Samuel Dale a brief biography: Samuel Dale began his film-making career in 1995 with the award winning short A day in the life of Jim-Paul Sartre, (the younger less well known brother of Jean,) which pioneered the use of digital technology to blend live action and animation. This process was refined over the course of the next year with the films DIY, Men in Shades and Dancing Bear. Samuel went on to make his live action debut with 1997’s epic short The Fabulous Mexicans. In the years that followed Samuel made several other short films before completing work on his first feature Euphoria Blackout in 2000, which was a finalist at a Berlin Film Festival. In 2001 Samuel formed Lo-Fi Films Ltd to produce his next feature Lazy days… Crazy nights and now uses the company to make and develop innovative short films and feature length projects.
Short Films as Writer / Director:
1995: A Day in the Life of Jim-Paul Sartre, (the Younger Less Well Known Brother of Jean)
1996: DIY / Men in Shades / Dancing Bear
1997: The Fabulous Mexicans / Pervert
1998: Jingle / Hunger
1999: Journey / Work in Progress / Tom the Horse and My Friends
2000: Hit and Run (with) Smear of Filth
2001: Regicide
2002: Paul and Jane
2004: Canning Town Fox
2005: Moon Girl / Panda / Anchors Away / My First Haircut / Agent Orange / Heather & Richard / The 68 Comeback Special / The All New Canning Town Fox Show / Mickey Dolenz’s Locker / Nessie’s Daughter
Feature Films as Writer / Director:
2000: Euphoria Blackout a drama in which a photographer records the end of the world as we know it.
2001: Lazy days… Crazy nights a comedy about a young singer who, in a bid for commercial success, undergoes a startling physical transformation.
Television as Writer:
KNTV: Six part educational series for Channel 4 (broadcast January 2006)
Acting Roles:
Harry: A delusional prison guard (Our Country’s Good 1996)
Ubu: A grotesque king (The Ubu Cycle 1997)
Jingle: A murderess dwarf (Jingle 1998)
Samuel: The biographer of an atrocious rock group (Hit and Run with Smear of Filth 2000)
Josh: An unhinged bass player (Lazy days… Crazy nights 2001)
Head Waiter: A clumsy waiter (The Return of Peg Leg Pete 2004)
Barney Banard: A hapless shoe salesman (Canning Town Fox 2004 / The All New Canning Town Fox Show 2005)
Samuel Dale
Lo-Fi Films Ltd
66 Lower Anchor Street
Chelmsford Essex CM2 0AU
+44 (0) 1245 600140
+44(0) 1245 355447
PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
The 8th Spy by Samuel Dale & John Bennetts
Young, intelligent and cursed with a spectacularly foolish name, Paris Dakota finds herself the prime suspect in a murder case when the cold war double agents she is writing a book about begin to die one by one. As the Police close in on her so do a group of criminals and Paris’ only hope of survival is to find the final member of the covert cell she was investigating before anyone else does.
To request a PDF copy of this script please send an email stating your name, company and contact details to spy@lofifilms.co.uk
A group of mismatched strangers find themselves trapped in a desert town where, following a botched government experiment, the populace have taken on the personalities of television characters and historical figures. The situation soon becomes life threatening when a group of locals, who believe themselves to be Nazis, set about taking over the town and the only people who can stop them are a priest that served in Vietnam, a cowardly salesman and an out and out idiot. However, even if they can defeat the Nazis they still have a group of kung-fu Nuns, a thermonuclear warhead and Japanese cowboy named Dallas Nagasaki to contend with.
To request a PDF copy of this script please send an email stating your name, company and contact details to meme@lofifilms.co.uk
Lo-Fi Films Ltd
66 Lower Anchor Street
Chelmsford
Essex
CM2 0AU
Fax: +44 (0) 1245 355447
Email: info@lofifilms.co.uk
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