George Hughes(XI)
- Director
- Cinematographer
- Editor
George Hughes grew up in Wimborne, Dorset, England, UK, where he
attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School. Leaving at sixteen, he
started working for a landscaping firm. After stints as a courier for a
haulage company, a machinist and a barman he went into teaching. In
2003 he co- founded Freefall Productions and Freefall Records with
Michael Shemilt and shot his first
documentary film,
Volitera Live (2004). After making
several more documentaries for Freefall Records bands he directed his
first short, The Mover (2005) and his
first non-documentary feature,
Remnants (2007). In 2013, he moved to
London and concentrated on screen- writing for several years before returning to the south coast and independent filmmaking in 2020. His brother is the
guitarist Sam Hughes.