Brett Gregory
Directing
Biography
Raised on a council estate in Nottinghamshire throughout the 70s and 80s but based in Manchester since 2000, former lecturer in Film and Cultural Studies, Brett Gregory, has been an independent filmmaker since 2005. As well as short dramas, music videos and commercial promos, his filmography includes a trilogy of non-profit music documentary features: 'Iceland: Beyond Sigur Ros' (2010), 'Manchester: Beyond Oasis' (2012) and 'Liverpool: Beyond The Beatles' (2015). In turn, his multi-award-winning debut feature film, 'Nobody Loves You and You Don't Deserve to Exist', was released to international acclaim in 2022, and can be described as a semi-autobiographical exploration of masculinity, morality, identity, social class and storytelling in the North of England. As writer/director his short film adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic parable 'Before the Law' won Best Short Film Director at the FICIMAD Film Festival in Madrid in February 2025. His latest production is 'Autism and the Arts: Poetry with Peter Street', a 40 minute documentary which examines 76 year old Peter Street's remarkable life as a slaughterman, a gravedigger and a war poet in the north of England.
Known For
When a man without a family or a home arrives at a mysterious tower in a mysterious land to request to meet ‘The Law’, he is confronted by two of humanity’s greatest enemies: Time and the Truth.
Before The Law
A maverick British art house movie exploring solitude, sanity and suffering under The State. As a contagion befalls the UK a grieving teacher attempts to recover the tragic-comic fragments of his shattered self in Manchester.
Nobody Loves You and You Don't Deserve to Exist
A self-funded, non-profit feature documentary exploring and celebrating Liverpool's contemporary independent music scene at the beginning of the 21st century, featuring interviews with Kevin McManus (Liverpool Vision), David Pichilingi (Liverpool Sound City), Craig Pennington (Bido Lito), Paul Du Noyer (NME and Mojo Magazine), David Lloyd (Seven Streets), Peter Guy (GIT Awards and Liverpool Echo), Mike Deane (Liverpool Music Week) and David McTague (Africa Oye).
Liverpool: Beyond the Beatles
An old man remembers a girl he once knew in Manchester, England.
Manchester Gothic ‘The Slaughterhouse’
Born in 1948, Peter Street struggled at school with epilepsy and illiteracy in Bolton, Lancashire, and, later in life, as a slaughterman, a gravedigger and a war poet. At 66 years old he was then diagnosed with autism, and his world changed forever.
Autism and the Arts: Poetry with Peter Street
A self-funded, non-profit feature documentary exploring and celebrating Iceland’s contemporary independent music scene at the beginning of the 21st century. Featuring music by Ólafur Arnalds, Seabear, DJ Musician, Hafdis Huld, Berndsen, Mugison, Lara Runars, Severed Crotch and others.
Iceland: Beyond Sigur Rós
A dark, absurd morality tale about a man's desperate search for human truth in between rhyme and reason, fact and fiction, life and death.
The Atheist
A self-funded, non-profit feature documentary exploring and celebrating Manchester's contemporary independent music scene at the beginning of the 21st century.