Gary McKendry

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Gary McKendry is a Northern Irish film and television commercial director. His short film Everything in This Country Must was nominated for an Academy Award in 2005. McKendry was born and raised in Ballyclare, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. He attended the Belfast College of Art for a year before enrolling at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. Graduating with a degree in art and film, McKendry worked as a storyboard artist in London, before moving to Australia where he worked as an advertising art director. He was offered a job with the American ad agency Chiat/Day and moved to New York City, where he later worked for Ogilvy & Mather and Margeotes Fertitta.  Eventually McKendry branched out on his own, founding the company Go Film and directing award-winning commercials for clients such as IKEA.,  Porsche, Heineken, NASDAQ, Budweiser and DeBeers.  He was interviewed by BBC Radio Ulster after witnessing the September 11 attacks in 2001.  McKendry decided to direct Everything in This Country Must after reading the novella by Colum McCann. He spent much of 2003 shooting the film on location in Northern Ireland. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in the 77th Academy Awards, which was won by Andrea Arnold's film Wasp. He is currently directing The Killer Elite, an action thriller based on Sir Ranulph Fiennes' fiction novel The Feather Men, which is filming in Australia and stars Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gary McKendry , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Películas

Asesinos de élite
Screenplay
Tres antiguos miembros de las fuerzas especiales son contratados por un jeque árabe para matar a tres miembros del SAS (Servicio Especial Aéreo británico), culpables de la muerte de tres de sus hijos durante unos disturbios en Omán diez años antes. Dos de ellos aceptan por dinero, mientras que el tercero (Jason Statham) lo hace para salvar la vida de un amigo. Pero llevar a cabo tan peligrosa misión no será nada fácil, pues, aunque son profesionales, están bajo el control de una organización formada por antiguos miembros del SAS, denominada The Feather Men.
Asesinos de élite
Director
Tres antiguos miembros de las fuerzas especiales son contratados por un jeque árabe para matar a tres miembros del SAS (Servicio Especial Aéreo británico), culpables de la muerte de tres de sus hijos durante unos disturbios en Omán diez años antes. Dos de ellos aceptan por dinero, mientras que el tercero (Jason Statham) lo hace para salvar la vida de un amigo. Pero llevar a cabo tan peligrosa misión no será nada fácil, pues, aunque son profesionales, están bajo el control de una organización formada por antiguos miembros del SAS, denominada The Feather Men.
Everything in This Country Must
Director
Northern Ireland. Soldiers, through inattention, run into a car with a woman and her young son. Two years later, a horse is stuck in the river, and the soldiers happen along, but the horse's owner is violently opposed to their help; he relents, but his hostility is obvious when his daughter invites them inside afterward to warm up.
As If There Were Trees
Screenplay
A Belfast housing project simmers with resentment at an influx of Polish immigrants. But Iris is too busy for "them and us." She pulls pints and struggles to raise her nephew's baby. Jamie has turned to drugs and lost his job after his ex Anna went back to Poland. Now Anna wants her baby back. Jamie vents his rage on the Poles he once worked with, and Iris must choose a side as her family is ripped apart.
As If There Were Trees
Director
A Belfast housing project simmers with resentment at an influx of Polish immigrants. But Iris is too busy for "them and us." She pulls pints and struggles to raise her nephew's baby. Jamie has turned to drugs and lost his job after his ex Anna went back to Poland. Now Anna wants her baby back. Jamie vents his rage on the Poles he once worked with, and Iris must choose a side as her family is ripped apart.