Oxford, city of dreaming spires, jewel of the South East. Proud muse of Tolkien, Carroll, Hardy.
In 2015 a writer, an actor and a wrestler took to Oxford’s fair streets on a guerrilla film shoot and joined the ranks of the inspired.
Like the street sculpture they beheld that day these men were gritty and dogged, determined to make their film no matter what.
And at this humble altar our pilgrims’ disparate paths did coalesce, and from thenceforth, and forever more, they were sand dogs.
The
Story
In 2016 Chris’s screenplay Freewheeler reached the semi-finals of the Bluecat Screenwriting competition (top 65 scripts out of more than 4,400) and was one of four finalists for Bluecat’s best British screenplay award out of more than 400 UK entries.
Since then Chris has written, produced and directed two short films (check them out above) and completed several more scripts in preparation for his imminent feature debut.
About Chris
(the pretentious bit)
My goal as a writer is to tell original, intelligent stories that nobody has seen before. Whether that’s character-driven comedy that approaches issues such as love and death with fresh philosophical perspectives, or plot-driven noir that tackles uncharted subject matter.
I believe writers have a duty to be ambitious in their storytelling, and the search for new narrative terrain within universal ontological concepts such as consciousness and reality, or within the symbiotic relationship between the social and the psychological, is what continues to excite and inspire me as a writer.
Chris Tolley, excited and inspired
