Bio

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, the film was distributed worldwide on the National Geographic Channel.

Monfils was director, producer, writer and under the alias Harvey Morpheus as director of photography, for his 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 on www.watch.hokaheymovie.com and on Amazon Prime, Neon & iTunes depending region.

He is in development on his next film ‘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.

Monfils resides in New Zealand, drinks coffee, loves great food, rides motorbikes, walks his dogs and enjoys a sunrise and sunset equally..