Filmography
of movies written, directed or produced by Ed Hartwell
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THE DAY THE ROBOTS WOKE UP - Writer/Director - 2009 |
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Christmas Trees Cost Lives - Director - 2007 |
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Tumbleweed in London - Director - 2007 |
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Bus Kong - Writer/Animation/music - 2006 |
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Finger Kingdom - Writer/Director/Producer/Voices - 2005 |
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Time Looters - Writer/Director/Puppets - 2005 |
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Revenge of the Ninja Assassin - Producer/DOP/Actor - 2005 |
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The Knights Quest to the Land of the Giants - Writer/Director/Voices - 2005 |
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Battle At The Serenity Temple - Producer/DOP - 2004 |
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Phone Bill - Writer/Director/Puppets - 2003 |
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Volume Wars - Writer/Director/Puppets - 2002 |
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Dear Lives - Producer/sfx/music/1st ad - 2002 |
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The Thing From Outer Space - Writer/Director/Puppets/Models/Actor - 1994 |
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Jungle Squad - Co-Writer/Actor - 1993 |
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Headstone - Co-Producer/Actor - 1992 |
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THE DAY THE ROBOTS WOKE UP
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Short Film 2009 at Sci-Fi London.
The story takes place in a retro-futuristic world where tin robots are commonly seen working with man. After a comet hits the earth, all technology mysteriously stops working. London is plunged into the dark ages. With no machines, no robots, no electricity, not even working cars, the people flee the city in search of a place unaffected by the mysterious comet. London is left empty and quiet for many years until today, when the old tin robots suddenly wake up!
Tumbleweed in London
A
film made in collaboration with artist Claire Blundell Jones.
The film follows "Tumbleweed Girl" as she travels through London
moving a tumbleweed along with a leaf blower.
Bus Kong
"inspired and very funny" - Nick Park
Winner of the Farewell Routemaster Film Challenge
http://www.farewellroutemaster.co.uk
"Ed
Hartwell's 'Bus Kong' is a delicious animated political cartoon that exploits
the iconography of the Routemaster, London and a certain giant ape movie with
bold witty simplicity, pitching our hero against a feral bendy-bus and an
even more sinister foe…"
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Ben Walters, Time Out Magazine.
Finger Kingdom
"a
future cult classic. It had our audiences rolling in the aisles"
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Jerry Morgan, Groovy Movie Picture House
Click here to enter the Finger Kingdom website
A series of 6 tales from Finger Kingdom.
Time Looters
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Rupert Tofton builds a time machine and intends to use it to steal a treasure map from Big Beard the pirate.
Revenge of the Ninja Assassin
Cops, Ninjas and Vigilantes.
Phone Bill
Proto and Monster star in Puppets Behaving Madly, an exciting tale of get rich quick schemes and over priced telecommunications. This is ... PHONE BILL.
Battle At The Serenity Temple
Returning home from running an errand for his father, our hero reaches his family school only to find his master slain! After finally seizing control of his raging emotions, our hero brings himself to look upon the bloody scene. As our hero tries to tend to his father, he finds a scribbled note placed on his father's lifeless body. The note read:
I'LL BE WAITING AT THE SERENITY TEMPLE RUINS, IT IS NOT EASY TO FIND BUT THE FAMILY MARK WILL SHOW YOU THE PATH.
I WILL BE WAITING!
Volume Wars
Those puppets are behaving madly again when Proto and Monster find out who has got the loudest stereo.
The Knights Quest To The Land Of The Giants
After a close encounter with the local council over planning permission, the king sends the knight to the land of the giants.
The Princess and The Dragon
A tale from a time long ago when there were kingdoms, knights, dragons, clangers and robotic rubber hamsters.