The film was made by Leamington-based Entanglement Productions and won third place in the Best Film Category at the recent Institute of Videography awards, held at Coventry’s Ricoh Arena. It was then screened at the first Falstaff International Film Festival in Stratford-on-Avon.

Triple Hit’s writer and director Huw Bowen (pictured right) said: “The film festival was a lot of fun, and we won another award - Special Mention for Best Visual Effects, which was personally very gratifying as I did most of the VFX myself.”

He explained that he had worked on Triple Hit “full time - well, more than full time, actually - for two years…It nearly bloody killed me!”

Born and raised in Warwickshire, Huw moved to Denver and graduated with a BFA Multimedia degree, including video, audio and computer graphics, at the University of Colorado. In 2003 he took the Los Angeles Film School’s one-year intensive filmmaking course - where he was trained by such industry names as Danforth Green, the editor of MASH and Blazing Saddles, and Laurence Rosenthal, the script development executive for Scream.

He moved back to the UK in 2006 and founded Entanglement Productions with long-time collaborator Chris Pinches. In 2008, he began work on Triple Hit as his first feature.

The movie’s exploration of parallel worlds allowed Huw to really develop his technical and storytelling skills and the effects were widely praised, leading to the film being officially selected for screening at the world-famous San Diego Comic-Con.

The project was previously called Schrodinger’s Girl after the Schrodinger’s catexperiment in physics that is often used to indicate the possible existence of parallel worlds. It centres on Rebecca Hunter, a disgraced scientist conducting research into alternative universes.

She discovers a way to travel between realities and then finds her counterparts have their own agendas: Anastasia Hunter is the science director for a gulag in the People’s Republic of Great Britain, while Sarah Hunter-Gibson is a professor in a utopian hi-tech society.

Rebecca accidentally ends up in the People’s Republic, a dystopian alternative Britain, where her encounter with a totalitarian regime is only the beginning of her problems as the multiverse begins to unravel around her.

The film, made for under £100,000, stars Abigail Tarttelin (as Rebecca/Anastasia/Sarah) alongside Damian Hayes, Al Convy, Roger Harding, Tony Holmes, Stephen Steinhaus and Amelia Tyler. Chris Pinches was the cinematographer.

The film’s strength is its story concept (nicely incorporating real-world quantum mechanics to give it grounding) and in the visuals used to bring it to life. Memorable images include dramatic scenes where the parallel worlds begin to overlap and collide and a shot of three different versions of Earth.

It leaves the viewer with thoughts about how our past, present and future might easily have gone in other directions, how they can diverge (and also converge) through human choices, and how many other dimensions or realities might exist out there.

Huw said his influences for the film included “Stanley Kubrick films, novels by Greg Egan, Charles Stross and William Gibson, and probably a healthy helping of Doctor Who.”

And his favourite films include Blade Runner, Moon, The American Astronaut, Star Wars (”of course, duh!”), The Matrix (”The first one only - the others do not exist to me!”), Fight Club and Nightwatch.

Since completing Triple Hit, Huw has been looking for new challenges. He is developing a new feature and a slate of short films and music videos with the intention of improving his filmmaking skills and raising his profile.

So what’s Huw working on right now? He revealed: “Well, it’s all a bit contingent on the funding situation, but I have a sort of action/horror/dramedy feature script called Ministry of Secrets. It’s a fairly insane script and a fair bit more expensive than Triple Hit so raising finance may take some time.”

Huw has already made several short films exploring the Ministry of Secrets concept, and they can be found on YouTube. Here’s one of the videos:
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He added: “I’m also currently working on a music video for a band called The Unknownn which is looking really cool at the moment. And I’m also developing some short films to keep myself busy. I’ve got one about a haunted house and a 70’s exploitation-style one about superheroes. In addition to all that, I am working with Chris Pinches, producer and DoP of Triple Hit, on a couple of features that he will be directing (and I’ll be wearing the producer’s hat on).”

Huw has previously worked on several music videos, either as director or visual effects supervisor. He has a big passion for music and as well as having an album released on Terraform Records under the name Sundog, he also plays the guitar, mandolin and ukelele.

For more on Triple Hit, visit the official website. There is also a website for its earlier incarnation as Schrodinger’s Girl.

Thanks to David for a great review. Read the opriginal article at http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/2010/01/triple-hit-opens-a-refreshingl.html

For more info on Triple Hit or any of Abby’s films, please contact abigail@abigailtarttelin.com

For information on Abigail’s writing including two upcoming novels  please contact Jo Unwin at jo@convilleandwalsh.com