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Ray Brady (filmmaker)

Ray Brady (born September 10th, 1961) is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. His filmmaking career spans over twenty-five years. Brady has been described as an auteur with his films bearing a distinctly idiosyncratic style.

1990s
Brady’s first film was Boy Meets Girl (1994), a feature in which a young man is seduced by a woman at a bar and lured back to her apartment where he is tortured by the woman and her accomplice. The film was made on a very small budget of just over £10,000 and was screened at several film festivals, winning the Best Debut Feature award at Raindance 1994. The film’s video release was blocked by the BBFC for seven years, which hampered its chances of further theatrical success.

Brady’s next film was Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (1997), a dark drama in which a young man develops an obsession with his new neighbour, which leads to her murder.

Little England (1997) was a foray into the world of non-fiction, exploring the notion of what English culture through interviews with young people of the time.

2000s
Brady’s first film of the 2000s was Love Life (2002), a romantic comedy about a single mother and an absent father.

Day of the Sirens (2003) marked a return to the dark drama of Brady’s earlier works. The film depicts four interlinking stories, revolving around a spate of murders committed by a serial killer on a London summer’s day.

In Intergalactic Combat (2007), a sci-fi feature, aliens arrive at a meeting of the United Nations, inviting Earth to join the Galactic Federation, on the condition that Earth sends an unarmed group of warriors to fight at the Galactic Games.

2010s
Brady’s next feature was Egression (2010), a drama exploring themes of escapism, relationships and redemption.

Brady then wrote, directed, and co-produced Afraid of the Dark (2012), a short film in which one man’s neighbourhood is prey to an attacker who kills his victims under cover of darkness. This film was Brady’s first collaboration with Anne Nauth-Misir, who was the film’s Executive Producer. The film later appeared in Psychomanteum (2018), an anthology of British horror shorts directed by Brady and produced by Nauth-Misir. Brady collaborated with his daughter Athen to co-direct Articulate (2018), in which teenagers discuss big topics set to music and complementary video footage overlaid using a blue screen.

Brady’s next horror short was It’s in the Trees (2018), a psychological horror produced by Nauth-Misir. The film depicts a group of teenagers investigating a meteorite that lands on Earth. The film won awards at several independent film festivals.

Personal Life
Brady has a daughter, Athen, born 17 January 2000 who appears in many of her father's films. Her first appearance was in the feature film Love Life (2002) at the age of eight months, in which she portrayed the role of Pea. The role of Pea’s father, Ben Fields was performed by Ray Brady.