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- Birth nameJohn Patrick Deery
- John Deery is an award-winning British director. Deery's first film, "Conspiracy of Silence," which he wrote and directed, stars Academy Award-winner Brenda Fricker ("My Left Foot"), Hugh Bonneville ("Downton Abbey") and Chris O'Dowd ("Bridesmaids").
"Conspiracy of Silence" was developed at the Sundance Screenwriters' Lab and is a well-reviewed film, winning the National Board of Review's Freedom of Expression Award.
Jeffrey Lyons of WNBC/ New York called the film "Extremely powerful and superbly acted."
John Deery won the prestigious Hartley-Merrill International Screenwriting Award and was nominated for Best Film Director at the Irish Film and Television Awards.
Deery has also directed several successful projects for British TV, and is co-creator and producer of the No. 1 children's animation series, "Underground Ernie", for BBC.
- IMDb mini biography by: S Budner
- John Deery is a Fellow of Sundance Screenwriters Lab, where he developed his screenplay of the movie, Conspiracy of Silence.
- Deery was presented with the Hartley-Merrill International Screenwriting Award at the Cannes Film festival in 2001.
- John Deery's film, Conspiracy of Silence, won the National Board of Review Freedom of Expression Award in 2004. The award was shared with Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ and Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 that year.
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