John Farrington(IV)
- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
John Farrington was brought up and educated in the UK before moving to
the US in 1996. In 2001 he met Jane Goodall DBE Founder of the Jane
Goodall Institute at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Inspired by this
chance meeting John travelled with his six-year old son to Kosovo to
work with ethnic Serb and Albanian children on a peace project in
Mitrovica - the 'Divided City'. In 2004, and just days after the Asian
tsunami, John travelled to Khao Lak in the centre of the disaster zone
in Thailand, and with a camera loaned to him by the BBC he documented
his efforts that led him to presenting the Royal Television Society
nominated documentary 'After the Wave'. He spent most of 2005
travelling between Khao Lak and Manchester continuing to raise funds to
directly assist those whose lives were affected by the disaster. To see
clips from the BBC documentary you can view the video above. In 2006
John founded Human First, and with a team of friends and supporters
established the UK's primary official and public observation of
International Peace Day, and made a film of it. The organisation
enabled thousands of young people to consider and voice 'what peace
means to me' by developing art workshops through its unique 'Human
First' project - the first to be awarded the coveted Inspired by London
2012 mark. Human First developed strong links with the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office, the United Nations and remarkable individuals such
as Lord Bates (who walked over 3000 miles to promote the ideals of the
Olympic Truce). Continually inspired by the work of Jane Goodall, John
has focused his experiences and recently established The Human First
Film Project which aims to enable young people to find solutions to the
age-old problems of conflict, intolerance and hate. He recently also
founded Leaky Shed Films. Please click on the links below for more
information. His first feature And She Cried was screened at the Odeon
Cinemas and he is currently developing his next film Two Souls.