Marc Evans

Marc Evans
Born	1960 (age 50–51) Cardiff, Wales
Occupation	Film director, producer, screenwriter
Years active	1987 – present
Spouse	Nia Roberts

Marc Evans (born 1963) is a Welsh-born film director, whose credits include the films House of America, Resurrection Man and My Little Eye.^[1]

Biography

Evans was born in 1963 in Carmarthen, Wales. He studied for a history of art degree at the University of Cambridge, and then took a year out before taking a one-year course in film at the University of Bristol, where his contemporaries included Michael Winterbottom.^[1][2]

Career

Evans worked as a runner for a commercials company in London,^[1] before beginning directing on TV dramas, 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.^[3]

His first box office hit was the Big Brother-inspired horror film My Little Eye. In 2004 he directed Trauma starring Colin Firth, Mena Suvari and Brenda Fricker, written by Richard Smith,^[3] which reprised the darker elements of My Little Eye via a chilling psychological 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 television and the internet.

Evans's 2006 film Snow Cake starred Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman. His documentary 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 Film 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, which then changed to become Minnie Driver. The film, Hunky Dory, is currently in Post-Production and is due out in Spring/Summer 2011. The films also stars West End Actor of Spring Awakening Aneurin Barnard.

Evans is a visiting professor at the University of Glamorgan's creative arts school ATRiuM.^[4]

Personal life

Married to actress Nia Roberts, the couple are resident in Cardiff, and have a daughter, Edith.^[5]

Filmography

Television

• 1987 East of the Moon
• 1988 Leters from Patagonia
• 1990 The Gift (co-d.)
• 1991 Friday on My Mind
• 1992 Thicker than Water
• 1994 Master of the Moor; Silent Village (doc)
• 1995 Arthur's Departure; Bliss
• 2009 Collision

Film

• 1996 House of America
• 1997 Resurrection Man
• 2000 Beautiful Mistake
• 2002 My Little Eye
• 2004 Trauma
• 2006 Snow Cake
• 2007 In Prison My Whole Life
• 2010 Patagonia

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Marc Evans". BBC Wales. http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/marc-evans/. Retrieved 2009-09-21. 
2. ^ Hill, Claire (2004-01-17). "Dark Marc". The Western Mail. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/content_objectid=13826351_method=full_siteid=50082_headline=-Dark-Marc-name_page.html. Retrieved 2009-09-21. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "Trauma". BBC Film. http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2004/08/11/marc_evans_trauma_interview.shtml. Retrieved 2009-09-21. 
4. ^ "Visiting Professors". University of Glamorgan. http://cci.glam.ac.uk/visitingprofessors/. Retrieved 2009-09-21. ^{[dead link]}
5. ^ Simpson, Rin (2009-07-19). "Having children doesn’t stop you doing things". Wales Online. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/showbiz-and-lifestyle/television-in-wales/2009/06/19/having-children-doesn-t-stop-you-doing-things-91466-23923244/. Retrieved 2009-09-21. 

External links

• Marc Evans at the Internet Movie Database
• Bio at BBC Wales Art

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Name	Evans, Marc
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Date of birth	1963
Place of birth	Cardiff, Wales
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