Derek Boyes

Director

BIOGRAPHIE

Writer/Director Derek Boyes graduated from the National Film and Television School in 2004 with the spellbinding short, The Happiness Thief. The film premiered in competition at Cannes that same year and went on to play at film festivals across the world. Derek went on to directed shorts for Screen South, the BBC and the Bfi/UK Film Council while developing a slate of feature projects. His first screenplay Blackout, a gritty micro-budget thriller, was optioned by Ipso Facto Films in 2009 after it beat over 200 feature-length projects to the The Big Pitch final. Stepping back from the industry to bring up his daughter, Derek continued to develop shorts and feature projects, but became increasingly frustrated at not being in a position to make more films and so began to explore more resourceful and innovative ways to make regular no-budget shorts. In 2017 he took on multiple roles to make the award-winning i-phone short thriller Last Night. The success of this guerilla style of filmmaking, combined with advancements in affordable post-production, gave Derek the confidence to single-handedly undertake the abandoned VFX work on his long awaited family-fantasy The Infectious Imagination of Henry Bramble, the heart-warming complement to his highly successful NFTS graduate film.

FILMOGRAPHIE