Rowan Joffe

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Rowan Joffe (* 1973 ) is a British screenwriter and film director .

Life

Joffe first appeared as a screenwriter in 2000 when he was involved in the script for The Last Resort , which he co-wrote with director Paweł Pawlikowski . The two were nominated for the British Independent Film Award for this production , and they also received the Best New British Feature award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival . The following year he was involved in a short film and a television film called Gas Attack . For the latter, he received a nomination for the BAFTA TV Award, as well as an award for Best New British Feature at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2001 .

In 2007, Joffe made his debut as a director with the production of the television film Secret Life . At the same time he wrote the script. In the same year he was involved as the author of the horror film 28 Weeks Later . In 2008, the drama The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall followed, his second film as a director, for which he received a BAFTA TV Award in 2009.

In 2010 Joffe wrote the script for the film The American . The literary model by Martin Booth serves as the basis . In the same year he made his third film with Brighton Rock . 2014 came about with Ich. May. Not. Sleep. his film adaptation of the literary model of the same name by Steve Watson . The series Tin Star , which he invented and which he also directed once, has been broadcast since 2017 .

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SURNAME Joffe, Rowan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1973