BA Hons (Film & Media)
With a career spanning over thirty years of filmmaking, Ray Brady’s films have continued to win numerous international awards for best film, director, producer, editor, sound designer, SFX & scriptwriting.
Ray Brady’s first feature Boy Meets Girl (1994) was made in the first year of his Film & Media degree after selling his flat and its contents to help raise the production budget. Originally shot on 16mm the film was blown up to 35mm, it screened in competition at Edinburgh, Birmingham, Sitges, Viennale, Fantasporta, and a dozen other major festivals and competitions.
The film premiered at the NFT 1 and was screened at the ICA and at over forty other cinemas in the UK including the Glasgow film theatre and the Irish Film Centre in Dublin. The low-budget cult feature film Boy Meets Girl (1994) was shot on a microbudget of £13,000 and was screened in competition at Stiges in direct competition against The Mask (1994) a film that had a budget of several thousand times its budget and also Michael Haneke’s 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance. Also, in direct competition with Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction at the second Raindance Film Festival.
For the last eight years, Ray has partnered with the Producer Anne Nauth-Misir to form the company UKFILM.CO a highly successful collaboration that led to the production of several multi-award-winning short films and the release in 2018 of both a narrative portmanteau feature horror films Psychomanteum along with a documentary feature (co-directed with his eighteen-year-old daughter Athen) Articulate.
Both films received international distribution and a global release via Amazon.
UKFILM.CO will release its latest indie feature films on the 1st of Jan 2024. “Demon Host”, a psychological thriller along with “Science Friction”, a portmanteau feature made up of a collection of sci-fi-themed short films, half of them produced and filmed at ISSA with casts made up solely of attending students. UKFILM.CO continues to develop a slate of other feature films with its project “Nightmares” presently in production shooting over 2024.