Bill Birrell - Director

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This is the filmmaker's homepage on the web. Check back here for news and updates about Bill's projects and more!

▼ 2010 (3)
- ▼ April (2)
  - Demo Reel Online
  - Purple Heart Trailer now up
- ► March (1)

Bill splits his time between: Santa Monica, California and Bolzano, Italy.; He's an award-winning filmmaker and the founder of Sony Pictures Imageworks. His credits include: PURPLE HEART, starring William Sadler (Shawshank Redemption) and Mel Harris (30 Something). The film was an Official Selection at the ARTIVIST FILM FESTIVAL and Nominated for a PRISM AWARD. Bill’s directorial debut, NO SALIDA, won the National Council on Crime and Delinquency’s PASS award. The short film was an Academy Awards® Finalist. From 1991 to 1996 Bill was Senior Vice President & Co-G. M. of SONY PICTURES IMAGEWORKS (SPI). As SPI's Executive Producer from 1993 until 1995, Bill supervised the practical aspects of over 40 visual effects projects (SPEED, IN THE LINE OF FIRE, WOLF, JOHNNY MNEMONIC, MY LIFE), 15 title sequences and a variety of multi-media projects. Bill served as Chairman of the Valley Community Clinic from 1999 until 2002. VCC is one of the leading health care providers to the uninsured in the San Fernando Valley. He was selected for the American Film Institute’s Education and Training Advisory Board. Bill, with Italian and American citizenship, is an ultra- marathon cyclist, was born in New York in 1961.

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