New Town Utopia (2017) - The First 5 Minutes

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 POTTER
JONATHAN PRESTON
RAJ RANDHAWA
SIMON SEGARS
CHLOE SMITH
KOSALA UBAYASEKARA

Special Thanks
The people of Basildon, all Kickstarter supporters, Blackdroid, Adam Brown, Basildon Council, Basildon Heritage Centre, Bas Productions, Sue Bayles, Mark Beechill, Marilyn Bellamy, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Essex, Brutalist Architecture In The Sun, The Castlemayne, Everyone at Contented Brothers, Jo Cullen, dn&co, Eastgate Gallery, Fire At Dawn, Liam Garvo, The Edge, The Evening Echo, Gately Freeman, Lewis Hare, Warren Harper, Steve Hooker, Lisa Horner, Guy Hulse, Nina Humphrey, Ian Irving, Rob Kubicki, James McConachie, The Mill, John Murphy, Rob Wood, Jonny Matfin, Max Newton, Phoenix FM, Ken Porter, Helena Rivera, Chloe Smith, Ian and Sue Smith, Louise Smith, Wendy Taylor, The TCPA, The Thalian Society, Charlie Thompson, The Towngate Theatre, Christine Townley, Troika, Cassie Wiles, Penny Wiles, The Yellow Advertiser, Wat Tyler Country Park

A CULT MODERN Production.

Website: https://www.citizensmith.net/
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Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/christopheriansmith