Andrew Jones (filmmaker)
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Andrew Jones (born in Swansea on October 6, 1983) is a British screenwriter and director.
In 2004 had his first script, a horror film entitled 'Stray Dogs', optioned for a small fee by a US production company. Set up the South Wales based production company Steel & Glass Films Ltd with the proceeds in 2005. Under that banner he then wrote and directed his first feature film Teenage Wasteland,a low budget docu-drama focusing on contemporary teenagers and their dysfunctional families. He wrote the script in three days and then worked as a painter and decorator to raise the meagre £1,500 budget for the film,which was shot on a borrowed digital video camera and featured non-acting teenagers in a lot of the roles (many of which were cast by the director straight from the streets of Swansea). In 2006,the film premiered at the Swansea Bay Film Festival where it won the award for Best Feature Under 75 Minutes.
During this period Jones also spent time with homeless people and heroin addicts in his hometown of Swansea researching his second feature film. Many of the stories relayed to him during that time later appeared in the screenplay for what became 'The Feral Generation',a gritty urban drama focusing on two young lovers as they live rough on the streets of Swansea and attempt to support their heroin addiction as well as each other. Jones immediately recruited british actors Brooke Kinsella and Ray Panthaki to the project in the leading roles,having been a long time admirer of both. With Panthaki also on board as a producer the film attracted a £500,000 budget and went into production in late 2006. The film debuts at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2007.
In early 2007 Jones founded Masterplan Film Productions Ltd with fellow writer and director Keri Collins. The company`s first project will be a £2.5 million remake of the 1979 cult classic The Driller Killer which Jones will again direct from his own script.
