Chris Bouchard
Chris Bouchard is a British film producer and director of The [Hunt for Gollum], an independent The [Lord of the Rings (film series)|Lord of the Rings] fan film. The budget was kept to £3,000 using crowd-sourced visual effects. The film was released on streaming platforms in May 2009. In its first week it was the fourth most watched film in the US, after X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Star Trek, and "a romantic comedy starring Matthew McConaughey." As of May 2024, it had been watched by 13 million people.
Bouchard went on to direct feature-length crime drama Hackney’s Finest in 2014, which was produced by London film studio Framestore. In 2018 he co-directed The [Little Mermaid (2018 film)|The Little Mermaid], which was released on Netflix. The film starred Shirley MacLaine, Poppy Drayton, William [Moseley (actor)|William Moseley] and Loreto Peralta.