John O'Hagan

Director based in Prague. John O'Hagan was born in Dublin, Ireland. Attended Brown University and New York University. Studied and worked under Todd Haynes, Spike Lee, David Byrne. His first short film, Five Spot Jewel, won several Best Short film festival awards. His first feature-length documentary, Wonderland, premiered at Sundance, received a DGA Best Documentary nomination, won five Best Documentary film festival awards, and was purchased by HBO. John began directing television commercials with Hungry Man Productions in New York. His first spot, Dial-A-Mattress, won Gold at the Cannes Lions festival. John has since won numerous industry awards including more Gold Lions, Gold Pencils, a Grand Clio, an Emmy nomination, and has directed international campaigns for Microsoft, Mercedes, Land Rover, Volkswagen, Anheuser-Busch, Heineken, Smirnoff, Visa, Adidas, Samsung, Coca-Cola. His work is well known for both humor and strong visual storytelling.