Stuart Urban

Stuart Urban is an award-winning British filmmaker, screenwriter and producer who was born in Newport in 1958. Stuart’s interest in filmmaking began at an extraordinary age. At thirteen he wrote and directed The Virus of War, a 16mm film that was shown at the Cannes Film Festival, making him one of the youngest filmmakers to have work presented there. After graduating with a first-class degree in Modern History from Balliol College, Oxford, Stuart embarked on a career in television and film. His breakthrough came with An Ungentlemanly Act (1992), his dramatic account of the opening of the Falklands War. The film won the BAFTA for Best Single Drama in 1993. He subsequently directed episodes of the acclaimed BBC drama Our Friends in the North, earning a second BAFTA.

His later work has included the films Preaching to the Perverted, Revelation, Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead and May I Kill U?, as well as the ITV drama The Secret, for which he was writer and executive producer and received a BAFTA nomination. From his childhood filmmaking experiments to an internationally recognised career in cinema and television, Stuart remains one of Newport’s, notable contributions to British film and television.