Bryan M. Ferguson

Life
Bryan M. Ferguson was born February 25th 1987 in Glasgow, Scotland. From a very young age he displayed an eye for creativity that was to eventually pave the way towards his career in filmmaking. His love of motion pictures was evident from age four, Ferguson made his first film at the age of eleven. Having no editing equipment he would edit the films he made with friends on the camera by stopping record at certain points and shooting from another set up as he would if he had the resources to shoot a full scene from 3 different camera angles. It proved time consuming but never seemed to bother the budding filmmaker.
After leaving secondary school he went onto college where he studied TV Operations and Production, in time receiving and HND.
Always the perfectionist, Ferguson's Italian heritage (on his Mother's side of the family) are clearly exhibited in the great passion and intensity he has for his work, making sure each reach his own high standard of quality. A characteristic he finds admirable in the late Stanley Kubrick and David Fincher.
Today he continues to intensely work on and develop on new and exciting projects.
JAR
Most recently Ferguson conducted an experiment to challenge himself and his abilities within his creative field. Quitting his job as a Night Porter to make JAR, a short film about a man who foolishly sells a treasured memory to a memory donation clinic. After realising his mistake he hunts down the woman who had his past experience implanted into her brain. Together they go on a bickering journey to reinsert his memory, even if it means rein-acting it from her mind.. The making of the film saw Ferguson as a one man crew, taking up all the roles behind the camera. The film is currently in consideration for the Glasgow Film Festival.
The film stars Darryl Girvan and Stascia Bantouvakis, two friends of Ferguson's and was shot within Glasgow, Scotland and Aberdour in Fife.
Withering Flowers
Ferguson's first film to be publicly screened was Withering Flowers in 2006. The film was screened at the Edinburgh Filmhouse. The film was a brutal depiction of domestic abuse, putting the audience head first into an unflinching and horrific encounter with an abusive partner. The film was shortlisted as part of a competition for an organisation to help awareness of violence against women for Zero Tolerance. After a successful Q & A, the film proved to be very affective as it was then again shown to the British Council in Edinburgh.
Ingrid, Odd
In 2009 another of Ferguson's short films was the cute yet macabre, 'Ingrid, Odd', a film that Clash magazine included in its Film Digest and hailed it as one of the top short films of 2009. The film was given a small but glowing review..
2010/2011
Ferguson is currently working on a new short film entitled, Remains. As well as writing his first feature length project.

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