John Dower is an award-winning Director working in Film, Games and Television.  He has directed over 80 episodes of TV drama; his films have won awards and appeared at over 70 film festivals worldwide and he is currently working on games for Rockstar and Saber Interactive.  He was co-founder of The Mocap Vaults, the world’s premier Performance capture School for Actors, Animators and Directors and co-wrote “Performing for Motion Capture” for Methuen Drama. 

In 2016, John was shocked to discover that his Trevelyan ancestors had received compensation for 1,004 enslaved people on six plantations on the island of Grenada at the abolition of slavery in 1834.  He was clear that apologising was the only was to make the family accountable for their ancestors’ crimes against humanity.  He helped convene the family letter of apology to the people of Grenada which he read out with his cousin Laura Trevelyan at a packed reparations meeting in St Georges, Grenada in early 2023.  He is a Trustee of the Trevelyan Grenada Education Charity and was a co-founder of www.heirsofslavery.org which aims to support other descendants of enslavers to come forward to get involved in reparatory justice.  His reparations campaign work is ongoing.