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Gareth Jones (born 9 February 1951) is a British film and television director and screenwriter, owner of independent production company Scenario Films. == Background == Gareth Jones was born in London in February 1951, son of BBC Foreign Correspondent Ivor Jones and Jane Ann Sterndale Bennett. He is the grandson of the actress Athene Seyler〔Athene Seyler on Desert Island discs 2 October 1988. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/find-a-castaway/books/gareth%2Bjones〕〔Correspondence between Athene Seyler and JC Trewin 6, 9 April 1981, p 18 re G Jones The Disinherited. http://www.reading.ac.uk/web/FILES/special-collections/trewin.pdf〕 and great-great-grandson of the composer William Sterndale Bennett. He was educated at Westminster School and St. John's College, Cambridge where he read Modern Languages. After graduation in 1973, he trained for a year at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama before joining Prospect Theatre Company, where he worked with Kenny McBain, directing Shakespeare, Brecht, Strindberg and Chekhov. He was Director of Productions at bilingual Welsh/English touring company Theatr yr Ymylon, and between 1977 and 1980 worked as a freelance theatre director for the Royal Court Theatre with Stuart Burge, and Theatr Clwyd where he directed his own plays ''My People'' (based on the short stories of Caradoc Evans) and ''Solidarity''〔The Guardian, Carol Wilks review, 30 April 1981.〕 During the 1980s he published two novels ''Lord of Misrule'' and ''Noble Savage''. After training as a television director at HTV Wales, he joined Granada Television at the invitation of producer Bill Podmore for whom he directed Coronation Street and comedy drama series Brass〔TV Times Magazine 26 February - 4 March 1983, cover story and article pp16-19〕〔Arts Guardian 15 March 1983, review by Peter Fiddick〕〔Guardian Online 24 May 2012 "Your next box set: Brass". http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/may/24/brass-your-next-box-set〕 starring Timothy West, Caroline Blakiston and Barbara Ewing, the second series of which he also produced. From 1984-7 he worked as a freelance writer/director for BBC television drama, writing drama series ''Fighting Back''〔Radio Times 2–8 August 1986, cover article pp 4-5〕〔Sunday Times review 17 August 1986, Rachel Hepburn〕 starring Hazel O'Connor and 5-part drama ''Shalom Salaam'',〔Radio Times 22–28 April 1989, article pp 10-11〕〔Sunday Times article 5 February 1989, Amit Roy〕〔Making Sense of Suburbia Through Popular Culture – Rupa Huq (Bloomsbury, 2013) p164 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MoKuVLHEMvUC&dq=shalom+salaam+bbc+1989&source=gbs_navlinks_s〕 a ground-breaking Jewish-Muslim love story starring Mamta Kaash, Toby Rolt, Ayub Khan-Din and Charlotte Cornwell, which he also directed. Other television directing credits include ''The Trial of Klaus Barbie''〔Sunday Times Review 19 July 1987, Patrick Stoddart, p 58〕〔The Guardian, Media Page, 13 July 1987, Peter Fiddick, p13〕 (1987) which was based on court transcripts and screened shortly after the verdict, ''Watch with Mother'' and ''Seeing in the Dark'' for BBC Drama, and ''Seduction – Tell Me More'' for Channel 4 for whom he also shot and co-wrote 3-part documentary ''Born of the One Father'' (Au Nom du Même Père) in 1980-1. Jones has worked as a screenwriter in Europe, where his credits include television movies such as ''Forbidden Zone'' (Verbotene Zone)〔http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt0114832/〕 and ''Not Without You'' (Nicht Ohne Dich)〔http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt0282794/〕 for German broadcaster ZDF, ''The Gift of Life'' (Un Cadeau: la Vie) for France 2, ''Joseph'', ''Mary Magdalen'', ''Thomas'' and ''Saul of Tarsus'' for Mediaset in Italy, and award-winning feature film ''Bonhoeffer - Agent of Grace'', starring Ulrich Tukur.〔http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt0250264/〕 Most recently, Jones wrote and directed two feature films ''Desire'' (2009)〔Johnian News Issue 26 October 2009: Desire - A Film by Gareth Jones starring Oscar Pearce. http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/johnian-news-issue-26〕〔17th Raindance Film Festival Nominations Best UK Feature 2009. http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/raindance-film-festival-awards-2009〕〔Screen Daily Review - Desire 3 March 2011. http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/latest-reviews/desire/5024501.article〕 and ''Delight'' (2013) starring Jeanne Balibar. Since 2007 he has run feature film development initiative ''Babylon'',〔http://www.screendaily.com/european-partners-start-new-initiative-for-minority-film-makers/4028210.article〕 aimed at promoting cultural diversity within the independent film sector in Europe, and to provide an international platform for emerging filmmakers. In 2011 he was awarded his PhD from Cambridge University〔http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2010-11/weekly/6234/6234.pdf p11〕 for his thesis ''Rites of Recuperation: Film and the Holocaust in Germany and the Balkans''. Jones lives in London with his spouse and business partner, producer and composer Fiona Howe,〔http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0397816/〕 and their two children. He has two elder children, both university academics, by an earlier marriage. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gareth Jones (director)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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