Johnny Allan
Johnny Teàrlach Allan is a BAFTA and Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker. He is lead Director on the hit Amazon Original THE DEVIL'S HOUR starring Jessica Raine and Peter Capaldi.
Raised in the Highlands, and trained at the National Film and Television School, while still a student he won the Audience and Jury Awards at Poitiers, the Gold Audience award at Fantasia, was nominated for an Iris Prize for best LGBQT+ filmmaking, and was nominated by The Academy as a Student Academy Awards finalist.
He then went on to direct Mammoth Screen's hit TV Series ENDEAVOUR and Netflix Original THE IRREGULARS, which reached Number 1 both on Netflix, but also on the Nielsen rankings as the most watched show on any network, or streamer worldwide. This also lead to a BAFTA Scotland nomination as Best Fiction Director and him becoming a Screen International Star of Tomorrow.
Johnny Allan is adapting Pulitzer Prize winning writer Karen Russell's novella SLEEP DONATION for television with Laura Deeley (OZARK), HIGH WINDOWS for Sue Vertue and Stephen Moffat's Hartswood Pictures and pharmaceutical thriller NUMB for 7stories.
The Devil's Hour which he led direct over two seasons was nominated as Best Drama at the International Emmys.
"A director of eye-popping visual style and deeply emotive film making" - Variety
"a dark rising star of Scottish cinema" - Nylon