Christine Hartland
Producer, patchwork productions
In 2008, Christine has produced her first feature film, the political thriller called WMD by David Holroyd nominated BEST UK DEBUT FEATURE at the East End Film Festival (2009) and theatrically released in October 2009. WMD is represented by Independent Film Company (Adulthood, Hallam Foe, Moon). For more info and trailer please visit www.wmd-insidestory.com.
*** 'undeniably gripping' - The Guardian
*** “gripping... does a serious job of indicting those who took us to war” – Channel 4
“Eerily plausible... impressive” – Graydon Carter, Editor of Vanity Fair
“Modern Cinema at its best” – John Pilger, multi-award winning war correspondant
“Well worth watching... makes it easy to see how the facts were misused to get us to war in Iraq” – Clare Short MP
“Intense... Holroyd doesn’t much lift the lid as tear it off” – Little White Lies
WMD is available to buy, rent and stream on iTunes (UK & US), Amazon UK & US and on LoveFILM ( www.lovefilm.com ) the UK.
She has nearly 15 years experience as corporate film and video Producer and has produced 4 award winning short films all distributed (Dazzle, Shorts International and New World).
In 2004 she set up Patchwork Productions ( www.patchwork-productions.co.uk ) which has a slate of projects at different stages of development. Her next features are Leanne Loves Pierre by Neil Wagstaff is part of The Big Pitch (top 6 out of 200) organised by moxie makers/Ipso Facto and If You See a Crocodile written by Matt Pitt currently looking for finance.
She also produced the award winning short films:
- the 35mm short ‘SICK ‘by Mike Rymer film supported by Film London, samaritans ( www.samaritans.org/sick ) & SLaM NHS Charitable Foundation Trust - distributed by Dazzle( www.egoproject.net )- available to buy at the BFI (British Film Institute).
- WOODEN SOUL by Rehana Rose Kahn ('Best Editing' at India Film Festival and shortlisted at many other festivals including Tribeca 2007) - distributed by Shorts International.
- FOUR CONVERSATIONS ABOUT LOVE by Jessica Townsend currently in film festivals (with already an award 'Best First time Filmmaker' at Washington DC 2007)- distributed by New World Films
- and BIG GIRL LITTLE GIRL by Amelia Hann ('Best Short' at the Miami Short Film Festival in 2004) distributed by Dazzle & on BBC Network.
She is also the founder and co-founder of the networking group mosaic ( www.mosaicnetworking.com ).
Founded by freelance producer, Christine Hartland, Patchwork Productions is working on developing various projects in film & broadcast with a view to producing.
Completed feature film:
WMD by David Holroyd - political thriller based on true facts. For more info please visit www.wmd-insidestory.com
Feature films in development - please visit www.patchwork-productions.co.uk
