John Herd

“John is a story-teller with several short animations under his belt including an award winner at the 2013 Bitcoin Film Festival in Germany, and the 2019 and 2020 “Best Animation” awards at the All Shorts festival. He wrote and directed the one-shot live action monologue “The Morning After” for which Gayle Hay won Best Actress award  at the ToTs Film Festival in 2019. In 2020 he produced Gayle’s movie “The Garden” which took home Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards. During 2021 he wrote and acted in the drama “9 Lives” and wrote and produced “Parsley” a black comedy set in the 1960s. His latest success was as Executive Producer (Special Effects) on Cameron Ross’ black comedy “Quicksand” which has been shown at several international film festivals.  Currently nearing the end of an animation with a crew of 13, as well as planning for a live-action short; he has also been a script advisor, an extra and worked the clapper board on various other shorts produced by the community.”