Dan Weldon

Following the success of his award winning first-film 'My Macondo', Dan co-founded/co-owned the independent production company Tall Stories - producing critically acclaimed films by emerging, first time writer/directors. Films included: Andrew Kottings award winning 'Gallivant', Jasmin Dizdar's Cannes winner 'Beautiful People', and Ntshaveni Wa Luruli's Silver Bear at Berlin winning film 'The Wooden Camera'. Prior to Tall Stories Dan failed his exams, studied painting at Goldsmiths in the heady 80's; worked as production runner, 3rd AD, wardrobe driver and featured-extra in movies, music videos and commercials. He played an American Marine in Full Metal Jacket. As a writer/director Dan has written a number of commissioned and spec screenplays for Stephen Frears, Amblin Pictures, Channel Four Films, Working Title and Chris Menges; and made a short film or two, including 'Maisie's Catch' for Channel Four and the Arts Council. In 2008, he wrote and produced Nicolas Roeg's 'Puffball' starring Kelly Reilly, Miranda Richardson and Donald Sutherland. Currently (2014), Dan is writing a WW1 fantasy feature for Amerique Film in Montreal, and is exploring a radical, new platform for telling stories; he is editing a documentary poem - 'All About Everything: The State of Things in Five Uneasy Chapters' and is about to re-release his first film 'My Macondo' on DVD. Dan teaches tourettesian film making, to anyone that'll listen, at the Northern Film School in Leeds, Yorkshire.