Owain Astles
Director
Director,
3rd Assistant Director,
1st Assistant Director.
Great Britain, British Isles
About Me:
Website:
owainastles.com
Where I work: I am an individual working from home
Technical Skills: COVID production trained, DBS cleared, MovieMagic Scheduling, Final Draft, Adobe Creative Suite (incl. Premiere Pro, After Effects, Davinci Resolve, Microsoft Office, Fluent in Spanish & Catalan
Training:
2020 - 2021
ScreenSkills, Intermediate COVID-19 Awareness
2020 - 2021
BFI NETWORK x BAFTA Crew, BAFTA Crew 2020/21
My Work and Credits:
Sleeping Rough (2017)
About:
Sleeping Rough is a community-based film about street homelessness in the UK. Using real interviews conducted with members of the homeless community all around the country, the film is a docudrama that follows three characters, looking at the circumstances that force each of them to sleep on the street. Sleeping Rough is also an exercise in participatory storytelling, featuring actors with lived experience of homelessness.
Produced in collaboration with Cardboard Citizens and The Big Issue Foundation
Produced in collaboration with Cardboard Citizens and The Big Issue Foundation
Fun stuff:
Films I wish I had made:
Starred Up, If Beale Street Could Talk, American Honey, I Daniel Blake
I cried watching:
The Hate U Give
I left the cinema during:
Batman v Superman
Directors I love:
Barry Jenkins, Andrea Arnold, Ava DuVernay, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Salomon Ligthelm, Lulu Wang, Christopher Nolan, David Mackenzie
Actors I admire:
Brian Tyree Henry, Saoirse Ronan, Shia LaBeouf, Hayley Squires, Jharrel Jerome
Writers I Respect:
Paul Laverty, Ava DuVernay, Barry Jenkins, Jonathan Asser, Drake Doremus
My desert island discs:
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations, Dave - Psychodrama, Kano - Hoodies All Summer, Queen - Greatest Hits
Books I have given my friends:
The Hate U Give, The Fire Next Time, Stories of Your Life
My death row meal:
Cheesy Pasta Bake
The best thing I own:
Pentax K1000 35mm camera