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.

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Other distributors of his work include Bayview Entertainment (USA), High Fliers - Pinewood Studios Group (UK), BrinkVision (USA), MVD Entertainment Group (USA), Wild Eye Releasing (USA), Video Services Corp (Canada), Amazon Prime (USA, UK, Germany, Japan), Worldwide Multimedia (USA), Pop Twist Studios (USA), Guerrilla Films (UK), Lionsgate Studios (USA), SRS Distribution (USA), Sector 5 (USA), Troma Releasing (USA), 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), RTE One (Ireland), RTE Network Two (Ireland) and Channel Four (UK). This work has been placed in territories that include 150 countries worldwide.

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Figgis directed his first feature film independently when he was asked to collaborate with the internationally acclaimed photographer Sir Simon Marsden on a documentary feature project called The Twilight Hour. Oscar nominee John Hurt joined the project as narrator and the IFTA nominated and acclaimed film was almost immediately acquired by the Discovery Network where it was subsequently distributed to 100 countries. It was later released on Amazon Prime and DVD through the MVD Entertainment Group.

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Figgis was then invited by BSkyB to join them as a director. He was almost immediately assigned a feature project - which was destined to appear in one of their Sky One Sunday 9pm primetime slots less than four months later. The film was presented by paranormalist Uri Geller under the title Uri's Haunted Cities: Venice.

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Figgis' second assignment for BSkyB saw him direct the Sky Arts feature documentary A Maverick In London where he collaborated with Alan Rickman, Joanna Lumley and Richard E. Grant, among others, on a film looking at the history of the celebrated King's Head Theatre in Islington. When the film aired in a primetime slot on Sky Arts One, it was named by Toby Young as one of his favourite documentaries of the year. The film was also distributed on DVD through the National Theatre.

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Figgis was then invited to join the Screen Director's Guild of Ireland and through this organisation he was invited onto a BBC Director Training Programme for Drama where he shadowed Game of Thrones director Ciaran Donnelly on the long running favourite, George Gently, which starred Martin Shaw. Figgis commented that he found this particular training invaluable and gave him an unfettered access into every aspect of directing and delivering a major drama.

 

Figgis was then selected for a feature film director training Masterclass with the internationally acclaimed director Mike Leigh, where Figgis learned the finer arts of the feature film medium.

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Figgis was then invited to teach acting for camera techniques at the Irish Film Academy at a time where he also founded Teen Feature Film Project Ireland and Feature Film Project Ireland.

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Figgis has over 40 director credits on projects that have been distributed internationally through television, DVD and Video on Demand.

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Figgis has tutored actors at Phoenix Actors Management, The Actor’s Place, Irish Film Academy, The Mill Theatre, Teen Feature Film Project Ireland and Feature Film Project Ireland.

 

He has supplied forewords for several books including Stuart Willis’ The New Flesh and John West’s Britain’s Haunted Heritage, Britain’s Ghostly Heritage and Britain’s Haunted Land.

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Figgis started his career in TV and film as an animation painter for Murakami-Wolf on the celebrated cult TV series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

 

He went on to work for Steven Spielberg at his London based Amblimation Studios on the feature classic An American Tail 2: Fievel Goes West and for legendary animator Richard Williams at his rooftop studio in Camden, London on the cult classic The Thief and the Cobbler which starred Sean Connery, Vincent Price and Kenneth Williams.