Neil Johnson (director)

Neil Brook Johnson (July 26, 1967) is a British film and music video producer, director, and editor best known for his long association with heavy metal band Manowar, and for directing and writing Science Fiction Films.

Early life

Born in Southampton, England he emigrated to Australia at the age of five. At the age of 20, Neil became the youngest (paid) director in Australia.^{[citation needed]}

Johnson's lengthy career includes stints as producer, director, editor, cinematographer, and production manager. Beginning his career as a camera assistant, Neil was obsessed with Science Fiction, and would spend his spare time making short films.^{[original research?]} His first 40 music videos were made for free before he started earning a living.^{[citation needed]}

Main career

To date, he has made over 500 music videos for bands like Manowar, U2 and Rhapsody of Fire.^{[citation needed]} He has directed 6 feature films. His first film, Demons In My Head (1997) is reputed to be the world's first digital film.^{[citation needed]} His second film, To Become One (2000) was produced for exactly^{[citation needed]} as proof that you do not need money to make a successful film.^{[original research?]} His third film, Battlespace (2003) was the shot in Arizona and boasted over 500 digital effects, which, at the time, was a major feat before the digital film-making explosion.^{[dubious – discuss]}

From 2005-2007, he shot an additional 20 minutes for the first 2 films, re-cut them, updated the effects, re-sized the films up to high definition and renamed the films.^{[citation needed]} Demons In My Head is now called Nephilim and To Become One is called Bipolar Armageddon.

In 2008, he made Humanity's End, a film about the last man in the universe being hunted down to extinction by a race of beings known as the Nephilim. In fact, all his films take place in the same universe and all contain Nephilim as characters dominating mankind.^{[citation needed]}

Achievements

Johnson has received numerous awards for his music video and film work^{[citation needed]}, and has even been awarded a number of Gold DVDs in Germany for his Manowar DVDs.^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• Neil Johnson at the Internet Movie Database
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