-and- Unfortunately, their scheme is more lunacy brightest are postdoctoral researchers than brilliance, and it does not have the Veronica--a tightly wound but glamorous desired results. In fact, quite the opposite: in American--and Poppy: an effortlessly the course of the shenanigans, the heads of brilliant but chaotic Brit. the two labs, Gary Bang-Johnson and Melvin Hård, are inspired to team up and merge When the lab loses out on a major award their labs. Two will become one: The Bang- to their arch rivals, the Hård Lab, their very Johnson Hård Lab...or will it be the Hård future is in jeopardy. While simultaneously Bang-Johnson Lab? attempting to maintain their work and manage their personal lives, Veronica and ‘Either way, we’re getting fucked,’ Poppy Poppy scramble to find a way to save the observes. Bang-Johnson Lab. Suspicions arise that
Key Creatives
BURKE & ALLEN Amy Burke & Geri Allen have each worked on the UK theatre and cabaret scene for over ten years, and have created and collaborated on a wide range of work for stage and screen. Their work has been seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and at various venues across London including The Crazy Coqs, The Hospital Club, and the London Independent Film Festival.
DR SARAH FARABI, BSN PHD Dr Farabi brings over 8 years of research experience and has published several research journals. Farabi is a member Sigma Theta Tau, Midwest Nursing Research Society, American Academy of Sleep Medicine, American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association. Dr. Farabi received her Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing from the University of Illinois in Chicago, Illinois. film - thriller
The Glen
Five American high school friends take a As it becomes apparent someone doesn’t want commemorative trip to a remote glen in them there, the teenagers become divided over the highlands of Scotland, in memory of a how they can run from a psychopathic killer - in lecturer with local routes who passed away the middle of now here. recently in their native Oregon.
But their Scottish adventure soon turns into a nightmare, as the dark past of the beautiful countryside haunts them and the history of the local town of Augustus. film
TARTAN WARRIOR JOURNEY TO HAPPINESS
In May 2015 Josh Quigley tried to kill himself. He drove his car at eighty miles an hour directly into a concrete barrier. He walked away from the collision completely unharmed. This was the beginning of his journey.
This is a film about purpose. An uplifting and at times darkly comic journey from depression to ... well, happiness is the wrong word. Happiness is an unhelpful word. Josh thought he wanted to be happy, but now he realises he just needed purpose. He had a million reasons to end his life, but now he has a million reasons to live.
This is a film for anyone who has ever struggled with the question, what should I do with my life? That is to say, this is a film for everyone.
Key Creative ROB DRUMMOND is an award-winning playwright and performer who has worked with the most prestigious theatres in the UK. He is an associate artist at the Traverse Theatre, and his wide-ranging work includes The Majority (National Theatre), the multi award- winning Bullet Catch (The Arches), the critically acclaimed thriller Grain In The Blood (The Traverse), and dating show In Fidelity (HighTide), in which Rob helped audience members find love live on stage. hutchinsonpictures.com [email protected]