Jon Sen

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Jon Sen
Born	Jon Sen (1974-10-09) 9 October 1974 Bradford, England
Occupation	Writer/Director TV and Film
Years active	2000–present

Jon Sen is a British television and film director and writer born in Bradford in 1974.

Sen attended Bradford Grammar School between the 1984 and 1992. He read Political Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge and graduated in 1995. After training at ARTTS International in Bubwith, East Riding of Yorkshire, he became an accomplished documentary editor between 1996 and 2000, editing landmark British documentary series including Secret History, Witness and The Real...

In 2000, Sen was awarded his first BBC drama commission to write and direct The Love Doctor. His second low budget television film, a short called Reignited was made for Channel 4's Coming Up strand and met with critical success^{[citation needed]}. In 2003, BAFTA award-winning producer Catherine Wearing employed Sen to direct Channel 4's £2 million flagship drama Second Generation starring Parminder Nagra. Despite being a ratings flop, the drama was critically acclaimed^{[citation needed]}. Nagra won an EMMA for her lead performance and the programme was named in the Observer's top ten television of 2003^{[citation needed]}.

Sen continued to direct other big-budget dramas including Frances Tuesday starring Tamzin Outhwaite. Frances Tuesday was a huge and much needed success for ITV. It was the highest rated single drama of 2004 and went on to sell in over 43 countries worldwide^{[citation needed]}, cementing Outhwaite’s place as one of the most popular faces on British TV.

In May 2006, Sen completed Stan for BBC 4 about the final meeting between Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, starring Father Ted star Jim Norton.

As a writer, his work includes 4.4.68, a radio play about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (part of the Sony Award winning 1968 season), an adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel Two on A Tower and Vanunu: A Time To Be Heard a drama about the controversial interview between Mordechai Vanunu and journalist Peter Hounam.

Sen has also written for both TV and film and is an occasional contributor to newspapers and magazines, including The Independent and The Times of India.

He lives in South London.

External links

Jon Sen at the Internet Movie Database
Jon Sen Portfolio, created by Adam Jennings' company Red Box New Media
A Passage to India (Part II) Jon Sen article in The Independent 2003
Homeward Bound Interview with Jon Sen 2003
Nobody owns a nation's culture Jon Sen article The Times of India 2009

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Name	Sen, Jon
Alternative names
Short description	British film director
Date of birth	9 October 1974
Place of birth	Bradford, England
Date of death
Place of death

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