Jack Jewers

Jack Jewers is a British film and television director and editor. Born into a theatrical family (his mother is the British actress Philippa Urquhart, and his father was the late Canadian actor Ray Jewers), both he and his sister, Rosie Jewers, were child actors. He directed his first amateur film when he was seven years old, and later studied film at university in Aberystwyth, Wales. He has worked in film and television his entire adult life.
His directorial work includes the films The Distances We Travel, Against the Dying of the Light, Storm, and Labour of Love.
He received a Royal Television Society Student award in 2001 for Labour of Love, a film he made while still a university student. He was nominated for a BAFTA Wales for Storm in 2002.
In 2006, he directed a five-part BBC Wales documentary series, Define Normal, in which people living with serious physical disabilities talked frankly about their lives.
Films in production include the feature-length independent film, Flush. According to his official website he is also working on a TV series called The Dead Letter Room and the short film, My Brother's Keeper.
He married in 2007, and lives in England with his wife, the American writer Christi Daugherty.

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