John Hand

Movies

Royal Rendezvous
Production Design
A Chef from East L.A. received an invitation to a manor in Ireland to cook for a royal banquet that was planned by a Lord to convince his grandmother to sell their home.
My Sailor, My Love
Production Design
A retired sea captain and his daughter must reassess their strained relationship after he begins a new romance with a widowed housekeeper.
Elizabeth Is Missing
Production Design
Maud's best friend Elizabeth has disappeared, but as she tries to solve the mystery, dementia threatens to erase all the clues, giving the search a poignant urgency.
Pilgrimage
Art Direction
In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fraught with peril.
Maudie
Production Design
Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.
My Name Is Emily
Production Design
Packed off to a foster home after her father is insti­tu­tion­al­ized, a rebellious young Irish girl resolves to bust her dad out of the hospital where he's been confined.
Cherry Tree
Production Design
Faith’s world is turned upside down after she finds out that her beloved father is dying. When the mysteriously alluring Sissy Young becomes her field hockey coach, Faith finds a compassionate spirit and much-needed mother figure. Little does she know that Sissy is the head of a centuries-old witches’ coven that uses the fruit of an ancient cherry tree in a secret ritual that restores life to the dead and dying. Offering to cure her father in exchange for a child, Sissy strikes a bargain with Faith, who suddenly finds herself pregnant with a baby that’s growing at an alarming rate. But with the clock to the child’s birth ticking down and the true intention of Sissy’s plans for humanity becoming more apparent, Faith and her father must stand together in order to save both their lives.
Stay
Production Design
A woman finds out she's pregnant and returns home when the expected father wants nothing to do with her.
Ek Tha Tiger
Production Design
An Indian agent is sent to observe the actions of a scientist but the mission becomes complicated when he falls in love with the scientist's Pakistani caretaker.
Wake Wood
Production Design
The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
Wake Wood
Arthur's Helper 1
The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
Damage
Production Design
Set in affluent, contemporary, south-side Dublin, the Cahills appear to have the world at their feet. Dad Aidan, is a successful property tycoon, his wife Michelle, a successful estate agent and their fashion model daughter, Emma's 21st birthday party at the family home should be a night to remember. That night however, a rape at the party shatters their seemingly perfect lives. With the key suspect released on bail, and dark family secrets coming to the fore, Emma's life begins to free-fall. Slowly, having made radical changes to her life, Emma builds towards recovery - until a chance meeting with her rapist bolsters her conviction that she'll need to confront him in court before she can get on with her life.
True North
Production Design
The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters of the North Sea.
Watermelon
Production Design
A tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.
D'Unbelievables D'Mother
Art Direction
Irish Comedy starring Jon Kenny & Pat Shortt
Memsahib Rita
Art Designer
Using a blend of magic realism and realist drama, Memsahib Rita looks at the physical and emotional violence of racism. Shanti is haunted by both the racist taunts of nationalist white youths and the memory of her white mother.