Jason Figgis

About

Jason Figgis is an award-winning IFTA nominated film and TV director commissioned by major broadcasters that include Sky One, Sky Arts and Discovery Channel. Other distributors of his work include: High Fliers Films - Pinewood Studios (UK), Bayview Entertainment (USA), BrinkVision (USA), MVD Entertainment Group (USA), Wild Eye Releasing (USA), Alchemy Werks (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 over 150 countries worldwide. Figgis has tutored actors at Phoenix Actors Management, The Actor’s Place, Irish Film Academy and Mill Theatre and is the founder of Teen Feature Film Project Ireland and Feature Film Project Ireland. He is a features writer for Starburst Magazine and 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. 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.

Experience

• Owner at October Eleven Pictures
  Jan 2000 - Present · 26 yrs 7 mos

  Director/Producer/DoP/Writer/Editor

• Ink and Paint Department at Richard Williams' Animation
  Jan 1991 - Jul 1991 · 7 mos

  Animation company working on feature film production.

• Ink and Paint Department at Amblimation Ltd., Universal Studios
  Jan 1990 - Aug 1990 · 8 mos

  Ink and Paint Dept/Trace/Special Effects

• Ink and Paint Department at Murakami Wolf Animation
  Mar 1989 - Dec 1989 · 10 mos

  Animation company specialising in TV series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.