Carter Ferguson : Fight Director : Scotland : UK

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Fightdirector.com is here to provide independent information on fight direction for production companies, fight directors, choreographers, fencers, actors, directors, producers, AD's and the general public. It is also the personal website of Carter Ferguson, a professional, non-affiliated fight director, based in Scotland. Carter has 14 years experience working as a professional FD on over 400 productions. Below: Carter directs an action scene from his upcoming feature, Fast Romance.

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER 2009

I'm completing a few small fight jobs on this season of River City but things are slowing down as 2009 comes to a close and I am available for work. The perils of being a freelancer mean that search never ends despite having completed 32 productions this year alone! Get in touch if you would like to discuss a future project!

PLEASE NOTE THAT I AM ALWAYS KEEN TO BUILD NEW RELATIONSHIPS WITH POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS.

I AM VERY EXPERIENCED IN ALL AREAS OF DRAMATIC COMBAT INCLUDING CGI INTEGRATION AND BLUE SCREEN WORK.

As you can see it's not all been romantic comedy for me in 2009, although certainly my life has revolved around the direction of my first feature film "Fast Romance". If you would like to know more about the films I've been making, including Fast Romance then click on the ICKLEFLIX link above. You can see stills to the right of this column and above from the making of the film. Why not join as a fan on our FACEBOOK page?

DIARY

Above: A CAT in Fast Romance. Tired of working with actors I have now turned to animals to listen to my direction... Take my advice never attempt to direct cows, they are rubbish actors. This cat however...

How do folks. This is the diary section for those of you that have never been on the site before. It's about all I have time to write up these days, but if you've any requests or suggestions for the site just drop me an email. I'll take this opportiunity to mention that I am not an armourer but a fight director. If you have need of an armourer go to the links section.

I've been back out on Dani's house recently working with my friends Dawn Franklin and Paul Macnamara and again with the excellent director Graeme Harper of Doctor Who fame. Dani's House is a Children's BBC programme I've been working on intermitantly, with a great and funny cast and a real nice feel to it.

I'm back on River City fights again tomorrow where I've been working closely again with some great cast members - Frank Gallagher and Chris Brazier. These guys are great professional people who embue a nice atmosphere, and the same can be said of so many of the crew in there. I've been working with many directors that I get on well with and we've been creating good stuff - despite the shows pre-watershed time slot!

Recent theatre slots have seen me back out with the Citizen's Theatre Glasgow on Top Dog UnderDog and Othello (Othello with the outstanding actor Andrew Clarke) and on The House Of Bernarda Alba with the Scottish National Theatre.

Earlier in the year I was working on working on Black Camel's latest feature, Legacy. Idris Elba and Clark Peters from THE WIRE - a programme I love as you can see from my links to the left - were totally charming and totally briliant, in fact many of the actors were. Anyway look out for that one as it's going to be worth a watch.

Below: Idris Elba in Black Camel's latest film Legacy.