Glynn Beard

- BIOGRAPHY -

Glynn Beard was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on April 1^st, 1964. His parents gave him a Super 8 film camera at age 10. Glynn made his first short film, a mad scientist horror movie in 1974. There was a screening for his debut film to friends and family, which went so well that he continued to write, direct and act in short Super 8 films all through high school. Upon graduation from Prince of Wales High School in 1982, Glynn was admitted to the Centre for the Arts film school at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

 Beard’s first feature film, Murdered, went into production in January of 1992 and was completed by January of 1993. Glynn co-wrote, directed, produced, and played the lead actor in this film. It premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 1993 and was also shown at the Angelika Theatre in New York as part of the Independent Feature Film Market in 1994.

 In 1994 through to 1998, Glynn also co-produced, directed and acted in another feature film, The Crier, a horror film based upon the Mexican folk legend of ‘La Llorona’.

 In 1994, Glynn was hired on, with Leland Faulkner, as the Video Design artist for the theatre company Slightly Askew Players in Santa Barbara. From 1994 through to 1998 Glynn and Lee created video projection backgrounds to be used during play performances. These "video walls" were subtext backgrounds used to support the story and performance content of the original plays. Glynn and Lee shot, edited and technically ran the video cues for these video walls during theatrical performances.

 Glynn ceased freelancing in the Motion Picture industry in the middle of 1998 to pursue his Masters degree at Brooks Institute of Photography. He graduated from this program with his Masters degree in December of 2000.

 In 2002, Glynn acted with Ethan Wilcox in the Pioneer 2880 Extreme Filmmaking project Go Man Go which Jacob Strunk had written and was directing. Glynn was impressed with Ethan’s performance and in the Spring of 2003 cast him in a short film he was directing titled SUCCESS. SUCCESS is the first of nine films that Glynn plans to make for a body of work titled Ocean of Storms. Ocean of Storms will be comprised of nine short films that each deal with a different aspect of the costs of what it means to be a human being in our current culture. Glynn hired on Jacob Strunk to be the Associate Producer and Assistant Director for SUCCESS. Their work together on this project further strengthened their relationship as filmmakers and the realization that they shared a vision for what filmmaking could be.

 Glynn is currently in pre-production on the next film for Ocean of Storms titled SON which is about a father videtaping himself giving advice to his son. SON is set to shoot in the beginning of 2004.