Joshua Newton

Joshua Newton is an award-winning British filmmaker. As a teenager he ran his school's film unit writing and directing several thriller and horror shorts. After studying law he worked for British movie mogul Lord Grade as Assistant to Producer Albert Fennell on the Barbara Cartland Movies of the Week Series produced at Pinewood Studios for CBS before becoming an independent writer, director and editor. He directed the late two-time Academy Award nominee Roy Scheider ("Jaws", "The French Connection", "All That Jazz") in his final movie "Justice / Vengeance", (AKA "Iron Cross") a revenge thriller he also wrote and produced that won him the Visionary Filmmaker Award at the Boston Film Festival in 2010. The picture also received one of two awards at LA's the Museum of Tolerance International Film Festival of that year. The other was given to Clint Eastwood for encouraging "tolerance, justice and human rights" through his work. Joshua spent two years extensively researching O.J.Simpson before writing his screenplay "The Framing of O.J.Simpson" which is now in pre-production.