Corin Hardy

Corin Hardy is an award-winning filmmaker, whose live action and animated work mixes the macabre, the beautiful and the epic to visually dazzling results. His early career as a special FX monster-maker began in his bedroom and bike-shed, aged 12; he made a number of animations and super 8 films with school-friends who regularly stood in for his cast of zombies, werewolves and slasher victims. Throughout his teenage years Corin gained valuable film set experience in art and costume departments on a variety of film, TV & theatre productions including The Royal National Ballet's 'Dracula' and Columbia Pictures 'First Knight'. A keen sculptor, illustrator & film-maker obsessed by a mixture of 1970's storybooks, horror films and & 80's 'Spielberg era' cinema. Corin studied Special Effects at Wimbledon School of Art before making his award-winning stop-motion short film Butterfly in 2003. This led into directing music videos for Keane's 'Somewhere Only We Know' and 'Bedshaped' and films for a mix of mainstream acts including The Prodigy, Biffy Clyro, Olly Murs, Paolo Nutini and The Rizzle Kicks as well as underground indies The Horrors, Dry The River, The Horrible Crowes - and the 9 minute crime epic for Devlin and Ed Sheeran's Watchtower, all produced with Academy Films. His music videos have accrued over 150 million views and won numerous awards around the world. In 2011 Corin was selected as a 'Star Of Tomorrow' by Screen International. He directed a number of shorts including urban legends based horror 'In The Back' whilst writing and developing a number of his own horror-based feature film projects with UK and US production companies. His award-winning debut feature The Hallow premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2015. Show less «