Bryn Higgins

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Biography

Bryn is a British film and television director and producer who has directed EMMY-award winning shows including Black Mirror and created original series. After the Royal College of Art, Bryn made pop promos for various companies including Factory Records, and documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 in over 15 countries. He has directed on high profile single dramas and series. He was BAFTA-Nominated for Originality and selected for INPUT with his Channel 4 thriller series The King of Chaos. His period drama London Hospital for the BBC was twice RTS-Nominated for Best Drama Series. Bryn's feature films include Unconditional, a darkly comic transgender romance written by Sukey Fisher, selected for Edinburgh International Film Festival as well as Munich, Giffoni, the Taipei Golden Horse and San Francisco's Frameline Festival. Electricity, starring Agyness Deyn, was supported by the BFI, selected for the London Film Festival among many others and won a National Film Award. Distributed by Netflix, Electricity has caused controversy in countries where taboos about epilepsy still abound. Bryn's most recent feature, Access All Areas, is a kaleidoscopic road movie about teenagers fleeing their parents to go to a music festival. Shot partly at Bestival it features artists like Tame Impala, Royal Blood, Underworld, Future Islands, The Who, Duke Dumont, and was selected for the Audience Award at Edinburgh International Film Festival and special screening at the East End Film Festival. Bryn is working on his next feature with the BFI, based on Rory Maclean's beautiful book 'Falling For Icarus', with producer Hilary Bevan Jones .

  • Primary profession
  • Director·producer·writer
  • Country
  • United Kingdom
  • Nationality
  • British
  • Gender
  • Male

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