New Town Utopia (2017) - The First 5 Minutes HD

The first 5 minutes of the documentary film New Town Utopia released in 2018. A film about the state of the nation, the power of art... and some rather angry puppets. NOW AVAILABLE TO BUY ONLINE + DVD. FOR MORE INFO GO TO: WWW.NEWTOWNUTOPIA.COM Produced and Directed by Christopher Ian Smith (citizensmith.net) and Executive Produced by Margaret Matheson (Sid and Nancy, Scum, Sleep Furiously). CREDITS Featuring MARC BARNACLE SHAUN BADHAM PENNY BETTERIDGE TERRY BIRD STUART BROWN PHIL BURDETT RALPH DARTFORD VIN HARROP BARRY HAYES RICHARD HAWKINS JOE HYMAS KATH JOYCE-BANKS PAT JOYCE OLMO LAZARUS RICHARD LEE ROB MARLOW JOE MORGAN VINCE O’CONNELL SUE RYDER PAGET MIKE PARKER WENDY TAYLOR STEVE WATERS TIM WILLIAMS Produced, Filmed and Directed by CHRISTOPHER IAN SMITH Executive Producers TERRY BIRD MARGARET MATHESON The voice of Lewis Silkin JIM BROADBENT Music GREG HAINES Editors NEIL LENTHALL CHRISTOPHER IAN SMITH Edit Assistant NOEMIE PHILIPPSON 2nd Edit Assistant SEBASTIANO DELL’EVA Additional Editing ED COLTMAN OANA MARIN RUSU Colourist BRENDAN BUCKINGHAM Sound Design ROBIN GREEN Dubbing Mixer STEVE COOKMAN Additional Cinematography PAUL MICHAEL ANGELL LEWIS DAVIES FRANCIS QURESHI Camera Operator CARLOS CALIKA JAY LAKER TOM MARCHBANKS MATTHEW ROWLEY Assistant Producers ANNEKA HASKINS NATALYA MYKHAYLYUK Production Assistants ROXANNA GHIRBOMEAN GREG HORNER LUBNA SALAD LEAH YVONNE REVIVO PAUL VERNON Researchers WILL ALMOND SHARON KITS ANNA KIDEL KENO KATSUDA CHRISTY O’NEIL MEGAN ROURKE HIMANSHU SHARMA Marketing Assistants AMANDA SOON DAVIDE RAMBALDI Additional Music The Face Of Dorian Gray Written and Performed by ROBERT MARLOW Additional Footage Basildon – Our Town Produced by WOODLANDS SCHOOL Community Produced by NEW TOWN FILMS Archive KINOLIBRARY Personal collection STEPHEN BALDWIN Rant n’ Rave at The Roundacre SANDRA BROWN Personal collection RITA CLARK Personal collection DEAN CLARKE Personal collection DAWN DERRICK Personal collection PAUL DODD City 19 at The Towngate DEAN FENNER Personal collection STEVEN HASTINGS Personal collection DAVE HAWKINS Jelly Pinnacle at The Roundacre MARK LANGRIDGE Land at The Roundacre PAUL PROGRAM Personal collection IAN ROUGH Personal collection ROB WOOD Artworks featured Morning by Shaun Badham Mosaic by GEOFFREY CLARK Christ by T.B. HUXLEY JONES Devourer Of Souls by ALAN JOYCE There’s A Spectre Haunting Europe by ALAN JOYCE Mother and Child by MAURICE LAMBERT After The Uprising by ROBERT KOENIG The Chessmen by WILLIAM MITCHELL Man Aspires by AJ POOLE The Compass Bowl by WENDY TAYLOR Animal Fresco by WENDY TAYLOR Armillary Sundial by WENDY TAYLOR Why? by CLIVE WAKEFORD Cockroach by LUKE ‘DANE’ WARBURTON Funding Producers (through Kickstarter) DAVE AMIS MARK BEECHILL SIMON CARTER DN&CO TIM COLLINS RICHARD N CRABTREE GRAEME DAVIDSON GEORGE GREEN GARY HARSENT CARSTEN HERMANN KEN + THELMA HIBBELER BEN LEWIS AMANDA LOOMES DEBORA KNIGHTS MIM MACMAHON TOM MARCHBANKS MICHAEL R POT