May Miles Thomas
| May Miles Thomas | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 1959 Glasgow, Scotland |
| Occupation | Filmmaker, film director, screenwriter |
| Spouse(s) | Owen Miles Thomas |
| Awards |
BAFTA New Talent Award for best film, BAFTA New Talent Award for best director, BAFTA New Talent Award for best writer 2000 One Life Stand Festroia Festival Internacional de Cinema, Portugal 2004, Best Director and Best Cinematography, Solid Air |
| Website | http://www.elementalfilms.co.uk/ |
BAFTA New Talent Award for best film, BAFTA New Talent Award for best director, BAFTA New Talent Award for best writer 2000 One Life Stand
May Miles Thomas is a Scottish film director, screenwriter and artist. In 2000 she made the UK's first end-to-end full-length digital film One Life Stand which became a paradigm for future UK low budget filmmaking.
The full-length film One Life Stand was shot on miniDV in black and white on a small budget. It was written, directed and edited by May Miles Thomas and was favourably reviewed.
It won awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Writer, and Best Performance at the BAFTA New Talent Awards and won Best Achievement in Production at the British Independent Film Awards in 2000.
May Miles Thomas won the prestigious Scottish Screen Outstanding Achievement Award for the film.
She was also one of the first recipients of a NESTA Fellowship for the contribution the film made to the artistic and technical development of digital cinema. In 2003 Queen Elizabeth II honoured her as a Pioneer to the Life of the Nation for her services to British Cinema.
Born in Glasgow and a graduate of Glasgow School of Art where she studied design and photography, May Miles Thomas worked as production designer, writer, editor, director of photography, producer and director. Her career as a filmmaker began in the mid-1980s at BBC Television, where she made the transition from production design to directing music and arts documentaries and music videos. She then moved on to writing and directing feature films. She was awarded funding for the first series of Scottish Television and British Screen's short film scheme Prime Cuts. In 1995 she formed the company Elemental Films with her husband Owen Thomas. The short film, "The Beauty of the Common Tool" won Best Film at the Palm Springs International Short film Festival in 1997. She wrote the initial screenplay for "One Life Stand" during a film scholarship at the Nipkow Programm, Berlin in 1997.
She followed up One Life Stand with a second feature film Solid Air which premièred at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2003, starring Maurice Roëves and Brian McCardie. The film won Best Director and Best Cinematography at the Festroia International Film Festival, Portugal in 2004.
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