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Lee Haven Jones
Born in Wales, Lee graduated from the University of Exeter with a first-class honours degree and won the Cameron Mackintosh Foundation Scholarship to study acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
As an actor Lee has played at the National Theatre several times, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Bacchai. In 2004 he appeared in the Fringe First-winning production of The Pull of Negative Gravity at the Traverse, Edinburgh, a production which subsequently transferred to New York. He has worked with Terry Hand’s Clwyd Theatr Cymru a number of times, appearing in Night Must Fall, Memory, Arcadia, Mary Stuart and, most recently, Festen. He became a Clwyd Theatr Cymru Associate in 2009. His screen credits include Love in a Cold Climate for the BBC and Caerdydd for S4C.
In 2008 Lee trained as a director with Fiction Factory Films and has since directed S4C’s award-winning drama series, Caerdydd. His first documentary, Dad a Fi, was recently nominated for a Celtic Media Festival Award.
He is a founder member of Torri Gair, is a Board Member of Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru (the Welsh-language National Theatre Company) and is currently developing a number of drama projects for film, theatre and television.
Lee has been shortlisted by the Film Agency for Wales with the project Dust
Dust
Cai is a kid who lives in a world of Gods and Heroes. But what happens when a fallen hero enters his world – particularly when the fallen hero is his dad?
Told from the point of view of Cai – a full of beans ten-year old – DUST is an intimate portrait of a small boy’s first tentative steps on the road to becoming a man. Exploring themes of masculinity and mortality, absence and loss, it offers a glimpse of a small boy’s journey from innocence to experience, depicting the fun-loving tear-away as he collides with the disappointments and complexities of life and struggles to grasp for the first time the truth of human existence: that we are but dust.
A formally innovative film, DUST offers an impressionistic, visceral vision of life as lived by Cai - the sensory perceptions, the moods, the daydreams, the fleeting fancies, the ebb and flow of a young boy’s world.
You can contact Lee via email at leehavenjones@hotmail.com