John Hay

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia John Hay 1964 is an English film director who was born in Kolkata in India where his mother Elizabeth Partridge worked as a foreign correspondent for the News Chronicle He returned to England and was raised in Sussex where he started making films at the age of twelve He studied Film and Drama at the University of Reading where he was awarded a First for his quirky comedic short about Bertrand Russells meditative essay on a table After leaving university he began directing for UK television making dramas such as Looking Back and two adaptations of Heathcote Williams epic poems Falling for a Dolphin and Autogeddon which starred Academy Awardwinner Jeremy Irons Autogeddon was critically revered and won the Jury Prize at Shanghai which led to Hay working with Al Pacino on Every Time I Cross the Tamar I Get into Trouble a short about Pacinos personallyfinanced feature The Local Stigmatic which was based on a stage play by Heathcote Williams He worked again with Pacino in 1996 on Looking for Richard starring Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin With his writing partner Rik Carmichael he cowrote and directed a critically acclaimed adaptation of a Jim Corbett story The ManEating Leopard of Rudraprayag which starred Jason Flemyng and Jodhi May He also directed an adaptation of the childrens classic Stig of the Dump for the BBC which won a BAFTA and an EMMY He is perhaps best known for his film Theres Only One Jimmy Grimble starring Robert Carlyle and Ray Winstone which won the Crystal Bear for Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival in 2001 and ten other first prizes including the Golden Griffin for best feature at Giffoni Film Festival He is currently directing Journey Through Midnight an adaptation of WhitbreadAward winner Jamila Gavins Wheel of Surya the story of Indian Partition seen through the eyes of a child Description above from the Wikipedia article John Hay director licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia