Jonathan Entwistle, MA Filmmaking 2009 graduate, has been selected as one of Screen International's Stars of Tomorrow. Article below..
Screen International 6 July 2010
Introducing the UK actors, film-makers, writers and animators who are shaping up as the hottest prospects in the business and whose stars are most likely to be on the rise in the coming year
Welcome to Screen’s annual UK Stars of Tomorrow, a glimpse of the hot talent which will dominate UK and international film over the next few decades.
The feature, which selects the most exciting names about to break each year, has been running for seven years. Each year, Screen contributing editor Patricia Dobson works painstakingly over the course of several months to curate the selection, watching shorts, reading scripts and consulting with agents, producers, casting directors and development executives over the new names likely to break out.
Dobson is no pushover and, despite aggressive pitching, works to achieve the most balanced snapshot of promising talent during each year including both obvious and less obvious future stars.
Her success rate is impressive, and previous Stars of Tomorrow include James McAvoy, Robert Pattinson, Emily Blunt, Carey Mulligan, Andrea Arnold, Rupert Friend, Dev Patel, Aaron Johnson, Gemma Arterton, Rebecca Hall and many others. Last year’s talent included Luke Evans, already on a steep ascent after roles in Clash Of The Titans, Robin Hood and Tamara Drewe, and Olivier award winner Aneurin Barnard. It’s no wonder that Hollywood agents, managers and casting directors clamour to get their copy each year.
Enjoy discovering this year’s selection of talent; we wish them a glittering future.
Mike Goodridge, Editor
Jonathan Entwistle
Writer-director, UK Stars Of Tomorrow 2010
“My greatest passion is working with actors,” says Jonathan Entwistle. All his films have developed from improvisation exercises and he has collaborated with top UK TV actors including Andrew Knott, Linzey Cocker and Jack Deam. Cotton Stones, his graduation film from the London Film School, is the tale of two brothers living on the edge of bleak Lancashire moors who get into trouble with the local hard man. The no-budget short The Good North, completed earlier this year, is a look at racism in a depressed northern town and will screen at the London Film Festival. He recently wrapped the short Mulligatawny, backed by the UKFC and Film London and starring Ruth Sheen. The Manchester-based director, who detoured into film while studying at Chelsea College of Art and Design, is now working on a short with actor Maxine Peake and his feature debut, likely to be set among vulnerable communities in the north.