Award-winning Senior Producer / Director / Videographer Nathan Theys was granted a bursary to study at the London Film Academy. He continued to study at the Northern Film + Media Open Horizon and was mentored by Director Menhaj Huda (Kidulthood, Flash and Batwoman) and BAFTA Award winner Amy Coop. Nathan went onto create content videos and com... Read More

Award-winning Senior Producer / Director / Videographer Nathan Theys was granted a bursary to study at the London Film Academy. He continued to study at the Northern Film + Media Open Horizon and was mentored by Director Menhaj Huda (Kidulthood, Flash and Batwoman) and BAFTA Award winner Amy Coop. Nathan went onto create content videos and commercials for high-end agencies and companies. He recently produced JAMIE OLIVER'S YOUTUBE SERIES and worked with agencies such as MCCANN WORLD GROUP(LONDON), NET-A-PORTER, OUTNET, HELLO MAGAZINE, Ogylvy, Mullenlowe, Hogarth Sea Containers, Spring Studios, MTV International, EMI records, Sony BMG and Century Media UK, LOreal, Mastercard, Just Eat and others. He is also a videographer and directed talent such as Jamie Oliver, BAFTA Award Winner BIG ZUU, Dame Helen Mirren, Jordan Henderson, Alviro Morata and others. Nathan was also selected to be a judge for the CANNES LIONS EUROBEST Awards.https://www.baca.bg/en/eurobest-announces-its-2023-jury-members/ For his long form narrative works Nathan won the ‘script competition’ at the Cape Town International Film and Market Festival, for his feature script 'Ronald' and got awarded NFVF development funding. This true story is based on his father’s courage to have become one of the first professional opera singers of colour to have sung professionally during the apartheid regime in South Africa. Nathan got shortlisted at the Cannes Directors Fortnight Talent and the NFVF Black filmmakers fund for his feature 'My Shadow Laughed’. He went onto win awards and get nominations for his short narrative films in the festivals worldwide directing the likes of British icon, Sir Donald Sinden in 'Blowing Dandelions', Tom Prichard 'The Windsors' and Niamh James in 'Whispers of Smoke'. His abstract film ‘See how they run’ was officially selected at the Paris Silhouette Film Festival. His children’s drama iFuture My Future got nominated at the International Children's Film festival for best director. Three of his children’s dramas were selected as the Official Anti-bullying films in the UK associated with the Anti-bullying Alliance and the National Children’s Bureau getting programmed in over 18 Picture House Cinemas across the UK. Nathan got selected by the Directors UK and Producers Guild UK as a director talent for the Stage & Screen Film London initiative. Nathan is currently working with different agencies and on his first feature film Ronald a story about his father who was one of the first persons of colour to have sung opera during the apartheid era. Read Less