Jason Figgis

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Managing Director of award-winning film production company October Eleven Pictures, Jason Figgis has a background in the entertainment industry having worked creatively on two series of Murakami Wolf’s hugely successful animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He went on to work for Steven Spielberg on Amblimation's An American Tail: Fievel Goes West creating special effects for key scenes in the movie. He has also worked on the animated short Mutt directed by Damian O'Connor, which won Best Animated Film at the Manchester Film Festival in 1996.

Jason has also been a member of the Illyria Theatre Company which toured with a production of All the World’s a Stage, an incorporation of popular scenes from Shakespeare's famous plays and also played the part of Valmont in a well received theatre production of Choderlos De Laclos' - Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

In 1999, Jason and his younger brother Jonathan embarked on their collaborative filmmaking careers working on their first short film, Pallida Mors. But it was the advent of digital technology combined with their childhood dreams of making movies that lead them to set up the company, October Eleven Pictures in February 2001. Jason directs while his younger brother Jonathan produces.

Jason has been busy over the past couple of years working as director, director of photography and writer on a variety of programmes for The Discovery Channel, Sky One, RTE (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, Alan Rickman and many more. There has been much success on the festival circuit with official selections at many international festivals, an Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) award nomination in 2003 and won Best Feature Film for 'A Curious Incident In The Life of Uri Geller' in 2006.

At present, Jason is devoting his time to getting October Eleven Picture's first feature film 3Crosses completed for Summer 2008 whilst preparing for post-production on two feature films (shot Autumn 2007) entitled 'Blood' and 'Handheld'.

[edit] Links

• October Eleven Pictures entry on IFTN
• The Mumbas Join 3CROSSES, ShowBiz Ireland, article about 3CROSSES, film directed by Jason Figgis
• The Twilight Hour, review of documentary film Twilight Hour - Visions Of Ireland's Haunted Past directed by Jason Figgis on Pop Twist entertainment
• The Twilight Hour - Visions Of Ireland's Haunted Past review and article on Cork Film Festival