Bryan M. Ferguson

Bryan M. Ferguson is a self-taught writer/director from Glasgow, Scotland. Labelled by The Herald as the "enfant terrible of Scottish film" and a “natural descendant of the Cinema of Transgression”, his work is both colourful and visceral. Paradoxically beautiful and disturbing - a juxtaposition of the uncanny and the surreal. His work has been screened at Academy Award and BAFTA qualifying festivals (e.g., Glasgow Short Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, Leeds International Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival) and have gained recognition and exposure on Dazed, Channel 4's Random Acts, Canal180, BBC iPlayer, Arrow Films' streaming service, Alter/Gunpowder & Sky, Screambox and broadcast on Adult Swim and Film 4.

Ferguson has had a number of retrospectives in cities across the United Kingdom which have showcased his short film and music video work, most recently at the London Short Film Festival 2022 and two separate events across Glasgow and Edinburgh held by The Skinny Magazine.

His most recent short film, Red Room, was commissioned by the Edinburgh International Book Festival and was selected for a nationwide theatrical run in 2022 as part of the British Film Institute’s In Dreams Are Monsters season after playing in competition at Encounters Film Festival.

When not making films, Ferguson has successfully been working as an independent music video director and has directed award nominated videos for established international artists such as Garbage, Alice Glass, Ladytron, Boy Harsher, Arab Strap, The Soft Moon, Låpsley, Sega Bodega and Ross From Friends.

Ferguson is currently in pre-production with Restless Natives Studios on his debut feature, Dysphonia, with principle photography slated for late 2024 after launching the project at Film London's Production Finance Market 2023. He is also developing, Funeral Home of which was selected by the BFI Network / Short Circuit's First Features scheme and a feature length version of his 2013 award nominated short, The Misbehaviour of Polly Paper Cut, which has been optioned by Silver Salt Films with the producers of BIFA nominated film, "Censor", attached.