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Harry Lighton
British film director and screenwriter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Harry Lighton (born 20 October 1992) is an English film director and screenwriter, whose feature directorial debut Pillion premiered in 2025.[1]
Originally from Portsmouth, Hampshire, he began making short films while studying literature at the University of Oxford.[2] His most noted short film, Wren Boys (2017), received a British Academy Film Award nomination for Best Short Film at the 71st British Academy Film Awards,[3] and a British Independent Film Award nomination for Best British Short Film at the British Independent Film Awards 2017.[4]
Pillion premiered in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival,[5] where Lighton won the award for Best Screenplay in the program.[6]
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Filmography
- Knitlab: XY - 2016
- Sunday Morning Coming Down - 2016
- Look at Me - 2017
- Wren Boys - 2017
- Leash - 2018
- Pompeii - 2019
- Pillion - 2025
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External links
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