rhys marc jones
writer / director
Rhys Marc Jones is an award-winning Welsh-Irish filmmaker who received his MFA in writing and directing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts as a three-time BAFTA scholarship recipient. His three student shorts have each played film festivals worldwide and his latest short Father of the Bride will premiere in competition at SXSW Film Festival before being broadcast on BBC in summer 2020. He is developing his first feature film Black Church Bay through the iFeatures scheme, supported by BFI, BBC Films and Creative England, alongside the Festival de Cannes Cinéfondation Residence.
AWARDS/HIGHLIGHTS
Festival de Cannes - Cinefondation Residence 2020
BFI Flare / BAFTA LGBT Mentorship Scheme 2019
BFI Film Fund /BBC Films / Creative England iFeatures Scheme 2019
Clive Davis Award for Excellence in Film in Music 2019
NYU Tisch Graduate Filmmaking MFA
writing and directing 2018
BAFTA Los Angeles Mark Piggott Scholarship 2018 - 2019
NISI MASA European Short Pitch Program, 2018
BAFTA New York Scholar: BBC America
Diversity Scholar 2016 -2017
BAFTA Los Angeles Scholar 2017 - 2018
Tisch School of the Arts Department Scholarship 2016 - 2017
Maurice-Kanbar Scholarship 2014 - 2015