Marc Evans

Born: Cardiff, Wales, UK

The writer and director first attracted attention with the Belfast-set thriller Ressurection Man with Stuart Townshend.

He capitalised on his newfound fame with the excellent webcam chiller My Little Eye, which was shot totally on digital video.

Educated at Cambridge and Bristol universities, Evans wrote and directed his first short film in 1984.

Johnny Be Good, a bilingual drama in English and Welsh, told the story of the arrival of the first jukebox in rural Wales.

He went on to work in television, most notably the children's fairytale East of the Moon (by Monty Python's Terry Jones) and the first ever Welsh language science fiction comedy Arthur's Departure.

In 1997, his feature debut House of America, starring British actors Siân Phillips and Matthew Rhys, won acclaim at the Sundance Festival.

He also collaborated with the rock group The Manic Street Preachers in the documentary Libraries Gave Us Power and also collaborated with John Cale.

Resurrection Man deal with sectarian violence in Northern Ireland and My Little Eye remade the country house murder mystery for the internet age.

Evans was on less firm ground with the generally disappointing British psychological thriller Trauma with Colin Firth.