Tim Hewitt

Tim was directing films when he was about 8 years old. He didn’t have a camera, script or actors. Just concepts. He drove his parents crazy at the dinner table acting out scenes, forcing his parents to play roles, choreographing action sequences with his brother and his friends on their bikes. He blames his parents for this passion, allowing him to become obsessed with the films of Howard Hawkes and John Huston, Laurence Olivier, Eastwood, Coppola, Scorsese, Kubrick, on and on and on. He knew the power of the cinema; he knew how it could make you feel. Then, at 17 years old, he bought a ticket to a film on London’s Shaftesbury Avenue. This film finally confirmed Tim’s desire to be a director, and if possible to write his own stories. The film was Reservoir Dogs. Tim knew cinema was powerful but he didn’t realise how much freedom you could have with it, how visceral it could be and how much it could truly inspire you.

From that day, Tim dabbled in writing scripts. Most of them he’d rather forget, but even by his Reservoir Dogs viewing there was already a script he wanted to write and knew one day he would direct the film. The story was A Little Place Off The Edgware Road by Graham Greene. The story was read to his class at the age of thirteen, and now (twenty-two years later) he has managed to finally assemble a crew to make it happen. It is a short film that is intended to bridge the gap between Tim’s first film as a director (the self-penned low-budget feature The Devil’s Punch Bowl – www.thedevilspunchbowlmovie.com) and Tim’s next feature film, for which he hopes he will have a named cast.