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James Kent is a British television and film director. He directed the feature films ''
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'' and '' The Aftermath'' and the TV dramas '' The White Queen'' and ''
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister ''The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister'' is a 2010 British biographical historical drama film about 19th-century Yorkshire landowner Anne Lister. Made for television, the film was directed by James Kent and starred Maxine Peake as Lister. Th ...
''. He has also directed many documentaries, notably ''Chopin Saved My Life'', ''9/11: Phone Calls from the Towers'' and ''Holocaust: A Music Memorial Film from Auschwitz''. He was nominated for the Breakthrough British Filmmaker award at the 2014 London Film Critics Circle Awards. Productions he has directed have been nominated for Golden Globe and Grierson awards and have won BAFTA and
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awards.List of James Kent's awards and nominations for awards.
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Early life

Kent was born and grew up in Yorkshire. He was educated at
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, a Quaker institution, and at
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.


Career

Kent's first job was as a
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local news journalist in
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. He has since directed more than 20 documentaries for the BBC. The subjects of his documentaries have included
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,
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, John Osborne,
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, Mozart and photography. His directorial break in fiction came on '' EastEnders'', helming three episodes which aired in January 2000. He later made a docudrama about
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, with
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in the lead. In an interview in 2015, he recalled, "Panned in ''The Times'', ''Elizabeth David'' got me offers from three agents and it was time to either take the plunge or say goodbye to drama." Since then his directing credits include ''
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'', ''
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'', ''The White Queen'' and the
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vehicle ''
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''. In 2014, Kent made his debut as a feature film director with ''
Testament of Youth ''Testament of Youth'' is the first instalment, covering 1900–1925, in the memoir of Vera Brittain (1893–1970). It was published in 1933. Brittain's memoir continues with ''Testament of Experience'', published in 1957, and encompassing th ...
'', an adaptation of
Vera Brittain Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, socialist and pacifist. Her best-selling 1933 memoir '' Testament of Youth'' recounted her experiences during the Fir ...
's memoir of the First World War, which starred
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and
Kit Harington Christopher Catesby Harington (born 26 December 1986) is an English actor who is widely known for his role as Jon Snow in the HBO epic fantasy television series ''Game of Thrones'' (2011–2019). After studying at the Royal Central School o ...
. His second feature film was '' The Aftermath'', which was based on
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's novel of that name and starred
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. In 2022 he directed a film of Francis Poulenc’s opera ''
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'' for the BBC and Royal Opera House. He was also lead director of the second season of '' The Capture'', the BBC's hit surveillance thriller starring Holliday Grainger.


External links

List of James Kent's awards and nominations for awards: http://www.sternwild.com/film-makers/james-kent


References

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