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I'm Phil Hawkins and I'm a director. Feature films, commercials, music videos... you name it. Some people have also been nice enough to give me awards. This is my blog. "One of the best new and upcoming directors" - Steven Spielberg Two times winner of Best Director for a Feature at the New York Independent Film Festival for "The Butterfly Tattoo" (2008) and "The Women of Troy (2006). Winner of "Best Film" at the London Independent Film Festival for "Being Sold" (2011)

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"Shockingly good... very innovative and thought provoking. Robert Englund is stunning" A new review of The Last Showing from Legless Corpse

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The Last Showing is now on Netflix UK!

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An interview with YAHOO! MOVIES about THE LAST SHOWING

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Here's the FULL TRAILER to THE LAST SHOWING, starring horror legend Robert Englund, Finn Jones (Game Of Thones), Emily Berrington (24: Live Another Day) and Keith Allen (The Others). I hope you enjoy it!

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New poster for THE LAST SHOWING. Visit the Facebook page for all the latest news.

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We're delighted to have been selected to screen as one of the main films at this year's Film4 FrightFest! Screening on 22nd August. Get your tickets here.

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THE LAST SHOWING release dates announced. We're hitting UK Cinemas on August 22nd followed by a DVD, Blu-Ray and Digital release on August 25th! You can pre-order here.

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Watch my latest short film BOOK 1 which was created by a very talented bunch of people in 48 hours for the Sci-Fi London Festival. We were a finalist in the competition judged by Danny Boyle.

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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have bought my feature film THE LAST SHOWING! I'm delighted to be working with a major studio on the release. More info here on Screen Daily.

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Brand film I directed featuring physical fire effects shot with the Phantom slow motion camera

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New commercial I directed for uSwitch featuring Philip Glenister (LIFE ON MARS)

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THE FLYING LESSON has been featured in Ain't it Cool News. #SaturdayShorts. A great accolade. Thanks guys! Click the image above to read.

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Trailer to my latest short A Day In The Life Of A Bathroom Mirror starring Tim McInnerny (Blackadder, Notting Hill)

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First look images from my feature The Last Showing featuring Robert Englung (Nightmare On Elm St), Finn Jones (Game Of Thones) and Emily Berrington (The White Queen) have been released! Thanks to all the news/blog sites that have featured them.

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First artwork for my feature The Last Showing, a psychological thriller starring Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger), Finn Jones (Game Of Thones), Emily Berrington (The White Queen) and Keith Allen (Shallow Grave). We now have a Facebook page so please head over and like for more images and updates. Thanks!

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The Last Showing

When a life-long projectionist (Robert Englund aka Freddy Krueger) is made redundant he looks to...

My latest movie THE LAST SHOWING starring Robert Englund (aka Freddy Krueger), Finn Jones (Game Of Thones), Emily Berrington (The White Queen) and Keith Allen (Trainspotting) has launched it's Facebook page. Do like the page for updates on the movie. Thanks!

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The Flying Lesson now online!

The Flying Lesson is an ambitious action/drama short film involving air-to-air stunt sequences with a vintage WWII Tiger Moth bi-plane.

After the recent death of her grandfather, Phoebe Sanderson (Jessica Blake) takes a flying lesson in the exact plane her grandfather flew in WWII, a recently restored Tiger Moth. With a sense of trepidation, she takes flight with a promise to keep. Only a chauvinistic flying instructor (Richard J. Fletcher) with a secret stands in her way...

The film was shot over 5 days mainly on a Canon C300 with some aerial unit footage shot on the Red and even a 5D Mark II. I became involved when Adrian Alexander (owner and stunt pilot of "Huffy The Tiger Moth") got in touch with a script from a new writer (Ian Bishop) and had already teamed up with James Oldham, an aspiring director of photography. After a few rewrites of the script to move it more into a story based short and away from previous drafts which were more stunt based, I came onboard as director and produced the short through my company The Philm Company in association with Frantic Film and Motley Flying Productions.

The film was edited by Alex Macleod using Adobe Premiere which, because of our mixed camera formats, worked brilliantly. The original score was composed by Richard Bodgers including our own arrangement of classical piece "In The Hall Of The Mountain King" which was an ambitious feat in itself!

We really wanted to create a short film that would 'raise the bar' of what is possible on a low budget with a team of talented, ambitious, like-minded folks. I'd never shot with aeroplanes or stunts before so I loved the challenge and also really pushed to try and create an cinematic short film. I must point out that this short has received no external/public funding and was shot on a very limited budget. It may not look it, but I guess that's the point! My heartfelt thanks to the talented cast, crew, pilots and facilities companies who made this short possible. We really couldn't have made it without you all. There are too many people to thank here but every single person in the credits (please watch!) were integral to creating this film. You can see a behind the scenes video here: youtube.com/watch?v=uK28eWRLN5Q

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We hope that you enjoy it.