Managing Director of award-winning film production company October Eleven Pictures, Jason Figgis has a background in the entertainment industry having worked creatively on two series of Murakami Wolf’s hugely successful animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He went on to work for Steven Spielberg on Amblimation's An American Tail: Fievel Goes West creating special effects for key scenes in the movie. He has also worked on the animated short Mutt directed by Damian O'Connor, which won Best Animated Film at the Manchester Film Festival in 1996. October Eleven Pictures is an Irish Production Company based in Dublin, Ireland. ... The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. ... Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946), commonly referred to as Steven Spielberg, is a highly famous, enormously influential, three-time Academy Award winning American film director and producer who is one of the most prominent figures from the world of cinema and whose very name has become synonymous... This article is becoming very long. ...

Jason has also been a member of the Illyria Theatre Company which toured with a production of All the World’s a Stage, an incorporation of popular scenes from Shakespeare's famous plays and also played the part of Valmont in a well received theatre production of Choderlos De Laclos' - Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) is a famous French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, first published in 1782. ...

In 1999, Jason and his younger brother Jonathan 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. Jason directs while his younger brother Jonathan produces.

Jason has been busy over the past couple of years working as director, director of photography and writer on a variety of programmes for The 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 Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) award nomination in 2003 and won Best Feature Film for 'A Curious Incident In The Life of Uri Geller' in 2006. Discovery Channel is an American cable TV network, based in Silver Spring, MD, that has a variety of science programming, particularly documentaries and nature shows. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Radio Telefís Éireann[1] (RTÉ; IPA: ,  ) is the Public Service Broadcaster of the Republic of Ireland. ... Sveriges Television (SVT) is a national publicly-funded television broadcaster based in Sweden. ... Uri Geller bending a spoon in public Uri Geller (Hebrew: אורי גלר), (born December 20, 1946 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli-British performer and celebrity who has drawn both fame and criticism with his claims to have psychic powers. ... Joanna Lumley and David McCallum as Sapphire & Steel. ... Steven Berkoff (born August 3, 1937) is an actor, writer and director. ... Richard E. Grant depicted as the unofficial Ninth Doctor. ... Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born February 21, 1946) is an acclaimed award-winning English film, television and stage actor. ...

At present, Jason is devoting his time to getting October Eleven Picture's first feature film 3Crosses completed for the fall of 2007.

Links

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