{"id":1100,"date":"2017-02-14T16:20:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T16:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.duck66.com\/OnceBitten\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2018-03-17T00:27:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T00:27:22","slug":"meet-the-crew-director-pete-tomkies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck66.com\/OnceBitten\/2017\/02\/14\/meet-the-crew-director-pete-tomkies\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the crew: director Pete Tomkies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once Bitten&#8230; will be directed by Pete Tomkies.<\/p>\n<p>Pete&#8217;s previous horror short TEAM achieved 23 official selections and 2 semi-finalist awards around the world including festivals in the USA, Canada, Brazil, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Scotland and England.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Tomkies began making films on 8mm when he was 10 years old and has been shooting film, video and still photographs ever since. Pete has worked as director of photography and camera operator on both fiction, non-fiction films and live music performances for Leaky Shed Films, Sic Infit Productions, Yellow Raincoat Productions, Willow Tale Films, Courtyard Creations and Matter Of Sound. Pete has made lyric videos for the bands Sonic Boom Six and Bleach Blood.<\/p>\n<p>With John Katsoulieri, Pete co-directed the avant-garde music film Aelia Laelia for Christopher John Chaplin and Fabrique Records.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duck66.com\/TEAM\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TEAM website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once Bitten&#8230; will be directed by Pete Tomkies. 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