GarySinyor

Writer, director and producer of British comedy, from "Leon the Pig Farmer" to "Perfect Wedding Days".

Dan and Liz holding hands under the chuppah, surrounded by wedding guests
Mattias Inwood, Leah White, Holly White and Joe da Costa

"Perfect Wedding Days"

5 Weddings, no Funeral

Dan and Liz keep waking up on their wedding morning, and every attempt to get married goes spectacularly wrong. Beach, church, a Jewish wedding, eloping to London. Meanwhile the best man and the bride's sister keep ending up in bed together.

An R-rated romcom in the spirit of "Wedding Crashers", starring Mattias Inwood, Leah White, Joe da Costa and Holly White.

Written and directed by Gary Sinyor. 112 minutes. View on IMDb

Liz and Dan at a food truck with a woman in an eye patch
Moyra Brunette as Maria, with Leah White and Mattias Inwood
Liz speaking into a microphone at a beach wedding
Leah White as Liz
Dan and Simon in tuxedos at the altar
Mattias Inwood as Dan and Joe da Costa as Simon
A wedding guest holding up his phone and pointing skyward
Joe Morrow as Sean
A bearded man in glasses staring, horrified, in a cinema
Adam Rose as Doug
Liz and Julia peering round a doorway
Leah White as Liz and Holly White as Julia
Liz in a teal halter dress, grinning nervously
Leah White as Liz

Films and series

  1. Writer, director, producer2026"Perfect Wedding Days"
  2. Creator, writer, director2020"Hapless"Sitcom, two series. Also known as "The Jewish Enquirer"
  3. Writer, director2017"The Unseen"Released in the US as "Amaurosis"
  4. Writer, director2016"NotMoses"Stage play, West End
  5. Director2014"United We Fall"Improvised football comedy
  6. Director2008"In Your Dreams"With Dexter Fletcher and Linda Hamilton
  7. Executive producer2007"In the Hands of the Gods"
  8. Director2005"Bob the Butler"With Tom Green and Brooke Shields
  9. Director1999"The Bachelor"New Line Cinema
  10. Writer, director1997"Stiff Upper Lips"
  11. Writer, director1995"Solitaire for 2"
  12. Co-writer, co-director, co-producer1992"Leon the Pig Farmer"Award-winning debut

"Hapless"

A six-part sitcom created, written and directed by Gary Sinyor, and a return to the style of comedy of "Leon the Pig Farmer".

Also released as "The Jewish Enquirer", the series streamed on Netflix from November 2021. Series two was shot in 2022.

Tim Downie, Jeany Spark, Josh Howie, Mike Fenton Stevens

"The Unseen"

Released in the US as "Amaurosis". A psychological thriller, written and directed by Gary Sinyor.

Watch the video reviews on YouTube

In development

"Notmoses"

Feature comedy

The feature film of his West End play. Two babies were pulled from the Nile. One became Moses. The other was thrown back, grew up a sceptic, and has some questions about the whole Exodus thing.

"Kiplings"

Sitcom, set in Yorkshire

A British half-hour comedy. Pilot and two further episodes written.

Gary Sinyor trained at the National Film and Television School, graduating with the BAFTA-nominated short "The Unkindest Cut". His first feature, "Leon the Pig Farmer", won numerous awards and is still regarded as a defining British Jewish comedy.

After "Solitaire for 2" and "Stiff Upper Lips" he moved to the US to direct "The Bachelor" for New Line Cinema, then came home to set up Magnet Films with Sir David Frost. Since then he has made comedies, a psychological thriller, a West End play and the Netflix sitcom "Hapless".

His latest feature, the R-rated romcom "Perfect Wedding Days", screened for buyers at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2026.

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