Brian Barnes is an astrophysicist turned emotional filmmaker. He makes films about characters forced to confront the reality that the world is not the way it seems.

Brian has made nearly 30 short films, including the 5 times award-winning ‘The Urge’, which won a Best Screenplay award and also a Best Film Prize under jury president Timothy Burrill (producer of Roman Polanski’s ‘The Pianist’). ‘The Urge’ was the 8th most watched horror film on IndieFlix for well over a year.

Brian’s first feature film, ‘The Redeeming’, was nominated for Best Thriller in the UK’s National Film Awards 2019. Brian is constantly developing other projects with its writer, Roger Thomas, including their psychological horrors ‘Rip’t’ and ‘Refracted’ and thriller ‘Reformed’.

Brian has been making films since 1987, mostly working in the corporate video sector, where he has made films for 3 of the world’s trillion-dollar companies - Amazon, Apple and Microsoft - and made 2 charity videos with (then-Prime-Minister) Tony Blair. Other clients include Facebook & Google, and Brian won the Snippies Award for his video for Intel. He has directed over 500 hours of live television on Sky in the UK and SABC2 in South Africa. One of his TV shows was the cult favourite ‘Bikini Beach’.

Brian is renowned amongst fellow British indie filmmakers as “the man who gave Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk, Interstellar, Batman trilogy) his first job”.