Gary Sinyor
{{Short description|English film director, producer, and writer}}
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Gary Sinyor (born Manchester, England, 1962) is an English film director, producer, and writer.{{cite web |title=Sinyor, Gary 1962– |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/sinyor-gary-1962 |website= Encyclopedia.com}}{{cite web |title=Sinyor, Gary (1962-) Biography |url=https://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/507550/index.html |website=screenonline |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=4 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040531094012/https://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/507550/index.html |archive-date=May 31, 2004}}{{cite web |title=Gary Sinyor |url=https://ukjewishfilm.org/people/gary-sinyor-2/ |website=UK Jewish Film Festival |access-date=4 April 2025}}
Early life
Sinyor was raised in a Sephardic Jewish family of six children,{{cite news |last1=Bolton-Fasman |first1=Judy |title=New Amazon Comedy Series Skewers the Jewish Media |url=https://www.jewishboston.com/read/new-amazon-comedy-series-skewers-the-jewish-media/ |access-date=4 April 2025 |work=JewishBoston |publisher=Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston |date=June 16, 2020}} in West Didsbury,{{cite web |title=Becky Want, Gary Sinyor |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fnt3k4 |website=BBC Radio Manchester |publisher=BBC |access-date=4 April 2025 |date=June 6, 2023 |quote=Becky chats with Didsbury born writer, Gary Sinyor, about comedy show, Hapless, which releases a second series.}}{{cite news |last1=Dorsett |first1=Bethan |title='I was almost terminated by movie star' |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/i-was-almost-terminated-by-movie-star-909366 |access-date=4 April 2025 |work=Manchester Evening News |date=12 January 2013 |language=en}} attended Cambridge University (1983)
- {{cite web |title='Leon The Pig Farmer' Director: Vadim Jean, Gary Sinyor UK, 1992 |url=https://wncc.org.uk/pdf/270.pdf |website=Film notes |publisher=Woking Film Club |access-date=5 April 2025 |date=12 April 1994}}
- {{cite web |title='Leon The Pig Farmer' Director: Vadim Jean, Gary Sinyor UK, 1992 |url=https://www.wncc.org.uk/wnccfilmdetails34.php?filmidselect=%20270 |website=Film details |publisher=Woking Film Club |access-date=5 April 2025 |date=12 April 1994}}
- {{cite web |title='Last Of The Mohicans' Director: Michael Mann USA, 1992 |url=https://wncc.org.uk/pdf/269.pdf |website=Film notes |publisher=Woking Film Club |access-date=5 April 2025 |date=29 March 1994}}
- {{cite web |title='Last Of The Mohicans' Director: Michael Mann USA, 1992 |url=https://www.wncc.org.uk/wnccfilmdetails34.php?filmidselect=%20269 |website=Film details |publisher=Woking Film Club |access-date=5 April 2025 |date=29 March 1994}}
and later attended the National Film and Television School.{{cite web | title = Interview with Gary Sinyor | publisher = Something Jewish | date = 19 July 2002 | url = http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/59_interview_with_gary_.htm | archive-date = 22 December 2003 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20031222225716/http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/59_interview_with_gary_.htm | url-status = dead }}
Career
In 1988, as writer and producer of a National Film and Television School student-film, The Unkindest Cut (1988),{{cite web |title=The Unkindest Cut (1988) |url=https://www.tvguide.com/movies/the-unkindest-cut/cast/2000029085/ |website=TVGuide.com |access-date=4 April 2025 |language=en}} "a witty look at a guy who's suffering from all his Jewish mates doing far better in life than he is",{{cite web |title=review - 'Leon the Pig Farmer' DVD |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/07/17/leon_the_pig_farmer_1992_dvd_review.shtml |website=BBC |access-date=5 April 2025}} director Jim Shields was nominated for BAFTA best short film.{{cite web |title=Short Film |url=https://www.bafta.org/awards/film/short-film |website=Bafta |access-date=4 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241227161436/https://www.bafta.org/awards/film/short-film |archive-date=27 December 2024 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Parkinson |first1=David |title=Ask Parky: The Phelps of the Oscars |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/aug/19/film.michaelphelps |access-date=4 April 2025 |work=The Guardian |date=19 August 2008}}
"When The Unkindest Cut went out on the BBC,{{cite web |title=ScreenPlay Firsts: 'The Unkindest Cut' |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/397b002d35d64a6b8df4811c0f23b829 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk BBC Programme Index |access-date=5 April 2025 |date=4 January 1990 |quote=Thu 4 Jan 1990, 22:10 on BBC Two England}} Eric Idle{{cite news |last1=Rosenbaum |first1=Jonathan |title=Leon the Pig Farmer |url=https://chicagoreader.com/film-tv/leon-the-pig-farmer/ |access-date=5 April 2025 |work=Chicago Reader |date=26 October 1985}}{{cite web |title=Leon the Pig Farmer |url=https://jewishfilm.org/Catalogue/films/leon.htm |website=jewishfilm.org |access-date=5 April 2025}} saw it and rang the next day and commissioned Gary's first feature film – Leon The Pig Farmer"
In 1992, as a co-writer, co-producer, and co-director of Leon the Pig Farmer (1992), he shared the FIPRESCI International Critics' Prize at the 1992 Venice Film Festival, the Chaplin Award for the best first feature from the 1992 Edinburgh International Film Festival, the 1994 Best Newcomer award from the London Critics' Circle, and the Most Promising Newcomer (shared with Vadim Jean) from the 1994 Evening Standard British Film Awards. He has since handed back his Chaplin award,{{cite news |last1=Akbar |first1=Arifa |title=Director hands back award in protest at Loach |url=https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/news/director-hands-back-award-in-protest-at-loach-1693143.html |access-date=4 April 2025 |work=The Independent |date=29 May 2009}} after becoming involved in a dispute between the Edinburgh Festival and the Embassy of Israel in London.{{cite news |title=Gary Sinyor attacks Edinburgh Film Festival for returning £300 to Israeli Embassy |url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/scotland-travel/edinburgh/gary-sinyor-attacks-edinburgh-film-festival-for-returning-pound300-to-israeli-embassy-fr2tcl700xk |access-date=4 April 2025 |work=thetimes.com |date=31 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250404202335/https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/scotland-travel/edinburgh/gary-sinyor-attacks-edinburgh-film-festival-for-returning-pound300-to-israeli-embassy-fr2tcl700xk |archive-date=4 April 2025 |language=en}}
The 2002 DVD release of Leon the Pig Farmer also included Sinyor's writing debut The Unkindest Cut, which had been nominated for a BAFTA as Best Short Film in 1989.
In 2010, Sinyor produced, and David Frost executive produced, for Magnet Films, Retreat (2011).{{cite web |title=Cillian Murphy To Star In 'The Retreat' |url=http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/cillian-murphy-to-star-in-%E2%80%98the-retreat%E2%80%99 |website=Deadline.com |access-date=4 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100730113313/http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/cillian-murphy-to-star-in-%E2%80%98the-retreat%E2%80%99 |archive-date=30 July 2010}}{{cite news |last1=Anderson |first1=John |title=Retreat |url=https://variety.com/2011/film/reviews/retreat-1117945702/ |access-date=4 April 2025 |work=Variety |date=25 July 2011}}{{cite web |last1=Kay |first1=Jeremy |title=SPWA swoops on North American rights to Magnet thriller Retreat |url=https://www.screendaily.com/distribution/spwa-swoops-on-north-american-rights-to-magnet-thriller-retreat/5026957.article |website=screendaily.com |access-date=4 April 2025 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Sneider |first1=Jeff |title=Sony going on 'Retreat' |url=https://variety.com/2011/film/news/sony-going-on-retreat-1118036408/ |access-date=4 April 2025 |work=Variety |date=5 May 2011}}{{cite web |title=Ester Charkham and Gary Sinyor |url=https://www.australianjewishnews.com/jew-talkin-to-me-ester-charkham-and-gary-sinyor/ |website=Jew Talkin’ To Me |publisher=The Australian Jewish News |access-date=4 April 2025}}{{cite web |last1=Fleming |first1=Mike Jr. |last2=Adler |first2=Tim |title=Jamie Bell Joins British Thriller 'The Retreat' |url=http://www.deadline.com/2010/08/jamie-bell-joins-the-retreat/ |website=Deadline.com |access-date=5 April 2025 |date=12 August 2010}}
In March 2016, Sinyor's first play, NotMoses opened at the Arts Theatre in the West End of London.{{cite web |last1=Peterson |first1=Tyler |title=Cast Announced for NOTMOSES at Arts Theatre |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/uk-regional/article/Cast-Announced-for-NOTMOSES-at-Arts-Theatre-20160119 |website=BroadwayWorld.com |access-date=5 April 2025 |language=en |date=Jan 19, 2016}}{{cite news |last1=Sblendorio |first1=Marissa |title=Photos: New Look at NOTMOSES, Opening Tonight at Arts Theatre |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/article/Photo-Flash-New-Look-at-NOTMOSES-Opening-Tonight-at-Arts-Theatre-20160315 |access-date=5 April 2025 |work=BroadwayWorld.com |date=Mar 15, 2016 |language=en}}
In 2017, he wrote, directed and produced a psychological thriller The Unseen.
- https://britishcinematographer.co.uk/luke-palmer-and-his-cinematography-on-amaurosis-the-unseen/
- https://www.screamhorrormag.com/seeing-unseen-interview-gary-sinyor/
- http://lwlies.com/reviews/the-unseen/
- https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2017/11/movie-review-the-unseen-2017/
- https://www.radiotimes.com/film/fxrbhh/the-unseen/
It was released on 15 December 2017.
In 2020, his TV series The Jewish Enquirer was released in the UK and USA. It stars Tim Downie, Josh Howie, Lucy Montgomery, Jeany Spark, Daniel Sinyor, Geoff McGivern, and Michael Fenton Stevens.{{cite web |title='Hapless' - cast and crew credits |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/hapless/cast_crew/full/ |website=British Comedy Guide |access-date=4 April 2025 |language=en}}
Filmography
References
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External links
- https://www.garysinyor.com/
- https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/gary-sinyor/
- https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/writers/gary-sinyor/
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- [https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/gary-sinyor/3030318459/ Gary Sinyor] : tvguide
- {{IMDb name|id=0802551|name=Gary Sinyor}}
- {{cite web | title = Gary Sinyor – Awards | publisher = IMDb | url = https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0802551/awards }}
- {{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2042692/ |title=The Unseen |publisher=IMDb}}
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