Abner Pastoll (born 12 February 1982) is a British-South African

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, and editor, born in South Africa, where his family used to own a two-screen cinema.

Background

Abner started making films at the age of 4, inspired primarily by his family's cinema, and his father's film and video equipment. He originally thought he wanted to become an actor, but soon discovered he preferred being behind the camera. He grew up in

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Career

His directorial work includes ''

A Good Woman Is Hard to Find ''A Good Woman Is Hard to Find'' is a 2019 crime thriller film directed by Abner Pastoll and written by Ronan Blaney. The film stars Sarah Bolger as a young, recently widowed mother who will go to any length to protect her children as she seeks ...

'' (2018), ''Getaway Driver'' (2017) and '' Road Games'' (2015). He is co-founder of production company February Films, which he runs with producer Junyoung Jang (co-producer of Korean film '' The Host''). In the summer of 2014, he shot the France-UK co-production '' Road Games'' (aka ''Fausse Route''), starring Andrew Simpson, Joséphine de La Baume,

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and genre legend

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. The film has been described as a 'taut Euro thriller'. It world premiered in August 2015 at FrightFest in London, and was released theatrically in the US on 4 March 2016 by

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to an overall positive reaction.

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called it "a wonderful thriller; a layered character-driven narrative with great writing and equally-great tension – a very pleasant surprise." The film currently retains an 83% Fresh position on

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. On 8 March 2017 it was announced on ''

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'' that Abner is to direct the crime-thriller ''

'' from a script by Academy Award nominee and BAFTA winner Ronan Blaney, and starring

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. Filming completed in December 2017. One of his next known though as yet untitled projects has been described as a "kick-ass, sarcastic" action-thriller set in the Arizona desert.

Filmography

References

External links

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