Kieran Evans
Kieran Evans says a project about the Manic Street Preachers could be in the pipeline for him.
Evans triumphed at the Baftas last weekend as he scooped the award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for his film Kelly + Victor.
While Kelly & Victor may have been a project that took nine years to bring to the big screen, Evans is already looking ahead with a sting of possible films in the pipeline.
Speaking at his post-win Bafta press conference, the director said: “I hope people will take notice. I hope that I can knock on a few doors and the door will open, rather than remaining shut. There are a couple of projects that we are moving forward on, and I am hoping that we will be able to develop them.
“We have an adaptation of a fantastic John Burnside book called A Summer of Drowning. Also, a biopic about Johnny Owen, a fantastic Welsh boxer.
“Then maybe something about the Manic Street Preachers; a fiction film. I cannot say more than that.”
Evans kicked off his career in television and documentaries, but has made the transition into live action feature film with Kelly + Victor; a film he wrote as well as directed.
Kelly + Victor played at the 2012 BFI London Film Festival, before finally hitting the big screen in September of last year.
Evans saw off tough competition in his Bafta category as Colin Carberry and Glenn Patterson (Good Vibrations), Kelly Marcel (Saving Mr Banks), Paul Wright and Polly Stokes (For Those In Peril) and Scott Graham (Shell) were all also nominated.