Background
Evans was born and raised in Hirwaun, Cynon Valley.
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Education
He graduated from the University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales) with an Master of Arts in screenwriting, and made his living by helping people learn Welsh over the Internet.
Career
He is best known for bringing the Indonesian martial art pencak silat into world cinema through his films Merantau, The Raid, and The Raid 2. After directing a small-budget film called Footsteps, Evans was hired as a freelance director for a documentary about the Indonesian martial art pencak silat. He became fascinated with it, and discovered Indonesian martial artist Iko Uwais, who was working as a deliveryman for a phone company.
Evans cast Uwais in his 2009 film Merantau, which became a cult hit.
He planned to produce a larger action film, but scaled the production budget down and created an action film called The Raid: Redemption (2011). After the success of The Raid, the larger action film eventually became the basis for its sequel, The Raid 2: Berandal (2014).
Since January 2015, Evans has started pre-production work on a gangster film titled Blister according to his Twitter page.
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