Jonathan Figgis

Jonathan Figgis is a co-founder and director of award-winning film production company October Eleven Pictures, film director and producer. Having left October Eleven Pictures in 2012, he now heads Figgis Visuals.

Biography

He worked in the animation industry for a number of years, contributing on award-winning independent animated shorts as well as television series’ for the international market. When October Eleven Pictures was established, Jonathan was responsible for sourcing support from important post-production houses who have offered their services at reduced costs and who have shown great interest and support for their film-making ventures. This support was invaluable to Jonathan and his brother/business partner, Jason Figgis.

In 1999, Jonathan and his older brother Jason embarked on their collaborative filmmaking careers working on their first short film, Pallida Mors. But it was the advent of digital technology combined with their childhood dreams of making movies that lead them to set up the company, October Eleven Pictures in February 2001. The Figgis Brothers work very closely together to further enhance the productions which they endeavour to produce. Jonathan is a Producer & Writer and hopes to direct his first project in 2008.

Jonathan has been busy over the past couple of years working as producer or executive producer on a variety of programmes for Discovery Channel, Sky One, RTE (Ireland) and SVT (Sweden) among others. These shows include the feature-length documentary 'The Twilight Hour', 'Uri's Haunted Cities: Venice' with paranormalist Uri Geller and the co-production 'A Maverick In London' featuring Joanna Lumley, Steven Berkoff, Richard E. Grant, Alan Rickman and many more. There has been much success on the festival circuit with official selections at many international festivals, an IFTA Award nomination in 2003 and won Best Feature Film for 'A Curious Incident In The Life of Uri Geller' in 2006.

October Eleven Picture's first feature film '3Crosses' was completed for Spring 2010 whilst they were preparing for post-production on two feature films (shot Autumn 2007) entitled 'Handheld' and 'Blood'. 'Blood' premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2011.

After twelve years with October Eleven Pictures, Jonathan left in 2012 to work on a number of projects including a feature film that he was writing on and off since 2007. Under his new company, Figgis Visuals, this film will be its first release and is currently in pre-production. It will go into production in July 2013 with a release in 2014. Jonathan is also working on two documentaries and is writing a book/producing DVDs on self-defence.

Jonathan is a full voting member of the Irish Film & Television Academy.

External links

• October Eleven Pictures entry on IFTN
• The Mumbas Join 3CROSSES, ShowBiz Ireland, article about 3CROSSES, film produced by Jonathan Figgis and directed by Jason Figgis
• The Twilight Hour, review of documentary film Twilight Hour - Visions Of Ireland's Haunted Past produced by Jonathan Figgis and directed by Jason Figgis on Pop Twist entertainment
• The Twilight Hour - Visions Of Ireland's Haunted Past review and article on Cork Film Festival