- Born
- Height6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
- BAFTA & BIFA nominated director Gordon Napier is originally from the Highlands of Scotland and has a Master of Fine Art in Film Directing from The University of Edinburgh, his work there earned him the highly coveted UK Prince William BAFTA & Warner Bros. Film Scholarship.
Gordon's most recent film 1745 was nominated for a BAFTA & the (BIFA) British Independent Film Award for 'Best Short Film, received the 'Jury Special Mention' at the (EIFF) Edinburgh International Film Festival, screened in competition at the (LSFF) London Short Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, was a finalist at the (BIFF) Black International Film Festival and won 'Best Short Film' at the prestigious Africa International Film Festival. Further official selections include (IFFR) International Film Festival Rotterdam, (GSFF) Glasgow Short Film Festival, Oscar Qualifying (CIFF) Cleveland International Film Festival and the (NBFF) Newport Beach Film Festival where his most recent short ANAM also had its international premiere.
Represented by: Independent Talent (UK) + Creative Artists Agency (LA) Management 360 (LA)- IMDb Mini Biography By: Gordon Napier
- "When a writer and a director have different aesthetic starting points, compromise is impossible. It will destroy the very conception of the film. The film will not happen. When such a conflict occurs there is only one way out: to transform the literary scenario into a new fabric, which at a certain stage in the making of the film will come to be called the shooting script. And in the course of work on this script, the author of the film (not of the script but of the film) is entitled to turn the literary scenario this way or that as he wants. All that matters is that his vision should be whole, and that every word of the script should be dear to him and have passed through his own creative experience. For among the piles of written pages, and the actors, and the places chosen for location, and even the most brilliant dialogue, and the artist's sketches, there stands only one person: the director, and he alone, as the last filter in the creative process of film-making."
[Andrei Tarkovsky]
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