Gary Sinyor

After graduating from Cambridge University in 1983, he worked in Manchester as an assistant producer for 18 months and was subsequently offered a place at the National Film and Television School in 1985. He wrote and produced his graduation film, The Unkindest Cut, which was nominated for Best Short Film at BAFTA in 1989 and won the Golden Plaque at the Chicago Film Festival. Soon after The Unkindest Cut was broadcast on BBC2, Eric Idle commissioned him and Michael Normand to write and produce Leon the Pig Farmer which he co-directed with Vadim Jean. Gary wrote an directed the romantic comedy Solitaire For 2 follow by period drama spoof Stiff Upper Lips befoe being bright in to direct The Bachelor. He served on the BAFTA Best Short Film Committee in 1990 and on the Edinburgh Festival Steering Committee the same year.