Background
Born in Wrexham, North Wales on 5 May 1980, Evans grew up in Bangor, Gwynedd.
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In 1996 Evans joined the British Army, serving as a Royal Engineer and saw service in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq After leaving the armed forces Evans attended Bangor University and studied Film.
Career
He is also a former soldier. He works in the medium of both English and Welsh and produces both factual and fiction productions. Early and Pre-career He went to local schools Ysgol Cae Top and Ysgol Friars.
His headmaster at Ysgol Cae Top was John McBryde, father of former Wales international rugby union player Robin McBryde.
He was awarded a First Class Bachelor(Honours) and later received a Distinction in a Film making Master of Arts.
Although his undergraduate degree was predominately academic Evans began making short films while studying at University. His short Welsh Language film NOT was also recognised by the RTS. In 2013 he made the documentary Curtains which featured on British Broadcasting Corporation Three Fresh.
lieutenant focused on a Women"s Aid refuge, the staff and women that had escaped domestic abuse. Evans grew up watching his mother abused by his father.
The film as a result became a very personal journey.
With Curtains, I think I became as much as a participant as the women and support workers. In 2014 his short drama Jam Manitoba was nominated at the Celtic Media Festival for Best Short Drama. Evans and the film where then nominated by the Royal Television Society for Best Drama.The Welsh language drama was first broadcast on Sky Arts.
He then went on to produce and direct Cysgod Rhyfel (The Shadow of War) which was broadcast on S4C on 18 May 2014.
The film focused on soldiers with Posttraumatic stress disorder and used the talking head accounts of war veterans who had served in Northern Ireland, the Falklands War, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, along with highly stylised dramatic sequences written by Evans. During the film Maldwyn Jones, a Falklands veteran contributing to the film discussed the suicide of L/Sgt Dan Collins, who had struggled with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after serving in Afghanistan.
The film showed the video message Dan left his mother Deana who had contributed to the film. During an interview with Jason Mohammad about the film Evans stated "The sad thing is, all too often something happens and it goes too far.
Dan couldn"t cope any more and felt he needed to take his own life.
These almost cataclysmic events will raise the subject, but it"s just really sad that something like that had to happen first". After this Evans went on to direct on the S4C series Ward Plant and the British Broadcasting Corporation One series Flint Des Reserve Personal life
Evans lives on Anglesey with his family.
He has three children Annabel, Jack and Scarlet.
He also has a step-daughter, Ceri. Despite working and having written in the Welsh language he does not consider himself a fluent Welsh speaker.
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With some reflexive reverting, perhaps I provided the child"s point of view, the only view I have." Evans placed the dedication "Foreign my mum" at the end of the film.
