FILM DIRECTOR & PRODUCER

April is a Creative Executive Producer and Director for Blue River Productions based in Los Angeles specialising in biopics and groundbreaking factual drama documentaries, epic cinematography, action-driven drama with high-end documentary and A list talent.

Projects in production:

FEATURE FILMS

The Trade

Genre: Action/Drama/History

Tagline: More Than Gold Was Bought and Sold

Concept: Combining classic elements of the Western genre mixed with the true story of the Chinese sex trade that destroyed the lives of thousands of young girls in San Francisco during the Gold Rush.

Logline: Based on a true story, Donna Cameron is a missionary during the Gold Rush who saves 3,000 young Chinese girls from a life of sexual slavery. The girls are in bondage to a beautiful, yet ruthless Chinese madam named Ah Toy.

Budget: $45m

Producer: April Chandler
Director: Pauline Chan
Written by: David Zanardi and Shaun Monson
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
1st AD: Jamie Marshall
Costume Designer: Marilyn Vance
Production Designer: Scott Campbell
Line Producer: Diane Cornell
Casting Director: Emily Schweber

Shooting Dates: March 28, 2020 to May 30, 2020

Forgotten

Forgotten is a documentary film sharing the lives of fifteen children growing up without their parents in three big cities in the USA: New York, Los Angeles and Denver who are living in foster care, children’s homes, orphanages, juvenile detention or homeless on the streets at risk of grooming, human trafficking, drug abuse, gang violence, prostitution. More than one million children disappear each year and many more thousands are rotting away in the State system. This is their story.

Smile Jamaica

Inspired by a true story of abuse and gang rape in Jamaica.

The Social Experiment

“Who am I?” is probably the most asked question when people are alone, unsure about themselves and need answers and direction with their lives, followed by “What can I do to feel better?” “How can I look younger for longer naturally?” “What can I do to improve my energy?” “How can I love more, forgive easier?” “What can I do to extend my life?” The Fountain of Youth “A social experiment” will show you how to live longer in your life time. The participants work with experts in real time, from water to forgiveness, plant based nutrition to contribution. Full laboratory screening before, during and after will reflect true quantitative results from the participants – the scene is set, but results will be completely impartial.

The participants will learn and apply a combination of topics to enrich their lives such as kindness, gratitude, forgiveness, compassion, meditation, mindfulness, positivity, fitness, health, food, energy, wonder, passion, spellbinding magic, love, contribution to humanity, our external and internal environment, using both Eastern and Western practices. It’s not just one topic, i.e. diet that extends life, but a combination of many.

We have become a culture of healing and cure, rather than using preventative strategies to avoid sickness, poor health, stress, depression in the first instance, and when unpleasant situations do arise, we don’t have the tools to deal with the issues because we’ve never learned them. We rely on doctors for pills and are conditioned to believe it’s the ‘norm’ that the majority of the population are sick and believe those who live until 70’s, 80’s are lucky and it can’t be any different, when it can be.

The heart of this story is finding out if making changes to the participants lives over 12 weeks will change their biological disposition and improve their health outcomes, i.e. remove cancer, diabetes, suicidal tendencies and take them out of survival mode to thriving full of hope, and therefore extending their lives.

Utopia 

A psychological thriller and horror film beyond your worst nightmares.

TELEVISION

O V E R H A U L
“A DOCUMENTARY JOURNALISM ANTHOLOGY SERIES”

Overhaul is a documentary-journalism anthology series about agriculture and climate. Named after the personal metamorphosis of its real-life characters, the series captures these transformations on screen. It begins with three primary characters working in the animal agricultural industry. Initially they don’t know each other, but eventually their lives intersect. At first we witness the impact of agriculture on a personal level (farmers, meatpackers, truck drivers); then we witness it on a global level.

Wonder Hunters 

April just finished filming WonderHunters series one to show the best in humanity filmed against the backdrop of amazing natural wonders. Whilst on the journey across five continents, April met a wide and wonderful variety of inspiring human beings who she interviewed to share their messages with the world. She also took part in awesome cultural traditions, amazing challenges and activities, sensations and tastes, experiencing all this wonderful world has to offer. April challenged herself to go somewhere new, meet someone new and try something new every single day.

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