Giles Borg

Giles Borg has more than twenty years of experience in film and television directing music videos commercials TV programmes and featurelength movies Originally trained as a sculptor Giles started his career in the music business making videos and documentaries for various bands At the same time he started making commercials and TV shows while also building up a catalogue of short films Confident with either comedy or drama and usually scripting his own pieces he was soon in demand working with international brands such as Samsung Hewlett Packard and PlayStation However it was narrative cinema that always interested Giles The shorts began to get a lot of attention on the festival circuit and soon Giles was asked to move into feature films Always writing he has over a dozen feature scripts to his name Giles chose a story that mirrored his early days playing gigs to be his first feature 1234 the story of a small indie band falling in and out of love with fame was nominated as Best Film at the London Film Festival and was released theatrically by Soda Pictures After 1234 he was hired to direct his second film Flutter a darkly comedic tale about gamblers and risk starring Luke Evans Mark Williams Joe Anderson Billy Zane and Laura Fraser He has a number of productions in development including a number of feature projects and long form TV dramas and is represented by Maththew Dench at Dench Arnold Giles lives in London and when not making films he plays the piano badly