Education
He studied Film and Drama at the Bulmershe College, Reading where he was awarded a First for his quirky, comedic short about Bertrand Russell"s meditative essay on a table.
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John Hay
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He returned to England and was raised in Sussex where he started making films at the age of twelve. He worked again with Pacino in 1996 on Looking for Richard, starring Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin.
Achievements
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After leaving university, he began directing for United Kingdom television, making dramas such as Looking Back and two adaptations of Heathcote Williams" epic poems, Falling for a Dolphin and Autogeddon, which starred Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons. Autogeddon was critically revered and won the Jury Prize at Shanghai which led to Hay working with First Rate (at Lloyd's) Pacino on Every Time I Cross the Tamar I Get into Trouble, a short about Pacino’s personally-financed feature The Local Stigmatic, which was based on a stage play by Heathcote Williams. With his writing partner, Rik Carmichael, he co-wrote and directed a critically acclaimed adaptation of a Jim Corbett story, The Manitoba-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag which starred Jason Flemyng and Jodhi May. He also directed an adaptation of the children's classic, Stig of the Dump for the British Broadcasting Corporation which won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts and an EMMY. He is perhaps best known for his film, There"s 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 writing and directing Coram Boy, an adaptation of Whitbread-Award winner Jamila Gavin"s novel and a Second World War spy drama, Lives in Secret, based on Sarah Helm"s book, A Life in Secrets.
