Jason Figgis

Jason Figgis is an Irish[1] film director.

Early life, family and education

Figgis's parents are Peter and Anne Figgis.[2] Figgis has three brothers: Daniel, a former child actor; Peter jnr, a mind and body fitness expert and Jonathan Figgis, a filmmaker who has been a collaborator and business partner.[2] A cousin, Mike Figgis, is an Academy Award-nominated writer and director of the feature film Leaving Las Vegas.[3]

Jason attended Ballyfermot College in Dublin, but he did not graduate due to his career pursuits in animation when he was hired by Murakami-Wolf to work on the cult animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.[2]

Career

Before Jason got into directing he was an animator and worked on many different animated films, including An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and The Thief and the Cobbler. For a time, he worked at Steven Spielberg's Amblimation.[2]

Jason has also toured around acting in a variety of theatre companies including the Shakespeare Company.

In 1999, Jonathan and Jason embarked on their collaborative filmmaking careers working on their first short film, "Pallida Mors".

The brothers' Dublin-based company, October Eleven Pictures,[4] was formed in the early 2000s.[2][5] Jason worked on a variety of programmes for Discovery Channel, Sky One, RTÉ (Ireland) and SVT (Sweden), among others. These shows include the feature-length documentary The Twilight Hour, Uri's Haunted Cities: Venice with paranormalist Uri Geller, and the co-production A Maverick In London featuring Joanna Lumley, Steven Berkoff, Richard E. Grant, and Alan Rickman. There has been much success on the festival circuit with official selections at many international festivals, an IFTA Award nomination in 2003 and won Best Feature Film for A Curious Incident In The Life of Uri Geller in 2006.

October Eleven Picture's first feature film 3Crosses (released in the US as Once Upon a Time in Dublin)[3] was completed for Spring 2010 whilst they were preparing for post-production on two feature films (shot Autumn 2007), Handheld and Blood. Blood premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2011.

He is to be the director of the upcoming thriller film Cold Sun, written by screenwriter Simon W. Golding - due for release in 2021.

Notes
  1. "The Mumbas Join 3CROSSES". ShowBiz Ireland. July 6, 2005. Retrieved February 11, 2016.
  2. "TAEM interview with Producer/Writer/Director Jason Figgis". EerieDigest.com. November 1, 2011. Retrieved February 11, 2016.
  3. Brosnan, Seán (October 21, 2014). "Interview with Jason Figgis – Director of Irish Horror 'The Ecstasy of Isabel Mann'". IFTN.ie. Irish Film and Television Network. Retrieved February 11, 2016.
  4. "Busy Time For October Eleven's Figgis Brothers". IFTN.ie. Irish Film and Television Network. August 18, 2004. Retrieved February 11, 2016.
  5. Newton, Aisling (May 16, 2014). "October Eleven Pictures Wraps Irish Feature 'Family'". IFTN.ie. Irish Film and Television Network. Retrieved February 11, 2016.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.