Chris Quick

Education

Equipment

My Equipment/Kit: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere CC, Canon Cameras, Final Cut 7 (V7.0.3), Sony AX100 4K Camera

I can use: Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Pro / X, DaVinci Resolve, Microsoft Office Suite, Canon Cameras, Sony Cameras, Mac Computer

About me

From IMDB

A keen enthusiast in Drama at School, Chris Quick originally planned to study Economics at University but changed his mind whilst backpacking round Europe in June 2006. Upon his return he retrained as a video editor and together with his class mate Mark Ferguson formed the television production company Quick Off The Mark Productions in October 2009.

The pair provided video production services across Glasgow and even provided coverage of the Katana Fighting Series held in various hotels across the city between 2010 and 2013. In the summer of 2010, Quick and Ferguson teamed up with their former class mate Andy McEwan to write their first feature film called In Search of La Che. The film premiered at the Glasgow Film Theatre and went on to feature at the American Online Film Awards. In response to the difficulty finding cast and crew during the production, Quick founded the online film database, the Glasgow Filmmakers Alliance with actor Andrew O'Donnell as a way of bringing together film professionals working in the city. In 2012 he became a member of BAFTA Scotland and led a campaign to get the organisations New Talent Awards recognised by IMDB stating that they highlighted the best upcoming film talent in Scotland. The campaign was successful and the awards were added to the database. In 2014, he triumphed again when he called for the Virgin Media Shorts Awards to be recognised after the notable double win by Scottish director John McPhail. Later that year, he reunited with McEwan to write the short puppet comedy The Greyness of Autumn in which Quick would make his directorial debut and later voice the character of Nelson. The film enjoyed a variety of success over three years on the international film festival circuit playing in multiple events in America and Ireland before ending in 2015 at the People of Passion Film Festival in Australia where it won the Best Short Comedy accolade.

In 2013, Quick began working on a variety of editing roles on projects outside of Quick Off The Mark Productions. He worked under the banner Mr Q Media and his first project was Sectarian Secret Police directed by Joseph Andrew Mclean. In 2014, he returned to the directors chair briefly to direct the short children's film Minion vs. Minion which was produced with Steve Johnson as part of a collaboration project between Quick Off The Mark Productions, Futuristfilm and Vue Cinemas.

In 2015, it was announced that Quick Off The Mark Productions would in the following year upon Fergusons decision to move to Canada. Quick turned to freelancing full time and rebranded his company as Suited Caribou Media providing post production and behind the scenes photography services across Glasgow. His most notable project to date since leaving Quick Off The Mark Productions is the short sci-fi film Electric Faces by Johnny Herbin. With the exclusion of his own films, Quick claims it is the best production he has ever worked on. The film went on to earn Herbin a nomination for the Best Writer accolade at the 2016 BAFTA New Talent Awards.

With Quick Off The Mark Productions disbanding, it was announced in 2016 that Suited Caribou Media and Pentagram Productions UK would take over filming responsibilities of Autumn Never Dies, the planned sequel to The Greyness of Autumn. Quick is set to return as director of the film and will also respire his role as Nelson.
Referees:
Duncan Airlie James
Global Kombat Entertainment Ltd
removed

Steve Johnson
Futurist Digital Ltd
removed

License & Passport

Skills

Secondary Job Title	Producer
Job Titles	Video Editor, Writer, Producer, Post Production Assistant
Years in industry	6+ years
Organisations / Memberships	BAFTA (UK), GBFTE (UK)