PJ Liguori | |
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Liguori in 2015
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Born | December 11, 1990 |
Nationality | British |
Other names | KickThePj Peej PJ |
Years active | 2007–present |
Notable work |
Oscar's Hotel for Fantastical Creatures The Forever Train Colour Bandits Hair And Brimstone |
Awards | Virgin Media Award for, "PJ, Tiny Planet Explorer." |
PJ Liguori is a British video blogger and filmmaker. His most notable work is the comedy fantasy web series Oscar's Hotel for Fantastical Creatures. In July 2016, his main channel, KickThePJ on YouTube, reached 1 million subscribers.
Liguori was born in Peterborough, England on 11 December 1990. He went to the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey, England, and graduated in 2013. He became a British citizen on 29 March 2015. He specialises in short films that usually have some degree of psychedelia, space, or fantasy embedded in them. His contributions to his short films most often consist of the multi-talents of writing screenplay, directing, songwriting, creating props, acting, producing, editing, sound, costume, and soundtrack.
In late 2014, Liguori partnered with New Form Digital to create a 10 minute short film pilot entitled Oscar's Hotel. The film follows a young man named Oliver who goes to visit his uncle's hotel, which turns out to host unusual guests: monsters. A particular monster suddenly wreaks havoc in the hotel, and Oliver—amongst newfound friends—conquer the beast. Liguori announced in April 2015 that Oscar's Hotel would be funded and picked up as a six-episode web series by Vimeo, entitled Oscar's Hotel for Fantastical Creatures. The series was produced by New Form Digital and The Jim Henson Company. The first episode of the web series aired on Vimeo on 15 September 2015, and one episode aired per week over the course of six weeks.