Talent Guide

Morna Ciraki

  • Discipline:Director, Writer
  • Program Year:Directing Lab 2013

Bio

Morna Ciraki began her directing career in music videos that include One of These Days for Japanese pop star Seiko Matsuda, featuring Quincy Jones and shot by Academy Award winner Janusz Kaminski. She has worked as a producer and production executive for former Universal Studios President and producer Thom Mount (Natural Born Killers, Bull Durham). She has developed screenplays for directors Stephen Frears and Oliver Stone, and produced a feature film Have Dreams, Will Travel starring AnnaSophia Robb, Val Kilmer and Heather Graham. Ciraki served as the London based production executive for Reliant Pictures on Stephen Frears?s Cheri starring Michele Pfeiffer and Kathy Bates.

Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Ciraki has the distinction of obtaining two law degrees on two continents (one from the University of Zagreb in Croatia and one from Pepperdine University), and serving as part of a criminal defense team at the International War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague. Most recently, Ciraki wrote and directed a short film Grace Paine: The Bombay Beach Incident. She has co-written with Mark Wheaton (Friday the 13th, The Messengers) the Euro-centric political thriller Panthers. Ciraki is working on her feature debut, a teen horror/thriller Sunday Billy Sunday, written by Wheaton, adapted from his Amazon bestseller. Ciraki lives in Los Angeles.

Current Project

Sunday Billy Sunday

Logline

In an unholy collision of religious fervor and psycho-pathology, Father Billy Acosta, desperate to talk to God, sets out to kill 99 teen campers in East Texas, hoping to spark Divine Intervention.