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Director and Breakthrough Talent – Jezza Neumann has stayed resolutely low-profile, happy to remain in the shadow of his mentor and boss, Brian Woods, at True Vision. It probably also helps him pursue his challenging assignments – undercover filming the plight of children in harsh conditions becoming a mission for him. In the past two years, he’s opened British viewers’ eyes to child welfare in Zimbabwe, Palestine and Gaza, and his latest project, Kashmir’s Torture Trail, airs this week. He’s also taken a look closer to home with the universally acclaimed Poor Kids and helped to get spin- off Poor Kids USA off the ground.
90 minutes fly by. He brought a similar sense of class to ITV1’s Monroe and has recently been snapped up by the US to direct episodes of NBC’s Smash and ABC’s Scandal.
The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher 8 Ben Palmer The Inbetweeners Movie Kashmir’s Torture Trail
Not many TV directors are capable of breaking new records when they venture into feature films for the first time. But The Inbetweeners Movie was no ordinary film – opening the school comedy out for an Ibiza holiday, it was a phenom- enon that transcended its small- screen roots to enjoy the biggest opening weekend of any British movie, and similar success on DVD. Ben Palmer took over as director for series two of the E4 show, just as its trajectory went skyward, having cut his teeth on Star Stories and Bo Selecta. He moved into artier territory for Channel 4 pilot Milton Jones’ House Of Rooms, with a stylish, heightened style redolent of French movie Amelie. Next up: Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong’s new comedy, Bad Sugar.
7 Paul McGuigan Sherlock
Bringing the kinetic swagger of his feature films Gangster No 1 and Lucky Number Slevin, Paul McGuigan immediately stamped a cinematic imprint upon Sher- lock, ensuring audiences would be hooked from the start. His audacious additions, which could come off as over-the-top and hyperactive in lesser hands, included on-screen text messages and fast-cut sequences of Sher- lock clocking clues at lightning speed. In his hands, Sherlock’s
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influences for the deeply unset- tling Silent Singer. Lipsey’s gift for blurring the everyday and the surreal were again in evidence, superbly bringing out the horror elements of Pemberton and Shearsmith’s scripts. On a simi- larly offbeat note, Lipsey also helmed Sky Atlantic’s This Is Jinsy, whose parade of grotesques shared some of the DNA of the League Of Gentlemen’s creations. Both projects played to his strengths, creating whole new macabre worlds from everyday settings. After helming episode one of Sky 1’s Starlings, Lipsey is now attached to The Bromley Boys, a lower-league football comedy set in 1969.
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Psychoville, This Is Jinsy
For series two of Psychoville, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith wisely retained the services of Matt Lipsey, who added Chris Cunningham’s Aphex Twin videos to his well of
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After breaking through as a director with Doctor Who and Merlin, James Hawes has quickly become a go-to guy for classy drama. Fanny Hill and then, most significantly, Enid showed that he could deliver engaging drama on a BBC4 budget with huge atten- tion to detail and such cinematic flair that Enid could gain a second life on BBC1, which was also home to his Christmas treat, The 39 Steps. Since then, he’s worked on DCI Banks: Aftermath for ITV1 and overseen the slick second series of Sky 1’s Mad Dogs, and 19th-century true- life crime tale The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher.
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