Pete Tomkies

Duck66 Films
Camera Operator, Cinematographer, Director, Director of Photography, Filmmaker, Videographer, Producer and Production Designer

Manchester, United Kingdom

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About Pete

Pete Tomkies is a freelance cinematographer, camera operator, director and editor from Manchester, UK. He also produces and directs short films as Duck66 Films. Pete is a freelance contributor to Videomaker magazine.

Pete has shot and edited work for corporate / charity clients including Arrow Films, The Stroke Association, Girls Out Loud, Speakeasy and the Sonder music festival. Pete was the director of photography on Rick's Plaice, the web TV series from world renowned keyboard player Rick Wakeman.

Pete has worked has worked as a DP / camera operator on both fiction and non-fiction films for Leaky Shed Films, Sic Infit Productions, Yellow Raincoat Productions, Willow Tale Films and Courtyard Creations. He has also made music videos for the bands Sonic Boom Six, Bleach Blood and Ideal Forgery and shot live performance videos for The Tuts, Canter Semper and Polly Virr. With the late John Katsoulieri, Pete conceived and co-directed the video Aelia Laelia for the British avant-garde composer and experimental artist Christopher James Chaplin.

Pete directed horror comedy short Once Bitten... written by Kevin T Rogers and starring Lauren Ashley Carter. Once Bitten... won 15 awards and was selected for 105 film festivals around the world, including being selected as a finalist at the BAFTA Cymru qualifying Carmarthen Bay Film Festival. Following its successful festival run, Once Bitten…was released on Grimmfest TV and also on Troma Now, the online subscription channel from Lloyd Kaufman’s Troma Entertainment. Pete's previous short horror film, TEAM, was an official selection at 25 film festivals.

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The Night We Met (2018)
Film Cinematographer
Once Bitten... (2018)
Film Director
The Last of Me (2017)
Film Camera and Electrical Department
Aelia Laelia (2017)
Film Writer
Stretchy (2016)
Film (short) by Rob Maxwell (Action, Comedy and Drama) Cinematographer Hannah Martin is your everyday girl. She has a normal job (checkout girl), a lovely boyfriend (Rocky) and a cool best friend (Laura). After Rocky is attacked one night by a gang that is terrorizing Manchester, she decides she's had enough and transforms herself into STRETCHY. With the help of her loyal best friend (Laura/Puma) and boyfriend (Rocky/The Jewel) and friends (Earth Girl & Machine Girl), Stretchy vows to put a stop to the gang and their leader SHADOW. Written by Sic Infit Productions
We Never Lose Our Loved Ones (2015)
Film (short) by Rob Maxwell (Drama and Horror) Cinematographer Newlyweds Jacob and Sammie are head over heels in love. Their lives are changed forever after a brutal gang attack in which Sammie is raped. But the gang discover justice can come calling even from the grave. Written by Sic Infit Productions
I'm with You (2015)
Film (short) by Rob Maxwell (Drama) Cinematographer When Emily Green was 5 her father passed away. What she didn't know was that her father had left her DVD's for her to be shown as she reached key moments in her life. In I'm With You we join Emily as she reaches her 18th birthday and receives the first of the DVD's from her father. He gives fatherly advice whilst making Emily laugh and cry. We follow Emily as she goes through good and bad times in her young life with the words from her father stuck in her head. "I'm With You Written by Sic Infit Productions
In Conversation with RM Hubbert (2015)
Film (short) by Ryan Hughes (Documentary) Camera and Electrical Department A documentary following the creative processes of Scottish musician RM Hubbert, featuring interviews and live sessions.
In Conversation with Nancy Elizabeth (2015)
Film (short) by Ryan Hughes (Documentary) Camera and Electrical Department A short documentary tracking the life and creative process of Manchester based folk singer-songwriter Nancy Elizabeth.
And She Cried (2014)
Film by John Farrington (Drama) Camera and Electrical Department Produced by Leaky Shed Films And She Cried explores the complexities of the lives of two teenage girls - Sara & Laura. Sara is a Goth teenager whose humble upbringing and passion for photography is overshadowed by the recent and painful loss of her mother and the uneasy relationship with her father. Laura lives as a popular and trendy teenager whose edgy relationship with her parents has led her develop disturbing and dark thoughts. Unknowingly intertwined in the lives of these two dissimilar girls sits Kate - a young woman attached to both but struggling to find her own identity. What is often seen as black and white is shown to cover the whole spectrum of grey, and this leads the young girls to an explosive denouement. Written by John Farrington

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Awards

[Director] "Once Bitten...", Best Horror Film, Oxford International Short Film Festival, UK
(2019)
[Director] "Once Bitten...", Best Short Film, La Mano Film Festival, Madrid, Spain
(2018)