Bio

 

Jason Figgis is an award-winning IFTA nominated film and TV director who has had feature

work commissioned by major broadcasters that include Sky One, Sky Arts and Discovery

Channel.

 

Other distributors of his work include MVD Entertainment Group (USA), Video Services Corp

(Canada), Guerrilla Films (UK), Lionsgate Studios (USA), SRS Distribution (UK), Spentzos

Films (Greece), KSM (Germany), Double 4 Studios (Slovenia), SVT (Sweden), Von Lederer

(Hungary), Google Play (USA), Amazon Instant (USA), Vimeo On Demand (USA), Hulu

(USA) and RTE - Network Two (Ireland). This work has been placed in territories that

include over 150 countries worldwide.

 

Nominations include: Starburst Fantasy Awards UK 2016 (Don’t You Recognise Me? - Best

Film and Best Performance - the film went on to win the Best Performance award), Best

Independent Feature Film, Best Independent Screenplay and Best Actor (BloodGuts Film

Awards 2014 - UK - The Ecstasy of Isabel Mann), Best Independent Feature Film and Best

Director (BloodGuts Film Awards 2012 - UK - Children of a Darker Dawn) and Top 20 Best

Horror Films of 2012 (The Conduit Speaks - USA - Children of a Darker Dawn). Figgis also

won Best Feature Film at the Navan Film Festival - Ireland in 2006 for A Curious Incident in

the Life of Uri Geller. Figgis’ feature film Once Upon a Time in Dublin / 3Crosses made

distributor MVD's Best Seller list upon release in 2014. The film was also nominated in the

category of Best Feature Film at Ireland's Underground Cinema Film Festival. His feature

film Children of a Darker Dawn also made Amazon's Recommended Films list in the

category of Horror Movies and TV Shows in 2014. His feature double bill, Cathnafola / Leap

Into Darkness was rated 9.6/10 on Amazon.com from Customer Reviews, also in 2014. His

feature film A Christmas Carol was ranked in the Top 50 within the DVD horror category on

Amazon.com for 2014 and his feature documentary The Twilight Hour (Discovery Channel)

was nominated for two Irish Film and Television Awards in 2003 and played on Discovery

Civilisations for three years.

 

Titles of feature work that Figgis has written and directed include: The Paper Child (2016),

12 Slays of Christmas - “The Uncommon Mr. Goode” (2016), Grindsploitation - “The

Wandering” (2016) - distributors SRS Distribution (UK), Don't You Recognise Me? (2016),

Urban Traffik (2016), The Ecstasy of Isabel Mann (2015) - distributors MVD Entertainment

Group (USA), Video Services Corp (Canada), Children of a Darker Dawn (2013) -

distributors MVD (USA), Video Services Corp (Canada), Amazon Instant (USA), Vimeo On

Demand (USA), Cathnafola (2013) - distributors MVD (USA), Video Services Corp

(Canada), Google Play (USA), Hulu (USA), Amazon Instant (USA), Vimeo On Demand

(USA), A Christmas Carol (2012) - distributors MVD (USA), Video Services Corp (Canada),

Guerrilla Films (UK), Google Play (USA), Hulu (USA), Amazon Instant (USA), Vimeo On

Demand (USA), Once Upon a Time in Dublin / 3Crosses (2010) - distributors MVD (USA),

Video Services Corp (Canada), Amazon Instant (USA), Vimeo On Demand (USA), Dublin:

The Movie - “Jo Jo” (2008) - distributor Darklight (IRL), A Curious Incident in the Life of Uri

Geller (2006) - distributors KSM (Germany) and Spentzos Films (Greece), Uri's Haunted

Cities: Venice (2005) - distributors Sky One (UK), KSM (Germany) and Lionsgate Studios

(USA), A Maverick In London (2005) - distributors The National Theatre (UK) and Sky Arts

(UK), The Twilight Hour (2003) - distributor Discovery Channel (INT) and MVD

Entertainment Group (USA).

 

Jason is currently in post production of The Paper Child (2016).