Films
Our focus is professional corporate
film production, but we also shoot live events and produce
creative work.
Filmography
Dated accurate as of July 2008
| Date |
Type |
Title |
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| 2008 June |
Live Event |
Rhona
and Coleen's Wedding |
| 2008 June |
Live Event |
Harne
Funeral |
| 2008 May |
Music Video |
Innercircles/Outerfences
|
| 2008 May |
Live Event |
The
Marilyn Monroe Show |
| 2008 May |
Corporate |
Hays
Bangkok Conference |
| 2008
May |
Live Event |
Mears
Funeral |
| 2008 April |
Showreel |
David
Marx (Actor) |
| 2008
April |
Corporate |
Aggreko
Australia Promo |
| 2008 February |
Corporate |
Reuters
Malta Conference |
| 2007 December |
Short Film |
Tenacity |
| 2007
November |
Corporate |
Aggreko
Highlights |
| 2007 October |
Animation |
Aggreko
CES |
| 2007 October |
Short Film |
The
Wallet |
| 2007 September |
Live Event |
Paul
and Gemma's Wedding |
| 2007
August |
Live Event |
Thomlinson
Funeral |
| 2006 July |
Short Film |
A.R.P. |
| 2006 April |
Documentary |
Peerless
-Memories from the West Pier |
| 2005 December |
Short Film |
A.T.M. |
| 2005 November |
Live Event |
re:present Cultural Arts Festival |
| 2005 July |
Feature Film |
Hidden
Agenda |
|
|
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Selected
Films
|
Innercircles/Outerfences (2008/UK)
Format: HDV
Length:
7 minutes
Director:
Daniel Parkes
Writer:
Daniel Parkes
Producers:
Itsuka Parkes ; Sinead Ferguson ;
Daniel Parkes
Other
crew: Roger Marshall (Camera operator) ; Andre Marshall
(Camera Assistant); Ray Moore
(Focus Puller)
Cast:
Joe Gooch (lead vocals); Phil Gooch (Lead guitar); Kieron
James (Guy); Naomi Mayo (Girl)
Plot
outline: A music video for London band MellowSun. |
Further
information:
- Premiered
to a crowd of over 100 gathered on July 13, 2008 at Cineworld Brighton
Marina, on screen 8.
- First
official Parkes Productions music video, shot mostly at 60fps for a
slow motion effect.
View
the official teaser |
Tenacity (2006/UK)
Format: HDV
Length:
14 minutes
Director:
Daniel Parkes
Writer:
Daniel Parkes ; Itsuka Parkes
Producer:
Michael Chowen; Daniel Parkes;
Itsuka Parkes
Other
crew: Sinead
Ferguson (Assistant director) ; Roger Marshall (Camera operator) ;
Andre Marshall (Camera Assistant)
Cast:
James Lawne (Duncan Clarke); David Marx (Alberto Lamberto); Morrison
Thomas (Mr.Wilson); Barbara Longely (Mrs.Wilson)
Plot
outline: A
tenacious real estate agent's top ten tips for success are respectively
challenged by an equally determined tenant during a property showing.
|
Further
information:
- Premiered
to a crowd of over 100 gathered on July 13, 2008 at Cineworld Brighton
Marina, on screen 8.
- First
Parkes Productions film to be shot and edited on HD, using a 35mm
adapter, at 24fps.
- Some behind-the-scenes photographs can be seen here.
View
the official
A.R.P. trailer |
A.R.P. (2006/UK)
Format:
35mm
Length:
9 minutes
Director:
Daniel Parkes
Writer:
Daniel Parkes
Producer:
Franz von Habsburg ; Daniel Parkes
Other
crew: Fareed Khimani (Director of photography); Simon
Clark (Camera operator) ; Daniel Parkes (Original score); Daniel Parkes
(Editor/Special effects)
Cast:
Tom Jacobs (Fred Baxter); Brinley Powell (Tom); Rob Oldfield
(Tom’s father); Jo Mulvey (Tom’s mother); David
Marx (Derek)
Plot
outline: An Air Raid Precautions warden stationed in the
Brighton area during World War Two faces an unexpected crisis in the
middle of a midday air raid. |
Further
information:
- Premiered
to a crowd of 110 gathered on November 11, 2006 at Whitehawk Primary
School, in Brighton. Events on the night included a tour
through
the school's air raid shelter and a live performance of the song
'Silver Screen'.
- Runner-up
award The Best
Imaginative
Response to the Subject of War, The Sixth Imperial War
Museum Student
Film Festival and Competition (2006)
- To
see behind-the-scenes production stills click
here
View
the official trailer
|
Peerless -Memories from the West Pier (2006/UK)
Format:
16mm
Length:
15 minutes
Director:
Daniel Parkes
Writer:
Daniel Parkes
Producer:
Franz von Habsburg ; Daniel Parkes
; Fareed Khimani
Other
crew: Fareed Khimani (Camera operator); Oliver
Moxley (Camera
operator); Daniel Parkes (Original score); Daniel Parkes
(Editor/Special effects)
Cast: Bert
Fagan (Himself); Dorothy Fagan
(Herself); Michael Robins (Himself); Peter Marsh (Himself); Shirley
Marsh (Herself); Margaret Cullen (Herself); Ron Cunningham (Himself);
Jake Taylor (Young Bert Fagan); Jo Mulvey (Young Dorothy Fagan); Aimee
O’Brien (Shirley Marsh’s mother); Jude Easteal
(Young Michael Robins); David Marx (Young Ron Cunningham)
|
Plot
outline: Brighton’s now derelict West
Pier is brought
back to life through dramatic recreations of local people’s
memories of the romantic ruin.
Further
information:
- Premiered
to a crowd of 180 gathered on April 29, 2006 at the Holiday Inn
Brighton Seafront (formerly known as The Hilton)
- One of 27 films nominated
for the Manaki Brothers 27th International Cinematographers Film
Festival Student Programme 2006.
- Newspaper review:
“You get a sad and sentimental feeling… Some of it
has been artfully reconstructed in black and white, while other scenes
are from the period. Sometimes it's hard to spot the
difference.” –Adam Trimingham, Film review (The
Argus, 14 October 2006) newspaper article.
- Internet
Movie Database entry: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0948459/
View
A.T.M -(2 minute version)
|
A.T.M. (2006/UK)
Format:
DV (Handycam)
Length:
2 minutes
Director:
Daniel Parkes
Writer:
Daniel Parkes
Producer:
Franz von Habsburg ; Daniel Parkes
Other
crew: Iain Gaffney (Camera operator); Oliver Moxley
(Special
effects)
Cast:
Francesca Contento (Tourist); Jimmy Purtill (Pursuer); Daniel
Gallichan (Boy)
Plot
outline: A tourist must deal with a mysterious pursuer
after she withdraws a large amount of money from a cash machine.
|
Further
information:
- It
was a first term BFS project that
required
making a 60 second film that included four randomly selected objects: a
bag, ball,
coathanger and pair of scissors
- International
top ten finalist in the
Student Filmmakers
Summer Shorts Contest 2006
- The
3rd Talent Circle Super Shorts Film
Festival 2006 entry
- CREATE
Worldwide TV broadcast 2006
(UK)
- Propellor
TV broadcast 2006 (UK)
|
re:present (2005/UK)
Format:
DV (Handycam)
Length:
10 minutes
Director:
Daniel Parkes
Producer:
Daniel Parkes
Other
crew: Itsuka
Parkes (interviewer and camera assistant)
Plot
outline: A documentary on
‘re:present,’ a
Brighton cultural arts festival that took place in October 2005.
|
View
the official trailer |
Hidden Agenda (2005/JAPAN)
Format:
DV (Handycam)
Length:
45 minutes
Director:
Daniel Parkes
Writer:
Daniel Parkes
Producer:
Itsuka
Parkes ; Daniel Parkes
Other
crew:
Daniel Parkes (Camera operator, Editor, Special effects,
Composer); Alex Taro Dorsey (Vocals/Musician); Tom Mita (Musician);
Itsuka Parkes (Production assistant)
Cast: Koji Kurumadani (Sawada);
Takashi Yamasaki (Ki Yung Lee); Itsuka
Parkes (Satomi); Kenji Yoshida (Hyung Jin); Kikuo Yamazaki (Yamaguchi);
Mutsuko Yamazaki (Masked Woman)
Plot
outline: A schoolgirl
inadvertantly assists a Japanese government
agent who is trying to escape North Korean operatives who will stop at
nothing to recover a disk containing sensitive information.
|
Further
information:
- Filmed
on location in Japan, dialogue completely in Japanese, it was set as a
challenge to see the possibility of making a feature length
film
using
no more than a handycam.
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