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Tilton is a frequent collaborator with director George Milton. Their screenplay ''

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'', a darkly comic murder-mystery satirising

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therapy, was directed by Milton and features

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amongst an ensemble cast. With Milton, Tilton co-wrote the screenplay for the multi-award-winning film A Bullet Wasted, in which a young partisan is forced to choose between executing her Commander or her brother. The film was made as part of the Directors UK / ARRI Challenge Trinity scheme and was shot in a single uninterrupted take using the Arri Trinity. It was directed by George Milton and shot by Oscar and BAFTA nominated

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. The film won Best Short Film and Best Cinematography at London Independent Film Awards 2019 and Best Short Film at Edinburgh Independent Film Awards 2019. ''Infidel'', a drama focusing on the subject of

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, was awarded Best UK Short Film at the

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2009. The film is part of a triptych of shorts, ''Sins of London'', written by Tilton and directed by Milton. A graduate of the

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, Tilton wrote the

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for ''Hell for Leather'', a comic film

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composed and directed by

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. The film won numerous international awards, including the Prix Action Light at

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, and featured in the notorious

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in 1999. Tilton won the Best Actor Award at th
16th Grand Off Film Festival
in Warsaw, Poland in December 2022 for his lead role in Guillaume Doucet's film ''Better Men''. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Tilton was guitarist and singer with the

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band

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. He later joined

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as guitarist in

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. He returned to performing music in 2013, fronting his band Black Crack. He currently sings and plays guitar with experimental and improvisational rock band Nöise.

References

External links

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A Bullet Wasted official websiteSins of London official websiteTilton in Black Crack's official video for the single 'I Woke Up' on Louder Than War Records.

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1962 births Living people Alumni of the University of East Anglia English male screenwriters English punk rock guitarists {{England-stub Musicians from Blackpool