Marc Evans is a Welsh-born film director, whose credits include the films House of America, Resurrection Man and My Little Eye.[1]

Biography

Born in 1963 in Wales, He is the brother of movie producer Robert Evans. Evans studied for a History of Art degree at university before taking a one year course in film.[1]

Career

Evans worked as a runner for a commercials company in London,[1] before cutting his teeth on TV drama, starting out with Welsh-medium productions for S4C,[1] and latterly including episodes of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.

He then transferred to film, with 1997's House of America about a young Welsh immigrant to the United States who falls foul of the American dream. In 1998 came controversy with Resurrection Man, a thriller set amid sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.[2]

His first box office hit was Big Brother-inspired horror My Little Eye. In 2004 he directed Trauma starring Colin Firth and Mena Suvari, written by Richard Smith,[2] which reprised the darker elements of My Little Eye via a chilling psychologial study of amnesia and despair. His later films mark a shift from an exploration of the relationships between national identity and myth to an innovative reworking of the horror genre in the critically acclaimed My Little Eye, which tapped into the zeitgeist via its embedded critique of the extremities of reality tv and the internet.

Evans' film Snow Cake, starred Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman, was released on 8 September, 2006. His documentary, the hard hitting In Prison My Whole Life about death row inmate Mumia Abu Jamal, premiered at the 2007 London Film Festival and was selected for the Sundance festival in 2008.

Evans, in an interview at Cineworld Cinema in Cardiff, declared that he is working on a musical set in 1976 Swansea, with Catherine Zeta-Jones attached, whilst still trying to get a Dylan Thomas biopic into production.

Evans is a visiting professor at the University of Glamorgan's creative arts school ATRiuM.[3]

Personal life

Married to actress Nia Roberts, the couple are resident in Cardiff, and have a daughter Edith.[4]

Filmography

Television

Film

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Marc Evans". BBC Wales. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
  2. ^ a b "Trauma". BBC Film. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
  3. ^ "Visiting Professors". University of Glamorgan. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
  4. ^ Simpson, Rin (2009-07-19). "Having children doesn't stop you doing things". Wales Online. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
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