Bio
“He has an amazing talent to spot the essence of a story and is relentless in working his way to the core of it.”
— Elisabet Ronaldsdóttir - Editor known for John Wick, Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, The Fall Guy.”
Harold Monfils is a multi-disciplinary director and producer, with a career of international exposure working in advertising and long format. He began his career in Mexico, serving coffee at an international advertising agency at the age of 17. Through the years his love for travel has led him to shoots in over 20 countries, and 5 continents, working with a diverse range of cultures and people.
Specialising in people, stories, and the spectacularly beautiful, he has crafted films ranging from 5 seconds to 100 minutes, gaining international recognition and a wallpaper of awards for his advertising and film work.
He directed award-winning feature documentary ‘Laya Project’, a visual musical journey through the 2004 Asian tsunami-affected countries. Screened as official selection at more than 20 film festivals, winning four from Australia to Zanzibar. The film was distributed worldwide on the National Geographic Channel.
Monfils is the director, producer, writer and director of photography under the alias Harvey Morpheus, for internationally acclaimed film ‘A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey’. This real-life story documents the extraordinary adventures of British conflict photographer Jason P. Howe. Available on demand.
He is in development on:
‘There Must Be Some Kind of Way Outta Here’ which stars Tim Page. It was as though life itself was an extended plot or in hindsight some cartoon driven adventure flick. It’s going to be a hell of a trip. The drug-lucid ‘descending into madness’ war photographer played by Dennis Hopper in Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Apocolypse Now’. was inspired by Tim Page. ‘Cowboys & Indians’ THIS IS NO ORDINARY WESTERN. Cowboys and Indians is a contemporary, feature-length, fish-out-of-water, romantic comedy adventure about an Australian cowboy who sets out to make the world’s greatest ever Western. Think Crocodile Dundee meets Shanghai Noon at The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. A Ditchater Pictures production.
Monfils resides in New Zealand, drinks coffee, loves great food, rides motorbikes, walks his dogs and enjoys a sunrise and sunset equally..
