Gary McKendry
Gary McKendry (born 20th century in Ballyclare , County Antrim , Northern Ireland ) is a British film director and screenwriter . His short film drama Everything in This Country Must was nominated for an Oscar in 2005.
Life
Gary McKendry grew up in the Northern Irish town of Ballyclare in County Antrim, about 25 km north of Belfast . He attended Belfast College of Art at the University of Ulster in Belfast for a year before enrolling at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London . McKendry graduated with a degree in art and film and then worked as a storyboard artist in London before moving to Australia where he worked as an advertising professional. A job offer from the American advertising agency TBWA \ Chiat \ Day drew him to New York City , where he later switched to the agency Ogilvy & Mather and Margeotes Fertitta.
Ultimately, McKendry founded his own advertising film agency Go Film and created award-winning commercials for clients such as IKEA , Porsche , Heineken , NASDAQ , Budweiser and DeBeers . After eyeing the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , he was interviewed about the events by the Northern Irish radio station BBC Radio Ulster .
Directorial work
After reading the novel by the writer Colum McCann, McKendry decided to make the twenty-minute short film of the same name, Everything in This Country Must . In 2003 he spent a lot of time filming in his northern Irish homeland, Belfast. The film was nominated for a prize in the Best Short Film category at the 2005 Academy Awards, but Andrea Arnold's British short film drama Wasp won it.
He made his feature film debut in 2011 with the action thriller Killer Elite , based on the biographical novel The Feather Men by the adventurer and writer Sir Ranulph Fiennes . The film, which stars Jason Statham , Clive Owen and Robert De Niro in the lead roles, was shot mostly in Australia.
Private life
Gary McKendry lives with his wife Celeste and two daughters in the Meatpacking District in Manhattan New York .
Awards
- 2005: Oscar nomination for Everything in This Country Must
Filmography
- 2004: Everything in This Country Must (writer and director)
- 2011: Killer Elite
Web links
- Gary McKendry in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Everything in This Country Must on Guerrilla Film Fest .com (Word document; 42 kB), accessed on November 11, 2011
- ↑ Number twenty one through one hundred on Creativity.com dated June 1, 2002 ( Memento of the original dated July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 11, 2011
- ↑ Newsletter of July 7th, 2009 on sourcetv.com ( Memento of the original of June 7th, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 11, 2011
- ^ Witnesses recall terror of attack , BBC News, September 12, 2001, accessed November 11, 2011
- ↑ Filming locations for Killer Elite in the IMDb , accessed on November 11, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McKendry, Gary |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Northern Irish film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ballyclare , County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK |