Make was a media production studio formed in Belfast Northern Ireland in 2003 by Hugh McGrory and generative artist Glenn Marshall. Make mixed film, animation, music and design while exploring the blurring boundaries between these disciplines. Make was commissioned by Panasonic Japan and Guinness for commercials, BBC NI, IFB and NI Screen for short films, BBC and C4 for soundtracks, Peter Gabriel and Ninja Tune Records for music promos and secured a place on the prestigious Jumpstart program with Adobe. We tried to question the tools we were given, seeing digital technology as it was and still is - at a very early stage of development.

Commissioned by the Irish Film Board in 2003 as part of their ShortShorts series, Maze is a 3 minute film shot on Super-8 on a wind-up clockwork Russian military camera and directed by Hugh McGrory. The film is an experimental and haunting epitaph to the now empty Long Kesh prison outside Belfast, scene of the 1981 Hunger Strikes.

Commissioned by Northern Ireland Screen in 1998 as part of their Premiere short film series, The Rules Of Golf is shot on 35mm anamorphic film and directed by Hugh McGrory. Synopsis: The Rules of Golf is about the ‘code of the street’ and the story centres on an adolescent boy trying to live within that code. X-rays of broken Joy-riders' bones show that speed kills or at best breaks bones.

Winner - Belfast Arts Award, Film And TV Category, 2000

Hugh's first professional film, produced by Paul Largan in 1996. Getting Close is shot on 16mm film, written and directed by Hugh McGrory and starring Eva Birthistle. Synopsis: It's been two weeks now of watching and waiting and Jane can't get Phillip out of her head. She doesn't like to think of herself as a home-wrecker but she's getting close to him.

Winner: Best Short Film (Joint), Foyle Film Festival, 1996