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above: Jack Burton, Rob Goldie, (Kneeling) Alice Hopkins, Actor Ed Stoppard playing Alan


Turing (Seated), (standing behind chair) Steve Murphy (standing with red sweater) Clare Beavan (Director), Executive Producer and Creator Patrick Sammon (standing blue shirt)


right: Patrick Sammon It was after his decision to try filmmaking full-time


that Sammon discovered Turing, while researching ideas for possible future movies. “At the time, I stuck it in my file folder,” recalls Sammon, who is now 38 years old. “I came across it again in 2009; It was that September when I said, ‘I’m going to get this made’ and started to get the production team together.” Codebreaker is excellent and engrossing due in large part to the work of director Clare Beavan, editor Leigh Brzeski and actor Ed Stoppard (The Pianist) who plays


scheduled. “We’ve played in nine cities so far,” Sammon re-


ported. “This builds on the Video on Demand (VOD) model, but it is great to see this film on the big screen and with other people.” TOD has a relationship with AMC theaters and, according to Sammon, “they really market films well to the LGBT community.” Codebreaker has also been screened several times to date as a fundraiser for local LGBT community centers in different parts of the country.


“I was really for myself, INSPIRED by this outsider’s personality, and I hope it helps people to BETTER APPRECIATE our differences whatever they may be: gender, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, race, etc.”


Turing in several dramatic vignettes throughout the course of the film. Sammon partnered with Channel 4 in the U.K. to


produce an initial, British version ofCodebreaker that was broadcast there in 2011. He and his team have since re-edited the film to make a uniquely Ameri- can cut. This is the version currently being shown throughout the U.S. in theaters via a new approach to exhibition entitled Theatrical on Demand, or TOD for short. When Codebreaker gets enough demand from a particular city or region through the website todpics.com, a screening or longer run of the film is


30 RAGE monthly | MARCH 2013 “It’s been seen by more than two million people


around the world at this point,” Sammon says of his film, the first he has ever produced. “People’s first response (to Turing’s story) is usually outrage, but they then feel inspired by it; He was someone who thought outside the box and was a really creative, unusual man.” More personally, Sammon shared about what he


has learned as a gay man from Turing and what he hopes audiences will take from his film. “I was really inspired for myself, by this outsider’s personality and I hope it helps people to better appreciate our differ-


ences whatever they may be: gender, sexual orienta- tion, race, etc.” The producer and his team were most intent on


“doing Turing justice” with Codebreaker. I asked Sam- mon whether he had heard about the announced biopic in which Cumberbatch will star. He had and stated: “It’s going to be good, it’s all good; the more people that know about Turing, the better.” It is enormously inspiring to realize that the digital


age in which we now live was ushered in by an openly gay man who also played a critical role in vanquish- ing Hitler and the Nazis, thereby ensuring greater freedom for those persecuted by them including LGBT people. Despite his achievements, Turing suf- fered greatly and unnecessarily during his life. We all owe him a tremendous debt.


For more information aboutCodebreaker, visit turingfilm.com.


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