11 Facts About Kieran Evans

Kieran John Evans was born on 8 February 1969 and is a Welsh film director and screenwriter whose work includes music videos, film and documentaries.

Kieran Evans later studied art in Carmarthen and Newport before moving to London.

Kieran Evans continued to work within the music industry and became a regular collaborator for Heavenly Films, a sister project of British record label Heavenly Recordings.

In 2002, while working for Heavenly Films, Kieran Evans collaborated with Paul Kelly on the film Finisterre, a documentary based on modern London that accompanied the album by the same name by the British indie band Saint Etienne.

In 2008 Kieran Evans released From Here to Before, a portrait of British folk singer Vashti Bunyan, which was nominated for the 2008 Grierson Award.

Kieran Evans followed this the following year when he, along with Matt Askem, filmed Bestival 2009.

Griffiths sent him a copy of his novel Kelly + Victor and Kieran Evans was inspired to turn it into a feature.

Griffiths allowed Kieran Evans free rein to adapt the script, which he changed from a dual story told separately from the perspective of the two protagonists to a more traditional merged narrative.

Kieran Evans won the award in this category at the 2014 BAFTAs.

Kieran Evans continued working with the music industry, and the year after releasing Kelly + Victor he directed a documentary for Welsh alternative rock band the Manic Street Preachers entitled Culture, Alienation, Boredom and Despair.

In 2014, Kieran Evans reunited with Paul Kelly for Heavenly Films, co-directing the Dexys documentary Nowhere Is Home, shot during the final nights of Dexys' residency at the Duke of York's Theatre in London.