Chris Hobart

He is a producer and director of Giant Vision, an Australian independent film and television company based in Sydney for the last 10 years.

Giant Vision is a team of film making collaborators, compromising wildly exciting ideas to create spectacular realities.

At present Chris is producing a children’s television series called “Deadly Tales”, and has a second series “From the Ramada Room” in development.

He has Directed and Produced over 60 short films around the world, and has recently worked on a feature ‘The Burial’ shot in France and the UK and is currently being released in Europe.

Chris believes film making is a process where ordinary people do extraordinary things, creating together to achieve one outcome – amazing story.

“I think there’s a good story at the heart of every person that dreams.”

Over the years Chris has become professional at drawing out those stories, drawing upon what he has around him, and drawing pictures with cameras with the people who believe. He has a feature film in development, ‘The Guillotine’, and has two other features being pitched for production off shore, ‘Brothers’ and ‘The Edge of the World’.

Chris has taught film making for the last 3 years in the United Kingdom and in Australia, he is also a professional screenwriter working as a script editor and script doctor for feature film projects around Australia and over seas. He has lived and worked as a film maker in Spain and the United Kingdom and all over Australia.

“Film making is all about collaborating, compromising and understanding what is crucial to the story. I look forward to collaborating on a film with you.”

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Filmography CV

Chris has worked in theatre, film and television as a writer, director, producer and actor over the last 20 years. He is tall in stature and big in dreams. He seeks stories about ordinary people who dream of bigger things. He also has an Advanced Diploma of Arts in Professional Screenwriting for Film Television and Digital Media, at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).

Film and Television

• “Kids on Film Project” Australia – Producer/Director, Video Editor, 2007
  A 10 Week film project creating a short fiml funded by the Mayor of Sydney and co-ordinated by The Factory Community Centre. Filmed on location in Our Lady of Mt Carmel, Sydney NSW. The film is based on an anti-bullying campaign run by the school and presents a message that ‘Being a Bully is Being Alone’.
• “Kids on Film Project” UK – Producer/Director, Video Editor, 2006
  A 12 month film project creating 20 short films in schools across the Nth East of England. Screened at: the North East Children & Young People’s Anti-Bullying Conference as part of the National Anti-Bullying Week 2006: The Royal Television Video Showcase and ‘Little Big Shots International Film Festival for Kids’ – Melbourne 2008
• “The Burial” – script editor, actor, director and camera operator for DVD extras. 2006.
  A feature film following the journey of 4 siblings as they travel across Europe to bury their mother. Filmed on location in France and the UK.
• ‘Saphine’ – script doctor, producer, actor, 2004.
  A short film depicting a series of unfortunate events for a husband as he tried to get his wife to the hospital for the birth of their third child. Filmed on location at Stocktone General Hospital including the live water birth of ‘Saphine’.
• ‘Marty’ – Co-producer, director, script editor, actor. 2002.
  Screened at the St Kilda Film Festival and Upstart Film Festival, Melbourne. “Marty” is a short film about three high school students who manage to think beyond their poverty, out-maneuver their teachers, and swindle their class mates, all for a pair of running shoes. Screened on location at Westbourne Park College with 100 extras, 12 buses and 5 spiders (that needed to feed every night with moths) “Marty” was a production challenge and personal achievement.
• ‘Seven to Thirty’ – writer, producer, director, actor. 1999
  A Short Film about a ruthless publisher Gunther Wooden, two hit men: Billy Bunter and Leather Clad Buccaneer, a paranoid author Tinda Darly, and the demise of all and sundry. Filmed across 20 different locations including Melbourne Crown Casino, Melbourne Trams, Melbourne Flinders Street Station and a stretched limousine.
• ‘Australia’s Most Wanted’ – actor. 1998
  Performed in the re-enactment of crimes for the Channel 7 Australia’s series. The series intended to expose public awareness of current criminals in Australia.

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Chris Hobart directing

Corporate and Documentary

• ‘Slinky Love’ – actor. 2004 – 2005.
  Performer at corporate and international street theatre events in Spain, Germany, Italy, Holland, America, Canada, Ireland and the U.K. for “BedlamOz”, international street theatre company.
• ‘Grafooty’ – director, camera, editor. 2004.
  A short video clip style documentary following 100 Stockton local teenagers as they develop skills in dance, drumming and trapeze. Commissioned by Connections and screened at the Arc Cinema, Teesside.
• BP Australia, BP Air Safety – development, writer, roll player. 2004.
  Developed and wrote scripts for role playes that would communicated Advanced Safety Audit content in a way that involved and engaged the participants of an international BP Air Safety Conference. Chris was also involved in performing the scripts.
• Fitzroy Reds Football Club – producer/director/writer. 2003.
  A 40-second advertorial, commissioned by the Fitzroy Football Club for the Centenary Celebrations of Football in Australia. Screened at Melbourne International Cricket Ground during the 2003 Centenary Match to an audience of 70,000.
• “Grass Roots” – writer, producer, presenter, camera. 2003.Commissioned by the Fitzroy Reds Football Club, this documentary looks at the importance of amateur football to the surrounding community, the history of Fitzroy, the club, and its players.
• ‘Denham, more than Genes’ – writer, producer, director, camera. 2001.
  Commissioned by the Richmond Fellowshop of Victoria, this is a short film depicting a day in the life of seven young people diagnosed with mental illness.
• ‘Courage & Confidence’ – writer, producer, director, camera. 2000
  Commissioned by the Richmond Fellowshop of Victoria, ‘Courage and Confidence’ is a documentary about four elderly women and their struggle with depression.
• ‘On the corner of psychosis and main’ – writer, producer, director, camera. 2000
  A documentary presenting the hopes and dreams of people diagnosed with mental illness. Exposing the preconceived ideas the wider community has about mental illness from the perspective of those who suffer it.
• ‘The violence free zone’ – writer, producer, director. 1997.
  A documentary about violence in Primary School. Commissioned by the Brisbane City Council.
• ‘Woe to Go’ – writer, producer, director. 1994
  A short film involving three stories developed and acted by disadvantaged youth. Commissioned by the Galilee Project; an Australia Capital Territory Government Initiative.