Hugh McGrory

Current

• Digital Media Creative at Private/Confidential

Past

• Creative Director at Cineclectic
• Conference Ambassador at Cinemagic
• Visiting Filmmaker in Residence, CINEMA microscopy lab at Yale University School of Medicine

• Production Executive at Northern Ireland Screen
• Founder, Creative Director at Make Films Limited
• Teaching Fellow, Film Studies Department at Queen's University Belfast
• Film Acting Tutor at The Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin

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Education

• Olsberg SPI
• University of Ulster

Recommended

7 people have recommended Hugh

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Media Production

Websites

• Twitter

Hugh McGrory’s Summary

Award-winning film director/producer, exploring the narratives of innovation.

Innovation Consultant. Delegate on International Digital Media Trade Missions as Creative Entrepreneur.

Commissioned as a writer/director/producer/executive producer on over 30 short films - film+digital, live-action+CG, doc+drama.

Director of media commercials and campaigns. Helping brands to lead the innovation conversation.

My goal is to document innovation and to network my collaborators who seem at first glance to have little or nothing in common.

"If you told him there were strange looking goats on the top of a hill, he'd be away up the hill" - My Mother

Hugh McGrory’s Specialties:

Film-making, imaging, social networking, online video and communication, video for mobile and other handheld devices, experimentation, innovation, motivation, positive energy, an open mind, seeing new connections between traditionally separate things.

Hugh McGrory’s Experience

• Digital Media Creative

  Private/Confidential

  (Media Production industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

  Digital Media Creative & Consultant on Innovation Projects - from ICT to Bio / Nanotech and Film / Digital Media. Creating mechanisms whereby things that were separated can get mixed. Helping to blur the boundaries of science, technology and art.

• Creative Director

  Cineclectic

  (Media Production industry)

  2008 — February 2009 (1 year )

  Cineclectic is an online (ongoing Beta) HD video interview project designed to document the narratives of innovation. The project to date has featured contributions from Stanford University, Silicon Valley Innovation Institute, Adobe, Nanoart, Yale University and the Producers Guild of America.

• Conference Ambassador

  Cinemagic

  (Media Production industry)

  November 2008 — 2009 (1 year )

  Consultant facilitating the Cinemagic Children's Media Festival to create a high profile showcase in New York and a conference in Ireland in 2010

• Visiting Filmmaker in Residence, CINEMA microscopy lab

  Yale University School of Medicine

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  July 2007 — September 2007 (3 months)

  Working with Dr Derek Toomre and Franziska-Maria Apprich collecting and creating biomedical (still and moving) images using a range of microscopy techniques.

• Production Executive

  Northern Ireland Screen

  (Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  September 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 5 months)

  Executive Producer for 'Deviate' - 16 x Digital Short Films financed by NI Screen and the UK Film Council. Also responsible for the delivery of 'Shortsteps', 2 x 6 month training schemes for writers, directors and producers.

• Founder, Creative Director

  Make Films Limited

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  2003 — 2006 (3 years )

  'Make' mixed film, animation, music and design while exploring the blurring boundaries between these disciplines. Make was commissioned by Panasonic Japan and Guinness for commercials, BBC NI, IFB and NI Screen for short films, BBC and C4 for soundtracks, Peter Gabriel and Ninja Tune Records for music promos and secured a place on the prestigious Jumpstart program with Adobe. We tried to question the tools we were given, seeing digital technology as it was and still is - at a very early stage of development.

• Teaching Fellow, Film Studies Department

  Queen's University Belfast

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years )

• Film Acting Tutor

  The Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Performing Arts industry)

  1996 — 1998 (2 years )

Hugh McGrory’s Education

• Olsberg SPI

  Creative Entrepreneurship Programme 2004 — 2005

• University of Ulster

  BA , Media , 1989 — 1993

Additional Information

Hugh McGrory’s Websites:

• Twitter

Hugh McGrory’s Interests:

Film-making, Imaging, Art, Nanoart, Social Networking, New Technologies, Convergence, Innovation, Traveling, Music

Hugh McGrory’s Groups:

New York Festivals - International Judge (Commercials), LION, e-scension, OpenID, Film and TV Professionals, Digital Cinema, ThinkLink!, Speakers & Panelists, Twitter

•    The Media Group - Production, Exhibition, Broadcast and 3D
•    <<< Friends of Ireland >>>
•    MovieProfs :: professionals working in the Movie Business::
•    Speakers and Panelists
•    ThoseinMedia
•    Hedge Private Equity and Private Film Financing
•    Semantic Web
•    Hollywood Greenlight Group
•    e-Scension.com
•    Filmmakers
•    New York Venture Community
•    Film TV Professionals
•    Film Financing Forum (3,000+)
•    Media@Convergence
•    NEW YORK CITY
•    212NYC
•    Emerging Technology Group
•    Campaign for a U.S. Department of Peace and Nonviolence
•    Music Industry Forum
•    Irish Business Association
•    TopFollowed.com (Twitter Open Networkers)
•    My Virtual Power Forum
•    Patron of the Arts
•    Film Tax Incentives
•    IFN Film
•    Post Production Professionals
•    Network Expansion
•    TopFollowed.com - Follow Me on Twitter!

Hugh McGrory’s Honors:

2006 Datatransfer Festival, Prague - Work Retrospective

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated - Presenter (IBC), Holland

2000 Belfast Arts Award - Film, TV & Video Category

2000 Belfast Film Festival - Kodak Prize, Best Irish Short

2000 Aspen Shortsfest (Colorado) - Finalist

1998 Foyle Film Festival - Best Irish Short (Joint)

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