Carl Hunter
Carl James Hunter (born 14 April 1965 in Liverpool, England) is an English film director, screenwriter and the bassist for the Liverpool pop group The Farm. He joined The Farm in 1983 and helped design their CD jackets.
The Farm’s 1991 album Spartacus reached number 1 in the UK. The band’s singles Groovy Train and All Together Now made the UK Top 10, with the 2004 remix of All Together Now also charting.
After earning a Master’s in Multi Media Design and Production in 1995, Hunter began making short films in the late 1990s, including Blood Sports for All: The Punk Kes and Birthday Boy. In the early 2000s he started working closely with writer Frank Cottrell Boyce.
In 2007 they released Grow Your Own, a British comedy set on a Merseyside allotment, with Hunter as producer and co-writer. He has continued to direct short films and work on television and festival projects. In 2009 he adapted Boyce’s Accelerate into a short online film.
In 2011 he did photographic illustration for Boyce’s book The Unforgotten Coat, which won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 2012 and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 2012. He directed Sometimes Always Never, a feature written by Boyce, produced in Northwest England; Bill Nighy joined the cast in 2016 and the film was released in 2018.
Hunter teaches film production at Edge Hill University in Ormskirk and runs The Label Recordings, an independent label at the university, featuring artists such as AliHorn, Hooton Tennis Club, Youth Hostel and The Pre-Amps.
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