Rowan Joffe is an award winning writer and director, whose directorial debut, Secret Life, was hailed as ‘a masterpiece' by critics at both The Times and The Guardian newspapers.

His second directing project, The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall, won Rowan a BAFTA Award for Best Fiction Director 2009, as well as a host of award nominations, including nominations for Best Single Drama at both the BAFTAs and the RTS Awards.

In 2010, Rowan completed a feature adaptation of Graham Greene's classic novel Brighton Rock, for Optimum Films.

FILM

BRIGHTON ROCK: Adaptation of Graham Greene's classic novel for Optimum Releasing / Canal Plus, written and directed by Rowan and starring Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Helen Mirren and John Hurt (2010).

A VERY PRIVATE GENTLEMAN: Feature adaptation of the novel by Martin Booth for Lava Films / Focus Features, directed by Anton Corbjin and starring George Clooney (2009).

WAR REPORTING FOR COWARDS: Feature for Blueprint Films/Film 4. Produced by Graham Broadbent (2007).

TALE OF TWO SISTERS: Feature for DreamWorks. Produced by Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald (2007).        

INTO THE SILENT LAND: Feature for Scott Rudin Productions (2006-07).

GOSHAWK SQUADRON: Feature for Samuel Goldwyn Productions .

28 WEEKS LATER: Sequel to the smash hit film 28 Days Later for  DNA Films / Fox Searchlight, directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and starring Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Catherine McCormack (2007).

"My heart was pounding every foot of the way." Philip French, The Observer

VELVET ELVIS: Feature produced by Joel Cohen & Alec Socolow.

DR FAUSTUS: Feature for Dani Lukic Films.

LAST RESORT: Television drama / feature for BBC Films. Written with and directed by Paul Pawlikowski (2000). Winner of South Bank Show Best Film of the Year Award 2002; nominated for BAFTA Alexander Korda Award for the Outstanding British Film of the Year 2001; nominated for Best Screenplay, British Independent Film Awards 2001; winner of Carl Foreman Award for Most Promising Newcomer to British Film (Pawlikowski) 2001; winner of Michael Powell Award, Best New British Feature, Edinburgh (2000).

TELEVISION

THE SHOOTING OF THOMAS HURNDALL: Written by Simon Block and directed by Rowan for Talkback Thames / Channel 4. The true story of one family's fight for justice after their son Tom was shot dead on the Gaza strip by a member for the Israeli Defence Force while working there as a photojournalism student aligned to the Peace Corps. Starring Stephen Dillane and Kerry Fox (2008).

Winner of Best Director (Fiction) at the BAFTA Craft Awards 2009; Nominated for Best Television Drama at the South Bank Show Awards 2009; nominated for Best Single Drama at the RTS Awards 2009; nominated for Best Single Drama at the BAFTAs 2009; ; nominated for Best Television Drama at the Amnesty International Media Awards 2009; winner of four Golden Nymphs at the Monte Carlo Television Festival 2009, including Best Television Drama and Outstanding Director; nominated for the Grierson Award 2009 for Best Drama Documentary.

"It may not be sentimental, or sensational, but hell, it's moving....Beautifully observed, beautifully written, beautifully performed. And brave." Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

"A powerful tale, told with thoroughness and dignity." The Mirror

"Tight and convincing, with exemplary performances (above all by Stephen Dillane, quite brilliant as Tom's lawyer father Anthony)...Television can sometimes be a little self-consciously worthy when it tackles this kind of subject, but here it did the Hurndall family proud" Brian Viner, The Independent

SECRET LIFE: Writer and director of the television drama starring Matthew MacFadyen for Channel 4 / Kudos Productions. A paedophile comes to the end of his jail sentence and struggles not to fall into old patterns as he tries to re-integrate into normal society (2007).

"A fearful kind of masterpiece." David Chater, The Times

"More uncomfortable than anything I've seen on television - it leaves you knotted-up inside and tense. And angry....This is serious, strong television." Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

"Excruciating but powerful." The Times

BROADWATER FARM: Television drama for BBC.

TURKISH DELIGHT: Afternoon play for BBC1. Produced by Mal Young, Carson Black and Serena Cullen (2003). Winner of the Royal Television Society Best Drama Award 2003.

GAS ATTACK: 90' television drama for Channel 4 / Hart Ryan. Produced by David Hart (2001). Nominated for BAFTA Best New Writer 2002.; nominated for Best Single Drama at the Broadcast Awards 2002;  winner of Michael Powell Award, for Best New British Feature  at the Edinburgh Festival 2001.

INFILTRATORS: Television serial for United / Granada Television. Produced by Michelle Buck and Derek Wax.

STATIC, CODE AND FEED: Television drama for BBC. Co-written with Alex Garland; produced by Liza Marshall.

THEATRE

FAITHFUL DEALING: RSC / Soho Theatre.

THE HISTORY OF MISFORTUNE: Produced by Andrea Cornwall and shown at the C Venue, Edinburgh Film Festival.

ACCIDENTAL COLOUR; EMPORIUM; OUT OF THE MOUTHS: Three plays written for the Cameron Mackintosh Foundation and produced at the Old Fire Station Theatre in Oxford.              .