Vadim Jean is an award-winning English

English people

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 film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

, producer

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A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

, and executive producer

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After graduating with a degree

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 in History

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 from Warwick University, he found work on Mike Figgis

Mike Figgis

Michael "Mike" Figgis is an English film director, writer, and composer.-Personal life:Figgis was born in Carlisle, England and grew up in Africa. Figgis for several years had a relationship with the actress Saffron Burrows and cast her in several films...

' Stormy Monday

Stormy Monday

Stormy Monday is the 1988 feature film debut of director Mike Figgis. Starring Sean Bean, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting and Melanie Griffith, it is an atmospheric, noirish thriller. The notable jazz soundtrack is also by Figgis. Being set in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, the film is something of an homage...

, before establishing his own production company in 1989 covering a wide variety of subjects, from sport to corporate videos.

He first came to public attention as a director when Leon the Pig Farmer

Leon the Pig Farmer

Leon the Pig Farmer is a 1993 comedy about a Jewish estate agent in London who discovers that thanks to an artificial insemination mishap, his real father owns a pig farm in Yorkshire...

, won him the FIPRESCI International Critics' Prize at the 1992 Venice Film Festival

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, the Best Newcomer award from the London Critics' Circle, the Most Promising Newcomer at the Evening Standard British Film Awards

Evening Standard British Film Awards

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, and the Chaplin Award for the best first feature from the Edinburgh International Film Festival

Edinburgh International Film Festival

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He repeated his critical success in 1999 when One More Kiss

One More Kiss (film)

One More Kiss is a romantic Scottish drama directed by award-winning film maker Vadim Jean and starring Valerie Edmond, Gerard Butler and James Cosmo in the main roles...

won the Audience Award at the Atlantic Film Festival

Atlantic Film Festival

The Atlantic Film Festival is an international film festival held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.Held annually, the ten-day celebration of film and video from Atlantic Canada and around the world is committed to screening an inspiring and engaging collection of films and videos from Canada and the...

, and was nominated for Best Film at the Emden International Film Festival.

His Hollywood debut was Jiminy Glick in Lalawood Glick in Lalawood starring Martin Short as his celebrity interviewing alter-ego, produced by Gold Circle films. The film also features Steve Martin and Kurt Russell as themselves. It was selected as the closing gala at the 2004 Toronto film festival.

Most recently he directed In the Land of the Free... a feature documentary narrated by Samuel L Jackson. It tells the story of three men known as the Angola 3 who among them have spent over a century in solitary confinement in the Louisiana State penitentiary. It was nominated best documentary at the 2011 London Evening Standard British Film Awards.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role
1993	Leon the Pig Farmer Leon the Pig Farmer Leon the Pig Farmer is a 1993 comedy about a Jewish estate agent in London who discovers that thanks to an artificial insemination mishap, his real father owns a pig farm in Yorkshire...	Director, producer
1994	Beyond Bedlam	Producer, writer
1995	Clockwork Mice Clockwork Mice Clockwork Mice is a 1995 British drama film directed by Vadim Jean and starring Ian Hart, Catherine Russell and James Bolam.-Cast:* Ian Hart ... Steve* Catherine Russell ... Polly* Rúaidhrí Conroy ... Conrad* Art Malik ... Laney...	Director
1998	The Real Howard Spitz The Real Howard Spitz -Plot:Howard Spitz is the author behind a string of poorly selling detective novels. He discovers that in contrast children's books enjoy strong sales. Believing it an easy way to make money, Spitz becomes a children's author with his new book character, a bovine detective named "Crafty Cow", but...	Director
1999	Just Desserts (TV)	Director
1999	One More Kiss One More Kiss (film) One More Kiss is a romantic Scottish drama directed by award-winning film maker Vadim Jean and starring Valerie Edmond, Gerard Butler and James Cosmo in the main roles...	Producer, director
2003	The Virgin of Liverpool	Producer
2004	Working the Thames (TV)	Director
2004	Jiminy Glick in Lalawood Jiminy Glick in Lalawood Jiminy Glick in Lalawood is a 2004 comedy film. It stars Martin Short as Jiminy Glick, a movie critic who is involved in a murder case at the Toronto International Film Festival.-Storyline:...	Director
2006	Scenes of a Sexual Nature Scenes of a Sexual Nature Scenes of a Sexual Nature is a 2006 British comedy-drama film directed by Ed Blum. It stars Ewan McGregor, among others.-Plot:The film is mostly based on a series of seven loosely related stories of couples on Hampstead Heath in north London, featuring an ensemble cast...	Executive producer
2006	Internal	Executive producer
2006	Terry Pratchett's Hogfather (TV)	Director, writer
2007	Oliviero Rising Oliviero Rising -Plot:A man in a mining town in the United States has a problem with priapism and goes to Italy to deal with it and his sick uncle.-Principal cast:...	Writer
2008	The Colour of Magic The Colour of Magic (TV film) The Colour of Magic is a two-part television adaptation of the bestselling novels The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett. The fantasy film was produced for Sky One by The Mob, a small British studio, starring David Jason, Sean Astin, Tim Curry and Christopher Lee as the... (TV)	Director, writer
2010	In the Land of the Free...	Producer, director
2010	Terry Pratchett's Going Postal Terry Pratchett's Going Postal Terry Pratchett's Going Postal is a two-part television adaptation of the book of the same name by Terry Pratchett, adapted by Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle and produced by The Mob, which was first broadcast on Sky1, and in high definition on Sky1 HD, at the end of May 2010.It is the third in a...	Executive producer
2010	Burns	Director

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