Alan G Parker started out life in the music business as a press officer who spent a whole lot of time on the road with ‘his’ bands, a move to London from his native Blackburn, Lancashire (home of the 4000 Holes!) in the early Nineties saw him working with the award-winning press team at Judy Totton Publicity.
Two years later he was spotted by EMI Records, at a time when they were arguably the biggest label on planet earth! He enjoyed over 12 years in the catalogue department working with some huge acts, while also holding down his own column with the lads' magazines and finding the time to write 16 books! He says the days were longer back then!!
Parker left EMI in 2007 with a plan to enter the film world as a researcher, the dream did become a reality but not for long, his talent for telling a good story was spotted by a number of people in the industry and he directed his first full length documentary later that same year.
Fifteen movies and six EMMY nominations later he’d be the first to tell you he should have tried it sooner, as he told Empire magazine in 2008; “I joined the film world with no formal training whatsoever last year, at the tender age of 42, then suddenly I had a great agent, you really couldn’t make it up! Being a film Director was never on my list of things to do, but now it’s all I can think about!”
Probably best known for the films ‘Monty Python: Almost The Truth’ (Eagle Entertainment), ‘Hello Quo’ (Anchor Bay Pictures), ‘Who Killed Nancy’ (Soda Pictures), ‘It Was Fifty Years Ago Today’ (Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment) and his most recent offering ‘Borrowed Time’ (Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment) he is delighted to be joining Babs Productions and to focus on the future…
Upon finishing his Aero Engineering degree at Loughborough University in 2021, Kieran decided to follow a contrasting path writing his own films. After two years of preparation he felt ready to begin my first project, already having his second and even third in mind too.
Kieran’s first project, titled ‘Bateman’, serves as a prequel to the 2000 film ‘American Psycho’. We follow the characters we already know through the trials and tribulations of their first year at Harvard University.
His second project, titled ‘The Flavian Dynasty’, follows a semi-fictional plot exploring a multitude of thought provoking contemporary themes, set in the ruthless and relentless world of Ancient Rome.
Kieran’s third project is currently still in its developmental stages. It will be a thrilling ride delving deep into the appetite of addiction and its wider implications for both users and others, exposing the trail of destruction often left in the wake of action through ignorance.