2000-05-16

John Farrelly is a filmmaker from Ireland. At the age of 17, John was crowned 'Ireland's Best Young Filmmaker' following the success of his short film, 'Choice'. He then embarked on his first feature film, 'The Sleep Experiment', which earned him the Jury Prize at the LA Horror Film Festival. Farrelly subsequently directed the Star Wars short film, 'The Lost Jedi', and the coming-of-age Irish language short, 'Different'. Currently, he is working on his second feature, 'An Taibhse' (The Ghost), notable for being the first Irish language horror feature ever made.