Antony Shearn, Curriculum Vitae
Luna - Cinecap/Baker Street Media Management/ Hourglass Studios
1;235 feature film, reprising Stephanie Leonidas, with Ben Daniels, Michael Maloney and Dervla Kerwan, filmed in full 4:4:4 uncompressed digital
with two ARRI D-20 cameras in Sony SRW1 recorders for a full digital-cinema release 2008/9
Exec producers Keith Evans, Keith Griffiths, producer Simon Moorhead - screenplay by Allen Spiegel and Dave McKean, directed by Dave McKean
Daedalus Hex - Magic Lantern Productions for BBC
Interactive drama, filmed on a build at Twickenham studios, to feature interstitial, playable computer games for the new ‘BBC Switch’ early teens
audience incentive - featuring Fflur Medi Owen, Chris Mack, Zara Tempest-Walters
directed by Rupert Harris produced by Mike Ogden
Lestat - Warner Bros theatre ventures
4 short live-action sequences for projection during Warner Bros/Elton John’s short-lived Broadway musical at the Palace Theatre, Broadway-
filmed both regular, blue-screen and on a steadicam and the first commercial application for a pre-production Arri D-20 full-height digital camera,
feeding into a Sony HDSR Cine Alta deck
show directed by Robert Jess Roth, featuring Hugh Panaro and Carolee Carmello- film segments directed by Dave McKean
Mirrormask - The Jim Henson Company for Columbia-Tristar/Sony Pictures
(released US 30/09/05 by Samuel Goldwyn, UK 03/03/06 by Tartan Films,Japan 03/11/06 by Sony Pictures)
1;1:85 feature film, written by Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean, with Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Gina McKee, Rob Brydon, Dora Bryan,
and voices and essences of Stephen Fry, Robert Lewellyn and Lenny Henry
Executive producers Lisa Henson, Mike Polis & Martin Baker; producer Simon Moorhead directed by Dave McKean
Official Selection Sundance 2005 /Official selection Sarasota film festival (audience award, ‘Best narrative feature’)
Official Selection Locarno film festival / Official Selection Edinburgh film festival / Official Selection London film festival
Dawn - Hourglass Studio
A shoot-it-quick exercise as Dave McKean makes a short film just for fun, filmed sd digital with my patented glass in-camera distortion effects system
Official selection Clermont-Ferrand film festival 2007
Renata Jonscher - Islands of Sorrow - Coverdrive Records
classical music video for the Polish mezzo soprano, filmed widescreen digibeta & Z-1
Mediaeval Baebes - Live dvd - Coverdrive Records
supervise and operate multi-camera coverage of the girls doing their thing
Lullabelle - Fable Factory Films
s16mm short, (rt 14mins) filmed in 1;1:78 with a cast of Jackie Morrison, Michael Kirk, Su Pollard and Christopher Biggins
produced and directed by Gemma Page & Tanja Ludyga Winchester film festival nominee
A-Z of Goldfish - an HD Special - NHK Enterprises Europe
documentary filmed around the UK on shubunkin fish breeding. directed by Minako Kurachi
Signal To Noise - Illuminations Films with the participation of The Film Council
Pilot project as development for a full feature film of a 1996 BBC R3 play by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, filmed with 13 digital cameras
and super8mm film - produced by Keith Griffiths, directed by Dave McKean
Neon - Hourglass Studio
Personal short film (rt 25mins) shot super16mm for extensive 3D compositing with Dave’s own super8mm Venice footage and entire cg
environments; With Eamonne Collinge, Eilleen Daly; directed by Dave McKean
Official selectionTelluridefilm festival 2003 / Official selection Clermont-Ferrand 2004 - winner - best in festival
Ghostwatch - Echoes of the Past - BBC Worldwide for BBC America / UK Horizons
12x4min dramatised monologues, 30x10sec stings/inserts, 1x 60min documentary for TX during a live Tower of London
ghosthunting OB / global webcast, presented by Paul Darrow & Claudia Christian
produced by Andrew Mark Sewell directed by Luc Chamberland
Kiss of the Spiderwoman - Nottingham Playhouse
Unusual circular presentation of pre-filmed digibeta drama sequences played out as part of live performance,
featuring Adrian Scarborough, Keith Osborn and Sean Dooley; directed by Philip Franks
The Week Before - Hourglass studio
s16mm short (rt 25mins) describing what God might have been doing the week before he made the universe;
and is the film that initially attracted the Henson company towards commissioning ‘Mirrormask’
With Dean Harris playing God, and Eamonne Collinge the devil; directed by Dave McKean
Izzy - Una Furtiva Lagrima/ My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose - Virgin Records
2 x music promos, shot s16mm back-to-back, with heli aerials + blue screen for 3D composite - directed by Dave McKean
Shakespeare's Sonnet # 138 - Illuminations for BBC tv
s16mm studio shoot of a 1min film for (ongoing?) BBC2 multiple-director project; this one by Dave McKean
Transatlantic Windsurf Race 2000 - SSM Freesports
An Atlantic ocean windsurf attempt from Portugal to Brazil, although it all ended rather badly in the canaries...
shot boat-to-boat digibeta, betaSP, a gyrozoom and a bunch of vx1000’s (which couldn’t hack it)
Buckethead – The Ballad of Buckethead - Columbia Records
music promo for LA guitar artist Buckethead, designed and directed by Dave McKean; Billboard award nominee
Kodak - The Image - Artemis Communications Ltd for Saatchi & Saatchi NY
s16mm film shoot (rt 24mins) of 'quasi making of’ documentary film for Eastman Kodak; directed by Dave McKean
Raindance- 7th film festival title - Raindance
Theatrical trail/title sequence (rt 1min 12secs) filmed 35mm combining live action and 3D animation;
distributed by Warner Bros with a THX soundtrack; directed by Dave McKean
The Quintessential Englishman Abroad - Charleston Films for Discovery Channel (Europe)
s16mm documentary (1hr) about a maverick Englishman living the life of Reilly on an idyllic tropical paradise island
off the Kenya coast; directed by Sebastian Lyte
Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio – a PMI/Juggler films co-production for BBC tv
BBC Arena special; (A cam, David Feig), extensive 16mm shoot over 6 months as McCartney composed
his opera with Carl Davis, featuring Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Willard White, Sally Burgess; directed by Anne Paul
Acacia Tours Promo - Hotshot Productions
Safariing 2,000+ miles across Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe, featuring
white-water rafting, helicopter aerials, even a point-of-view bungy jump (never again) - produced by Doug Smith
various music-biz interviews - MTV/ VH-1 production
indulging endless pop star egos and entourage policing and all in all thoroughly amusing
as director/camera;
Williams F1 High performance computer - Lenovo Technology UK Ltd
Design, shoot, composite and cut mainly time-lapse coverage at the Williams F1 race team wind tunnel # 1 to arrive
at a short video to illustrate Lenovo’s largest computer installation outside of China. Co-ordinated by Kate Robins
Odd Pot (2005) - UFO (2004) / UFO II (2004) - Converse All-Stars for Butler, Shine & Stern, Sausalito, Ca
finalist/winner, short films/commercials - filmed dvcam and animated in AE.
Produced by Francesca Prada and John Butler - you can see UFO at conversegallery.com Andy award winner
Tenacious - Jubilee Sailing Trust
doing everything- shoot, edit, respond to the committee’s persistent and vague alterations, on voyage TN56 of the
beautiful tall-ship Tenacious, as a fund-raiser @ the Dorchester hotel ballroom, hosted by HRH Princess Anne
Mirrormask press release - The Jim Henson Company
4 min video, hurriedly assembled as the first public preview item, shown at comicon San Diego to an audience of 5k+
Ghostwatch - Echoes of the Past - BBC Worldwide
1 min promotional teaser (see previous entry) for ‘general-purpose exposure' at MipCom 2002
