Brian Trenchard-Smith
Nascimento : , England
História
Brian Trenchard-Smith is an Anglo Australian film and television director, producer, and writer, with a reputation for large scale movies on small scale budgets, many of which display a quirky sense of humor that has earned him a cult following. Quentin Tarantino referred to him in Entertainment Weekly as one of his favorite directors. His early work is featured in Not Quite Hollywood, an award winning documentary released by Magnolia. Among his early successes were the 20th Century Fox release The Man from Hong Kong, a wry James Bond/Chop Sockey cocktail, the Vietnam battle movie Siege of Firebase Gloria, and the futuristic satire Dead End Drive-In, a particular Tarantino favorite. BMX Bandits, showcasing a 15-year old Nicole Kidman, and Miramax's The Quest, starring ET's Henry Thomas, won prizes at children's film festivals in Montreal and Europe. He has also directed 35 episodes of television series as diverse as Silk Stalkings, Time Trax, The Others, and Flipper. Born in England, where his Australian father was in the RAF, Trenchard-Smith attended UK's prestigious Wellington College, where he neglected studies in favor of acting and making short films, before migrating to Australia. He started as a news film editor, then graduated to network promos before he became one of a group of young people that, as he recalls, "pushed, shoved, lobbied and bullied the government into introducing investment for Australian made films." He persuaded Australia's largest distribution-exhibition circuit at the time, the Greater Union Theater Organization, to form an in-house production company that he would run. The company made three successful films in a row, and his career was underway. In parallel careers, he was also founding editor of Australia's quarterly Movie magazine for 6 years, and has made over 100 trailers for other directors in Australia, Europe, and America. Among his 39 movies, 5 were commissioned by Showtime, including the remake of the World War II classic, Sahara, the highly rated, Happy Face Murders, starring Ann-Margret, and DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, with Timothy Bottoms as President Bush. His frequently repeated family drama for Lifetime, Long Lost Son starring Gabrielle Anwar, introduced future Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford to audiences in the title role." I knew from his first scene, he was going to be hot." In 2009, Trenchard-Smith shot Porky's - The College Years, a re-imagining of the famous 80's franchise of teen comedies. His recent ecological thriller Arctic Blast, starring Michael Shanks, was chosen to premiere at the 2010 Possible Worlds Canadian Film Festival in Sydney. Trenchard-Smith writes for filmindustrybloggers.com as The Genre Director, and is a contributing guru to trailersfromhell.com. He is married to Byzantine historian Dr. Margaret Trenchard-Smith, lives in Los Angeles, and is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Self
David Gregory and Kier-La Janisse take a detailed look at the history of horror anthology films with the help of more than sixty writers, genre specialists, and members of the film industry.
Self
A fantástica história de como uma antiga arte marcial, o kung fu chinês, conquistou o mundo através das centenas de filmes que foram produzidos em Hong Kong ao longo das décadas, transformou o cinema de ação ocidental e inspirou o nascimento de vários movimentos culturais.
Executive Producer
In the wake of a shocking civilian massacre in a foreign war zone, disgraced Navy SEAL Rick Tyler is sentenced to rot in a maximum security military prison until he is offered the opportunity to put his life on the line to win his freedom. A one-man force of nature, Tyler will have to take-on and take-down some of the world's most ruthless killers in some of the world's most brutal locations to win the game, obtain his freedom and find out why he was set up. The question is, can he accomplish all of this before Game On is Game Over?
Screenplay
Peter Roberts (Thomas Jane), um ex-piloto de corrida automotiva, tornou-se instrutor de motorista e durante uma de suas aulas é sequestrado por Simon Keller (John Cusack), que supostamente seria um aluno como qualquer outro. O sequestrador misterioso força ele a participar de um crime que coloca ambos na mira da polícia e da máfia, desencadeando uma perseguição.
Director
Peter Roberts (Thomas Jane), um ex-piloto de corrida automotiva, tornou-se instrutor de motorista e durante uma de suas aulas é sequestrado por Simon Keller (John Cusack), que supostamente seria um aluno como qualquer outro. O sequestrador misterioso força ele a participar de um crime que coloca ambos na mira da polícia e da máfia, desencadeando uma perseguição.
Director
A viúva de um repórter pede ajuda a um agente federal para investigar segredos do seu falecido marido, mas os dois se tornam alvo de ataques desconhecidos.
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Um casal de pais solteiros, que cada um levou seus filhos a um remoto resort escocês para um evento anual de família e jogos, é acidentalmente reservado para a mesma cabine. Naturalmente, eles não suportam um ao outro ... no começo.
Himself
In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind of movie they wanted, any way they pleased. It was a country with extremely lax labor regulations and a very permissive attitude towards cultural expression. As a result, it became a hotbed for the production of cheapie movies. Their history and the genre itself are detailed in this breezy, nostalgic documentary.
Director
Quando um eclipse solar manda uma enorme onda de frio para a Terra, da inicio a uma catastrófica série de eventos que pode reiniciar a era do gelo.
Producer
Um tremor submarino liberta seis tubarões pré-históricos que rumam famintos para as praias de Malibu. O grupo de salva-vidas do local vai ter que encarar os monstros e ainda enfrentar um tsunami que os levará cidade adentro.
Director
Three college buddies search for sex in the summer holidays and end up starting a successful whorehouse.
Self
Quando o cinema australiano alcançou o público internacional na década de 1970 por meio de filmes de arte respeitados como Picnic na Montanha Misteriosa (1975), de Peter Weir, um novo underground de cineastas de exploração de baixo orçamento estava produzindo consideravelmente menos filmes intelectuais. O documentarista Mark Hartley explora esta era desenfreada de sexo e violência, completa com clipes de alguns dos filmes mais ultrajantes e entrevistas com os próprios cineastas renegados.
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The Aztecs summoned a Tyrannosaurus Rex to keep Cortes and his army out of Mexico. Now they need the Conquistadors' help to stop the T-Rex from killing them all.
Director
A woman discovers the son she thought had drowned is alive and well, living with the man who kidnapped him.
Producer
Quando o avião do vice-presidente desce perto de uma remota ilha do Pacífico, ele é sequestrado por forças rebeldes e mantido como resgate. Cabe a sua agente do Serviço Secreto e à secretária de imprensa infiltrar-se no campo e salvá-lo.
Director
Quando o avião do vice-presidente desce perto de uma remota ilha do Pacífico, ele é sequestrado por forças rebeldes e mantido como resgate. Cabe a sua agente do Serviço Secreto e à secretária de imprensa infiltrar-se no campo e salvá-lo.
Producer
In the cold, dark waters off North Korea a U.S. Navy fast attack submarine meets with a mysterious disaster - it's attacked and nearly sunk by an ominous stealth submarine resulting in the deaths of the Executive Officer and the Engineering Officer.
Director
In the cold, dark waters off North Korea a U.S. Navy fast attack submarine meets with a mysterious disaster - it's attacked and nearly sunk by an ominous stealth submarine resulting in the deaths of the Executive Officer and the Engineering Officer.
Director
This is the story of the days directly after 9/11, and the president's whereabouts. Scheduled to air shortly before the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks, DC 9/11 takes an inside look at the Bush Administration, beginning with the day of the attacks, and following the President's journey to Ground Zero, culminating with his now famous national address nine days after the attacks.
Producer
Arrived to the tropical island of Barsarato to spend a short vacation with her eighteen years old son, Dr. Linda Fleming (Melody Thomas Scott), teacher and expert virologist, is providing relief to people affected by a virulent disease caused by an unknown virus transmitted to humans by chickens. Her generous efforts will be wasted by poor local hospitals and the low cooperation of the people who puts blind faith in Joseph (Ralf Moeller), a sort of healer with exceptional charisma and leader of a religious community that preaches faith in God and enhances the remedies of alternative medicine.
Director
Arrived to the tropical island of Barsarato to spend a short vacation with her eighteen years old son, Dr. Linda Fleming (Melody Thomas Scott), teacher and expert virologist, is providing relief to people affected by a virulent disease caused by an unknown virus transmitted to humans by chickens. Her generous efforts will be wasted by poor local hospitals and the low cooperation of the people who puts blind faith in Joseph (Ralf Moeller), a sort of healer with exceptional charisma and leader of a religious community that preaches faith in God and enhances the remedies of alternative medicine.
Director
The crew of a reality-TV show about the paranormal visits a small Kansas town to investigate a house that may be haunted.
Writer
When a deadly assassin hijacks a passenger train, he threatens to detonate a deadly can of poison that can wipe out an entire city, if he isn't given a 25 million dollar Ransom. While the cops are attempting to thwart the madman, they decide to call Former DEA agent Paul Blake (Antonio Sabato, Jr) the one man who can possibly stop the fiendish plot.
Director
When a deadly assassin hijacks a passenger train, he threatens to detonate a deadly can of poison that can wipe out an entire city, if he isn't given a 25 million dollar Ransom. While the cops are attempting to thwart the madman, they decide to call Former DEA agent Paul Blake (Antonio Sabato, Jr) the one man who can possibly stop the fiendish plot.
Director
O mundo está à beria do Apocalipse. A batalha final entre o Bem e o Mal acontece no vale de Megiddo, antiga palavra hebraica para o local conhecido como Armageddon. Forças do Mal acumularam um exército poderoso para uma guerra que joga um continente contra o outro, uma nação contra a outro e irmão contra irmão.
Writer
Uma história de uma versão fictícia do navio irmão do Titanic, com os dois protagonistas Vera Campbell e Reynolds, que tiveram lidar com os espiões Alemães antes do navio afundar pela explosão.
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Uma história de uma versão fictícia do navio irmão do Titanic, com os dois protagonistas Vera Campbell e Reynolds, que tiveram lidar com os espiões Alemães antes do navio afundar pela explosão.
Director
An eccentric older woman implicates her brutal & controlling lover in the murder of a young retarded girl. Absorbed with "Murder She Wrote" and "Matlock", she creates details of the murder from clues she picks up from the detectives on the case. Implicating herself and sentenced to jail, she then recants her testimony. But no one believes her until clues surface from the real killer that he is still out there, has killed before, and will kill again. He signs his messages with Happy Faces.
Director
When a pooch is irradiated by a nuclear plant and threatens the town, only a teenage boy can redeem him.
Director
An infectious disease researcher is on a cruise with her daughter when an ebola-type virus attacks the ship's passengers and crew.
Director
Dr. Paul Sorenson, a noted astronomer, believes that an approaching comet will collide with earth based on his study of an ancient civilization's prophetic timeline. Frustrated by his inability to convince other scientists of the threat, Sorenson and a band of followers take over a nuclear missile silo. The FBI enlists the help of Sorenson's daughter Katherine, who is also a respected scientist, with the hope she can convince her father to surrender the missile silo. Katherine's research supports her father's thesis. She enlists the help of Paul, an FBI agent assigned to keep her under guard, in her quest to convince the scientific community of the imminent threat to the planet. Written by Dennis Lewis
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Em sua quarta aventura, o Duende reaparece no futuro, desta vez numa galáxia distante e dentro de uma nave espacial, aterrorizando um grupo de fuzileiros espaciais que ousaram libertar a bela princesa Zarina de suas garras.
Director
O pesadelo do executivo Richard Ramsay começa quando descobre que sua esposa contratou pistoleiro para assassiná-lo. Quando ela aparece morta, a polícia acredita que foi ele o mandante e ele deve desvendar a trama e provar sua inocência.
Director
Em Las Vegas, o estudante Scott encontra moeda de ouro da sorte e começa a ganhar fortuna no jogo. Mas a moeda pertence ao terrível Duende, que volta à ativa para recuperá-la, aterrorizando o estudante, sua namorada, e todos aqueles que ousam cruzar seu caminho.
Director
Este remake do filme de 1943 mostra a tripulação de um tanque americano e um bando de combatentes contra uma brigada nazista determinada a controlar um poço no deserto.
Director
Na noite de Halloween, adolescentes invadem uma mansão sombria para uma festa que não demora muito para virar pesadelo, com esqueletos literalmente saindo dos armários.
Director
A UFO abductee joins a secret government agency in order to communicate with the sole surviving alien of a downed spacecraft.
Thanks
Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement.
Director
A Marine patrol stops at Firebase Gloria at the start of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam war. With the firebase attacked, the patrol remains to help defend it. The Marines barely hold off the VC (Viet Cong), but in the end, hold the base.
Director
Jason Blade is a man who can't bring himself to commit fully to his woman, and who spends all his time with a special crime task force taking on assignments to fight crime and right wrong do-ers. When his love is kidnapped by his arch-enemy the race is on to get into the power station where she is being held and battle an army of ninjas. Only then can he face Baxter, his arch-enemy, and stop a bomb from exploding to save his sweetheart, and show her that he is a man. A man who can commit. A man who is strong.
Director
An invisible force is killing women in Sydney and stealing their eyes.
Additional Dialogue
A martial-arts expert goes after a criminal gang and its boss, who were responsible for the death of his partner.
Director
A martial-arts expert goes after a criminal gang and its boss, who were responsible for the death of his partner.
Writer
Grant Page & friends demonstrate stunts all over the world.
Director
Grant Page & friends demonstrate stunts all over the world.
Director
In the near future, drive-in theatres are turned into concentration camps for the undesirable and unemployed. The prisoners don't really care to escape because they are fed and they have a place to live which is, in most cases, probably better than the outside. Crabs and his girlfriend Carmen are put into the camp and all Crabs wants to do is escape.
Director
Cody (Henry Thomas) é um garoto órfão americano que vive com o seu tutor na Austrália. Ele decide investigar, por conta própria, estranhos acontecimentos em um parque, que podem estar associados com uma lenda aborígene.
Director
A woman moves away from her boyfriend because she suspects his feelings towards her pre-teen daughter. He tries to find them in the sordid side of Melbourne.
Director
Três ciclistas encontram dois walkie-talkies perdidos e os vendem para uns amigos. Só que os aparelhos eram de uma perigosa quadrilha de roubo a bancos. Os ciclistas acabam se metendo numa enrascada, pois os bandidos começam a persegui-los.
Co-Producer
An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.
Director
In the near future, after an unspecified holocaust, survivors are herded into prison camps. There, they are hunted for sport by the leaders of the camp. Paul, one of the newest prisoners, is determined not to go down as quietly as the others.
Director
Treasure hunters from around the world race to Mexico after a Middle Eastern luxury yacht explodes, sending a Shah's fortune and mysterious document to the bottom of the ocean.
Screenplay
Australian stuntman Grant Page goes to Los Angeles to work on a television series. He uses his spare time to lend his expertise to rock band Sorcery. Page helps the band develop pyrotechnic magic tricks for their shows, and also recounts to his own exploits as a stuntman and daredevil as well as various stunts by other greats.
Director
Australian stuntman Grant Page goes to Los Angeles to work on a television series. He uses his spare time to lend his expertise to rock band Sorcery. Page helps the band develop pyrotechnic magic tricks for their shows, and also recounts to his own exploits as a stuntman and daredevil as well as various stunts by other greats.
Director
A fire breaks out in a multi-story hospital in the middle of the night and a male nurse and a nursing sister save many lives during a fire in a major hospital.
Producer
Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.
Story
Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.
Hit & Run Director
Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.
Director
Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.
Henchman in elevator shaft
Inspetor Fang Sing Leng, um policial de Hong Kong, chega a Sydney, Austrália, com uma missão: prender Jack Wilton, um poderoso traficante de drogas que esconde sua vida criminosa por trás da fachada de milionário filantropo e poderoso na cidade.
Screenplay
Inspetor Fang Sing Leng, um policial de Hong Kong, chega a Sydney, Austrália, com uma missão: prender Jack Wilton, um poderoso traficante de drogas que esconde sua vida criminosa por trás da fachada de milionário filantropo e poderoso na cidade.
Director
Inspetor Fang Sing Leng, um policial de Hong Kong, chega a Sydney, Austrália, com uma missão: prender Jack Wilton, um poderoso traficante de drogas que esconde sua vida criminosa por trás da fachada de milionário filantropo e poderoso na cidade.
Writer
This Australian educational documentary concerns venereal disease in the pre-AIDS era and reveals that it is a problem that should be taken seriously by everyone — whether young or old, gay or straight. Factual segments are interspersed with humorous skits depicting how people of varying degrees of innocence can contract awful but treatable diseases.
Director
This Australian educational documentary concerns venereal disease in the pre-AIDS era and reveals that it is a problem that should be taken seriously by everyone — whether young or old, gay or straight. Factual segments are interspersed with humorous skits depicting how people of varying degrees of innocence can contract awful but treatable diseases.
Writer
Australian stuntman Grant Page travels to Hong Kong to find Bruce Lee's successor and looks at the cultural phenomenon that Asian martial arts has become in the West. He talks to actors such as Angela Mao, Stuart Whitman and George Lazenby - who were all making movies in Hong Kong at the time - and fights Carter Wong twice.
Producer
Australian stuntman Grant Page travels to Hong Kong to find Bruce Lee's successor and looks at the cultural phenomenon that Asian martial arts has become in the West. He talks to actors such as Angela Mao, Stuart Whitman and George Lazenby - who were all making movies in Hong Kong at the time - and fights Carter Wong twice.
Director
Australian stuntman Grant Page travels to Hong Kong to find Bruce Lee's successor and looks at the cultural phenomenon that Asian martial arts has become in the West. He talks to actors such as Angela Mao, Stuart Whitman and George Lazenby - who were all making movies in Hong Kong at the time - and fights Carter Wong twice.
Producer
The Stuntmen is a one-hour documentary for Australian TV written and directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. It was through this movie that Trenchard-Smith met Grant Page, who he put under a five-year contract and featured in a number of movies. The film also acted as a "calling card" which enabled the director to get finance for The Man from Hong Kong (1975).
Writer
The Stuntmen is a one-hour documentary for Australian TV written and directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. It was through this movie that Trenchard-Smith met Grant Page, who he put under a five-year contract and featured in a number of movies. The film also acted as a "calling card" which enabled the director to get finance for The Man from Hong Kong (1975).
Director
Director
The Stuntmen is a one-hour documentary for Australian TV written and directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. It was through this movie that Trenchard-Smith met Grant Page, who he put under a five-year contract and featured in a number of movies. The film also acted as a "calling card" which enabled the director to get finance for The Man from Hong Kong (1975).
