Jack Pirie

Jack is an award-winning writer, director and creative director for TV/Film and live / theatrical entertainment.

Previous work includes the THEA award-winning THE WAR OF THE WORLDS IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE (Writer/Director ☆☆☆☆ Time Out) which has been running for six years in London, and ELVIS EVOLUTION (☆☆☆☆ City AM) a multi-million pound production blending cutting-edge digital technology with theatre and film, to tell the story of Elvis’s origins and musical roots, through the lens of childhood friend Sam Bell.

His film, THE STORM CHASER garnered international festival awards and critical acclaim, described as “beautifully unexpected, a mystical exploration of encounters between man and nature” by Definition Magazine. He has also developed multiple TV series including detective-noir Take Me Back with Redrum and heist-thriller Pen with Wild Mercury Productions. Other films include BITE, THE SUPERMAN, and SIGNIFICANCE, plus numerous music videos and commercials.

He is currently developing his debut horror feature, Ten Turns The Sun, alongside various TV and Film projects.

Production
Company
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PEN
Writer/Creator

ALIGNMENT
Sci-fi TV Pilot
Three years after his wife vanishes from their home, a disillusioned FBI agent turns in his badge and sets off into the borderlands to find her, paying a criminal trafficking gang $150k to transport him to the Alternate – a reality almost identical to ours that has become a strange and dangerous place of escape for immigrants, criminals and anyone looking for a new place to call home.

Film

Production
Company
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THE STORM CHASER
Crown & Co
Received multiple awards and festival recongition including Wimbledon International Short Film Festival's Best Documentary Award

BITE
Short for Channel 4, Alter
Rejected from yet another audition, a young dancer battles with her demons of self-doubt.

THE SUPERMAN
Short for Nat Geo
A lone freediver escapes to another world where his impossible dream becomes reality
Vimeo Staff Pick, CNN, Bermuda FF

SIGNIFICANCE
Shorts International TV, London Short Film Festival, Aesthetica, Palms Springs Shortsfest, Portsmouth, Winchester
Writer/Director
A young astronomer makes an incredible discovery one evening that forces him to consider his place in the universe.

SIGNIFICANCE
Writer
A young pianist/amateur scientist is mysteriously hired to perform at the birthday celebrations of an enigmatic tech entrepreneur at his country residence for one night, leaving behind her son who suffers from severe epilepsy. But when she finds hersekf locked down in the building, unable to leave, it soon becomes clear that this is no country residence. Gradually our characters unravel the terrifying truth about this place, and the reality that they will soon find themselves in the most significant location on earth.

RESONANCE
Sci-fi Feature
A stem-cell scientist is recruited for an interplanetary deep-sea expedition in search of a mysterious organism in the ocean of Europa, which could hold the key to her research on Earth.

CALL ME FEARLESS
After her youtube video goes viral, a young, aspiring video journalist with anxiety issues lands a job with Fearless – a mysterious, cutting edge, disruptive online news agency who specialise in telling voyeuristic crime stories from the dark and murky side of society.

HELLO ME
Horror Feature
Fifteen years after she ran away – Farah Daley (29) returns home to the traditional, coastal town in Scotland where she was brought up, to find she now has a teenage sister. But while she tries to reconcile with her family and build a new life for herself, she begins to unravel a dark and horrifying mystery at the heart of the community.

RENAISSANCE ONE
Sci-fi Feature
A disillusioned high school teacher achieves the American dream when he is selected for Renaissance Two – a privately-owned space-flight project to establish the first human settlement on Mars. But as he delves deeper into the company’s mysterious programme, he is soon forced to confront the true meaning of greatness.

Theatre

Production
Company
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ELVIS EVOLUTION
Layered Reality
An immersive live show celebrating the life of Elvis Presley, at the Immerse London Excel Waterfront, blending cutting-edge digital technology with theatre.

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
Layered Reality
THEA award-winning multi-disciplinary immersive experience, currently running in London – adapted from the Jeff Wayne/H.G. Wells IPs.

About Jack Pirie

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