Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Hunt for Gollum was made for £3,000, a budget achieved through crowd-sourced visual effects. Bouchard produced and directed the film as an independent Lord of the Rings fan film released in May 2009.
As of May 2024, The Hunt for Gollum had been watched by 13 million people. In its first week of release in May 2009, the film ranked fourth on the US most-watched chart.
The Hunt for Gollum won Best Fiction Produced for the Web at the 2009 Cinéma Tous Ecrans festival.
Chris Bouchard directed Hackney's Finest in 2014, a feature-length crime drama produced by the London studio Framestore. In 2018, he co-directed The Little Mermaid for Netflix.
The Little Mermaid, co-directed by Chris Bouchard and released on Netflix in 2018, starred Shirley MacLaine, Poppy Drayton, William Moseley, and Loreto Peralta.
In its first week of release in May 2009, The Hunt for Gollum ranked fourth on the US most-watched chart. The films above it were X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Star Trek, and a romantic comedy starring Matthew McConaughey.