Johnny Kelly

Johnny Kelly was born in Ireland. He trained in graphic design at Dublin Institute of Technology before moving to animation.

Johnny studied at The Royal College of Art where he completed an MA in Animation and was awarded the Conran Foundation Award by the Provost, Sir Terence Conran. His graduation short film, Procrastination, received global attention and won him the Jerwood Moving Image Prize 08 and the Best Animation, NYC Shorts 08 award.

He was selected to be part of the Saatchi & Saatchi New Director Showcase and was also awarded Best New Director at the 2007 Shark Awards in Kinsale.

He joined Nexus Productions in 2007 and has directed both music videos and commercials including spots for Adobe, UN, BMW, Bacardi and Google. 

He was recently the winner of a First Boards Award.