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		Welcome to the website for The Hunt For Gollum; a 45 minute independent film inspired by The Lord of the Rings which is to be released to the internet for free on May 3 2009. 30 March 2009 - Premiere SCI-FI-LONDON! We are excited to announce that the premiere of the Hunt For Gollum will be at SCI-FI-LONDON on May 3rd 2009. The festival is a major event in Fantasy and Sci-Fi film and the TH4G team will be proud to be there. The film will be screened for free to the public and festival goers. The limited tickets will be available for members fo the public for free reservation through SCI-FI-LONDON. more info: www.sci-fi-london.com/ 20 Feb 2009 - Running time & Press As the editing gets finalised this week and visual effects reach their final deadlines, it's looking like the film will now be 45 minutes long! This may change further but we'll see how it goes! Also TH4G has been featured recently in the press on Dark Horizons and Rope of Silicon. Meanwhile the team are working hard to deliver the film to you for May 3rd. 02 Feb 2009 - Release Date Announced!! We are pleased to announce that the Hunt For Gollum will go live on the evening of May 3rd 2009 for free streaming of the full film on this website and simultaneously at a major festival. Further details on the release and any festival screenings will follow. 19 Dec 2008 - NEW - FULL LENGTH TRAILER!! We are proud to present the first full length trailer for The Hunt For Gollum This shows the first real in depth look at the style and atmosphere of the film, introducing all the key characters in the Hunt! Link: Trailer 1 Other download formats: here 17 Dec 2008 - SFX Online interview Adrian Webster... Adrian Webster (Strider) has been recently interviewed about his role in the film by SFX magazine. Check it out here: read full SFX Interview 04 Dec 2008 - BBC Radio 6 music interviews director... Namone on Radio 6 music did an interview with director Chris Bouchard on her BBC show. download mp3 of interview here 02 Dec 2008 - Metro, IMDB & Release Dates... We'd like to announce that things are getting close to completion. The film will be completed in early 2009. We're working as hard as we can to finish the film before February, but there's a huge amount of work for our sound, music, visual effects and editing crew... We won't release it until it's as good as it can be! Watch out for further announcements around Christmas. In the meantime TH4G has been featured in London's Metro and has been added to IMDB here. While you're waiting for the film don't forget to check out our trailers page. 17 Nov 2008 - Don't forget it's just a home movie... Don't forget folks, this production is just an unofficial home movie, made by a bunch of Tolkien enthusiasts for love of the material. The budget has been scraped together by ourselves, nobody was paid and no money will be made from it. So yep it's purely our way to express our tribute to this magical world. It's exciting that so many other fans like us have posted supporting words on our guestbook. Thank you all for your kind comments and support! The editing of the film will take a lot of work but we hope to put it online in early 2009. 4 Nov 2008 - It's a wrap! (Almost)... Yep we're finally there. Lead actor Adrian has wrapped all his scenes and the post production team are diving into the rough cut, complete with punchy sound design and ambitious CGI. All that remains is to film 7 shots of a horse this Sunday and then we're ready to set our release date. This we intend to be end of December, although we may decide to push it back to January to make sure everything is completed to the highest standards.
		15 Oct 2008 - Final day of shooting approaches... The past two months been very busy on the production, with filming of several key scenes and some familiar characters. This week the team is gearing up for the very last shoot of the film which sees Strider (Adrian Webster) meet a new foe. It's been an emotional ride for all the team involved so far, and we'll be sad to finish the filming but this brings us on to the next exciting stage - post production. Editor Lewis Albrow has put together a rough cut of the film so far and we're now polishing it up as we slot the final scenes into place. Simultaneously a team of sound designers and visual effects guys are beginning work on making Middle Earth look and sound as magical as it should. We hope to announce our predicted online release date soon and a new full length trailer. 14 Aug 2008 - Behind The Scenes sneak peek Follow us behind the scenes and see how the filmmakers are producing The Hunt For Gollum on such a low budget in our all new Behind The Scenes section. Features so far cover the Art Department, Fight Team, Visual Effects plus Q&As with key team members. Check it out!
		28 July 2008 - NEW TEASER TRAILER!! We are proud to present the brand new teaser 2 . Named "Return to Middle Earth", it shows a lot more of The Hunt For Gollum and will give you a taster of what is to come. We hope you enjoy it. Feel free to post any comments in our guestbook. Quicktime version or flash version. 16 Jun 2008 - Orcs on set!!! After the spectacular Orc shoot last month, the team are now preparing a short shoot at an Elven location, as well as starting the editing process on Hunt For Gollum. Click the image for more on our blog!! 14 Apr 2008 - Storyboards, Posters and Orcs approaching... Preparations are on track and last minute recruitment is happening right now as the team gears up for the biggest set piece of the film, to be shot at a forest near London. 3 weeks today the production will be on set shooting a 4 day fight shoot. We're all very excited to complete this and the art department is blitzing costume and props to get everthing looking the best it can. In the meantime, we've uploaded a first look at some of our storyboards by Jenni Shoesmith plus brand new posters by our designer Carlos Avina and our printable info pack for you to download. Check them out! 10 Mar 2008 - More shooting & Party An excellent last 3 weeks have been really busy. Several fight choreography sessions for a scene shooting in May, excellent progress on costume making and props as well as DAY 5 of the shoot completed on 20th Feb with a horse & two Rangers. Also completed our Hunt For Gollum fund-raiser party last night, where we showed a preview of a new trailer. They're not quite finished yet but they showcase much more of the film (we haven't shown much yet of course!) 7 days of principal photography remain! 31 Jan 2008 - Recent shoots We've just completed a shoot last Sunday, in 2 forest locations around London and are now preparing for another day of filming in mid February. It was a very successful shoot which brings us up to 25% of the film shot. read more on the blog... 3 Jan 2008 - The Hunt For Gollum official website launch. Here the finished film will be released on completion, along with lots of stills, photos and behind the scenes media. For previous updates check out our The Hunt For Gollum Blog which has all the latest news on the production.