Gary McKendry

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 ChiatDay and moved to New York City where he later worked for Ogilvy amp Mather and Margeotes Fertitta  Eventually McKendry branched out on his own founding the company Go Film and directing awardwinning 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 Arnolds 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia