DAVID EVANS
Director
Film & Television
2017
PREACHER (Series 2)
Directing one episode of series for Amazon
Developed for TV by Sam Catlin, Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen
A SONG OF GOOD AND EVIL In Development
Director and Executive Producer
Feature documentary in development with Oxford Film and TV
Based on a live stage production by Philippe Sands
2016
ANNE
Directed one episode of drama series for Netflix
Written by Moira Walley-Beckett based on classic novel Anne of Green Gables
Produced by Miranda de Pencier’s Northwood Entertainment
2016
I’M DYING UP HERE
Directed one episode of new comedy drama series for Showtime
Written and created by Dave Flebotte
Executive producers: Jim Carrey, Michael Aguilar and Christina Wayne for Endemol Shine Studios and
Assembly Entertainment
Starring Melissa Leo
2015
DOWNTON ABBEY (Series 6)
Directed the two final episodes for Carnival Films / ITV1
Writer: Julian Fellowes, Producer: Chris Croucher
MY NAZI LEGACY
Director and Executive Producer, feature documentary
Writer: Philippe Sands
Wildgaze Films / BBC Storyville
Released theatrically by Altitude in the UK and Oscilloscope in the US (as WHAT OUR FATHERS
DID: A NAZI LEGACY)
World Premiere at the TriBeCa Film Festival 2015
Selected to screen in the Debate category at the BFI London Film Festival 2015
Winner, The Avner Shalev – Yad Vashem Chairman’s Award for Holocaust-Related Films,
Jerusalem Film Festival 2015
Nominated for Best Documentary, London Evening Standard British Film Awards 2015
Nominated for the Political Film Award, Hamburg Film Festival 2015
Nominated for Best Documentary at the Stockholm Film Festival 2015
2014
CUCUMBER
Lead director of new 8 x 60 min series for Red Production Company / Channel 4
Writer: Russell T Davies, Producer: Matt Strevens
Starring: Vincent Franklin, Cyril Nri, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Freddie Fox
THE CRIMSON FIELD
Lead director, 2 episodes for BBC1
Writer: Sarah Phelps, Producer: Annie Tricklebank
Starring: Oona Chaplin and Hermione Norris
2013
DOWNTON ABBEY (Series 4)
Lead director, 2 episodes for Carnival Films / ITV1
Writer: Julian Fellowes, Producer: Liz Trubridge
Nominated, Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, Primetime Emmy Awards 2014
2012
DOWNTON ABBEY (Series 3)
Director, 2 episodes for Carnival Films / ITV1, including series finale
Writer: Julian Fellowes, Producer: Liz Trubridge
ONE NIGHT
Director, 4 x 60 min series for BBC1
Writer: Paul Smith, Producer: Ewan Marshall
Starring: Douglas Hodge and Jessica Hynes
Winner, Reflet d’Or for Best TV Series, Festival Tous Ecrans 2012
2011
SILK
Director, 2 x 60 min episodes of new BBC drama series
Writer: Peter Moffat, Starring: Maxine Peake & Rupert Penry-Jones
WHITECHAPEL 2
Director, 3 x 60 min series for Carnival Films / ITV1
2009
SURVIVORS
Director, 2 x 60 min episodes of BBC drama series
2008
UNFORGIVEN
Director, 3 x 60 min serial
Red Productions / ITV1
Writer: Sally Wainwright, Producer: Karen Lewis
Starring: Suranne Jones, Peter Davison, Jemma Redgrave, Douglas Hodge, Siobhan Finneran, Matthew
McNulty, Will Mellor & George Costigan
Winner, Best Drama Serial, Royal Television Society Awards 2009
Nominated, Best Drama Series or Serial, Broadcast Awards 2010
Nominated, Best Drama Serial, BAFTA Television Awards 2010
THE CHILDREN
Director, 3 x 60 min serial
Tightrope Pictures / ITV
Writer: Lucy Gannon, Producer: Tim Whitby
Starring: Kevin Whately, Geraldine Somerville, Lesley Sharp, Kate Ashfield, Ian Puleston-Davies, Anna
Madeley, Owen Teale
Nominated, ‘Best Drama’, South Bank Show Awards 2009
Official Selection, ‘Top Ten’ Best International Television, Cologne Film & TV Festival 2009
2007
ROBIN HOOD
Director, 2 episodes
Tiger Aspect / BBC
Written by Dominic Minghella
2006/7 THE ROBBER BRIDE
Director, 2 hour TV film
Produced by Working Title TV / Shaftesbury Films for Sky / ITV / Oxygen
Adapted from Margaret Atwood’s novel by Tassie Cameron
Starring: Mary-Louise Parker, Shawn Doyle, Wendy Crewson, Susan Lynch,
Amanda Root & Greg Bryk
Nominated for five awards including Best Television Movie, Gemini Awards 2007
Nominated (Mary Louise Parker), Best Actress in a Mini Series or Movie, Primetime Emmys 2007
2005/6 MYSTERIOUS CREATURES
Director, Single Drama for Leopard Films / ITV
Producer: Jake Lushington, Writer: Gwyneth Hughes
Starring Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn and Rebekah Staton
Mill Valley Film Festival 2006
Nashville Film Festival 2007
Winner, Best Single & Serial Drama, Mental Health Media Awards 2007
2005
WILD AT HEART
Lead director (episodes 1, 2 and 3) of new 6 x 60 min drama
Company / ITV, shot in South Africa
Written by Ashley Pharoah
2004/5 SHAMELESS
Lead director, Series 2 (episodes 1, 7 and 8)
Company / ITV, created by Paul Abbott
2003
REVERSALS
Single Comedy Drama for Box TV / ITV
Producer: Jake Lushington, Writer: Tim Loane
Starring Marc Warren and Sarah Parish
2001/2 MANCHILD (Series 1 & 2)
Series director, 10 x 30 min comedy for BBC2
Writer: Nick Fisher
1997
OUR BOY
Single drama for Wall to Wall / BBC Screen One
Writer: Tony Grounds, starring: Ray Winstone and Pauline Quirke
Winner: Best International Television Movie Munich Festival 1998
Nominated: Golden Hitchcock Award, Dinard Festival 1997
THE GRAND
Granada, written by Russell T. Davies
1996
FEVER PITCH
Feature film for Wildgaze Productions / Channel 4 Films
Based on Nick Hornby’s bestselling book, starring Colin Firth, Ruth Gemmell & Mark Strong
1995/6 BAND OF GOLD
Two episodes of second series for Granada
Starring Geraldine James, Barbara Dixon and Cathy Tyson
1994
COMMON AS MUCK
3 x 60 min episodes for BBC
Writer: Billy Ivory, starring: Edward Woodward, Tim Healy, Roy Hudd, Saeed Jaffrey
Nominated, ‘Best Drama Series’, BAFTA Television Awards 1995
1990
A DROWNING SILENCE
Memento Mori film for BBC 10 x 10
Winner of Australian Film Festival
Documentaries
1993-5 BIG SCIENCE
Series 1, BBC2 / Wall to Wall
The Science of Desire
Artificial Life In Sante Fe
Mozart and Intelligence
1992/3 THE LATE SHOW
BBC2
1989/92 OMNIBUS
Producer & Director: Andrea Dworkin: Against Pornography
ANGELA CARTER’S CURIOUS ROOM
Assistant producer
Winner BAFTA Huw Weldon Award for Best Arts Documentary