May Miles Thomas
May Miles Thomas | |
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Born | January 1959 Glasgow, Scotland |
Occupation | Filmmaker, film director, screenwriter |
Spouse(s) | Owen Miles Thomas |
Awards | Festroia Festival Internacional de Cinema, Portugal 2004, Best Director and Best Cinematography, Solid Air |
Website | http://www.elementalfilms.co.uk/ |
May Miles Thomas is a Scottish film director, screenwriter and artist. In 2000 she made the UK's first end-to-end full-length digital film One Life Stand[1] which became a paradigm for future UK low budget filmmaking.[2]
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"One Life Stand"
The full-length film One Life Stand was shot on miniDV in black and white on a small budget.[3] It was written, directed and edited by May Miles Thomas and was favourably reviewed.[4]
It won awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Writer, and Best Performance at the BAFTA New Talent Awards and won Best Achievement in Production at the British Independent Film Awards in 2000.[5]
May Miles Thomas won the prestigious Scottish Screen Outstanding Achievement Award for the film.[2]
She was also one of the first recipients of a NESTA Fellowship for the contribution the film made to the artistic and technical development of digital cinema.[6] In 2003 Queen Elizabeth II honoured her as a Pioneer to the Life of the Nation for her services to British Cinema.[5]
Biographical details
Born in Glasgow and a graduate of Glasgow School of Art where she studied design and photography, May Miles Thomas worked as production designer, writer, editor, director of photography, producer and director.[3] Her career as a filmmaker began in the mid-1980s at BBC Television, where she made the transition from production design to directing music and arts documentaries and music videos.[7] She then moved on to writing and directing feature films. She was awarded funding for the first series of Scottish Television and British Screen's short film scheme Prime Cuts.[3] In 1995 she formed the company Elemental Films with her husband Owen Thomas.[2] The short film, "The Beauty of the Common Tool" won Best Film at the Palm Springs International Short film Festival in 1997. [3] She wrote the initial screenplay for "One Life Stand" during a film scholarship at the Nipkow Programm, Berlin in 1997.[3]
She followed up One Life Stand with a second feature film Solid Air which premièred at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2003, starring Maurice Roëves and Brian McCardie.[8] The film won Best Director and Best Cinematography at the Festroia International Film Festival, Portugal in 2004.
She won the Creative Scotland Award[9] in 2007 to create The Devil's Plantation[10] aninteractive website and multi-media project which explores the secret geometry and ancient paths of Glasgow.[1][3] The project won the Best Interactive category at the BAFTA New Talent Awards in 2010. In 2013 the project was re-worked as a feature-length film and was selected for the Glasgow Film Festival. It was nominated for the 2013 BAFTA Scotland Cineworld Audience Award.
Films
Feature films[11]
- 2000 One Life Stand
- 2003 Solid Air
- 2009 The Devil's Plantation - website version
- 2013 The Devil's Plantation - film version
Shorts & documentaries[11]
- 1997 The Beauty of the Common Tool
- 1999 Colentina (doc)
Awards
- Best Film
Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, 1997
The Beauty of the Common Tool shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination in the Short Live Action Category.
- Nipkow Fellowship
awarded by Nipkow Programm, Berlin, 1997
- Best Film, Best Director, Best Writer, Best Actress
BAFTA New Talent Awards, 2000
for One Life Stand
- Outstanding Achievement Award
Scottish Screen, 2000
for One Life Stand
- Best Achievement in Production
British Independent Film Awards, 2000
for One Life Stand
- European Finalist
Sundance Institute/NHK International Filmmakers Awards, 2001
for the feature screenplay Ringing the True
- Best Director and Best Cinematography
Festroia Festival Internacional de Cinema, Portugal, 2003
for Solid Air
- NESTA Fellowship
awarded by National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, 2000–02
- Pioneer to the Life of the Nation
May Miles Thomas honoured for her services to British Cinema
by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II, 2003
- Creative Scotland Award
Scottish Arts Council, 2007
- Best Interactive Project - The Devil's Plantation
BAFTA New Talent Awards, 2010
- Nominated for BAFTA Scotland/Cineworld Audience Award - The Devil's Plantation - film version
BAFTA Scotland Film and Television Awards, 2013
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Life's too short not to make movies.[12]
May Miles Thomas
See also
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External links
- Elemental Films website
- May Miles Thomas at the Internet Movie Database
- NESTA official website
- Article written by May Miles Thomas
- The Devil's Plantation Website
- Video of the making of One Life Stand
- Video preview of One Life Stand
- Review of One Life Stand in 'Variety'
- Interview with Shereen Nanjiani, BBC Radio Scotland
- Interview by Susan Mansfield, The Scotsman
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- Scottish women film directors
- Scottish screenwriters
- BAFTA winners (people)
- People from Glasgow
- Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art
- British women screenwriters
- 1959 births
- Living people