John Dower is a Director with over 25 year’s experience in Film, Television and Video Games. He started out as an actor himself, and studied at Goldsmith's College, The Northern Film School in Leeds and the Polish National Film School in Lodz.

Since graduating, John has directed many award-winning short films which have screened at over 70 film festivals worldwide. His Television Drama credits include “Silent Witness”, "Wolfblood", "Eastenders" and "Casualty" for the BBC. 

Bringing a film maker's sensibility into video games, John has directed in Motion Capture studios in the UK and USA, working in Animation and Voice on several video games titles including the Microsoft/Lionhead "Milo & Kate" project, the James Bond video game, "007 legends" with Activision/Eurocom, "Risen 3" for Piranha Bytes, a Game yet to be announced for Take-Two Interactive and is currently Cinematics Director on new titles for Saber Interactive.

John teaches on the Digital Animation course at Filmakademie Ludwigsburg, the Games Design and Development course at the National Film School (NFTS), Acting for the screen at East 15 Acting School, Drama Studio London & ALRA and Film Making at MET Film School. His classes and workshops for The Mocap Vaults have taken him to Canada, Mexico, Sweden & USA.