FILM-MAKERS STARS OF TOMORROW From left Mustapha Kseibati,
William McGregor, Jamie Stone and David Leon
to “crack it by Christmas,” he says. In development with Between The Eyes, it is a teen horror comedy, but if you want to know more about Kseibati’s sensibil- ity, look no further than the fact his all- time favourite film is Back To The Future. “I love films that have a sense of fun,
action and adventure but with a dra- matic core,” he says. “I’m passionate about films that have positive messages for kids, but not in a way that’s rammed down their throats.” Kseibati’s second short film, Skate-
boards And Spandex (backed by B3 Media and the now-defunct UK Film Council), is being developed with the BBC and Little Comet as a family com- edy in the vein of Malcolm In The Mid- dle. His first short was called Big Tingz, also with B3, and his third and most recent, Painkiller, was made with B3 and the BBC Writersroom. Kseibati, who suffered severe asthma
as a child, estimates he spent “10 hours a day watching TV in my bed for 10 years. I’m very receptive to that sense of the magic of movies.” He has been selected for this year’s
Creative Skillset-backed Guiding Lights scheme, where he will be mentored by Paul Andrew Williams.
Contact Amanda Davis and Sam Greenwood, Curtis Brown +44 (0) 20 7393 4484
amanda@curtisbrown.co.uk
WILLIAM McGREGOR Writer-director Talented young director William McGregor started out brandishing a camera on the farm in rural Norfolk where he grew up, making a film about piglets at the age of 16. By 19, he had completed fantasy
short Who’s Afraid Of The Watersprite? in his second year at the University for the Creative Arts. The Cambridge Inter- national Student Film Festival later renamed itself the Watersprite Film Festival in its honour. “I was naive, to an extent,” McGregor
recalls. “We went out to Slovenia and shot this ambitious fairy tale. In a way I’m trying to get back to that now.” Still only 24 and working full-time at
The Mill shooting commercials, McGregor is readying his first feature, The Rising, with producer Hilary Bevan Jones, which is backed by the BFI. Set in Industrial Revolution-era Wales, the
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