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John Deery

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John Deery

John Deery is an award-winning film and television drama director. Like many other directors, he started out as an actor. In between acting jobs he was a runner on commercials with some of the UK’s top commercial directors. He then became a third and first assistant director before going to the National Film & Television School’s Short Course Unit for Directors in 1996.

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John's first feature film, Conspiracy of Silence, which he wrote and directed, won a U.S. National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Freedom of Expression Award. The award was shared with Michael Moore for Fahrenheit 9/11 and Mel Gibson for The Passion of the Christ. John was also nominated for Best Film Director for Conspiracy of Silence at the Irish Film Awards. The screenplay was developed at the Sundance Screenwriters’ Lab after it won the Hartley-Merrill International Screenwriting Award presented to him at the Cannes Film Festival. Conspiracy of Silence was screened in Competition at festivals all over the world including: Italy, France (Nominated for Golden Hitchcock Award), Germany, Poland (Special Jury Mention at Warsaw), Russia, Canada, the U.S. (Official Selection in Competition at the American Film Institute Festival (AFI) in Los Angeles) and Ireland, all to critical acclaim.

John has also directed several big dramas for British television including: If I Had You, a 2-hour single film, starring Sarah Parish and Paul McGann which was screened on BBC America, also receiving good notices; 2 x 90min ‘specials’ of Kay Mellor’s Fat Friends starring Alison Steadman, Ruth Jones and James Corden; 1 x 90min of The Brief starring Alan Davies.

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