Nathan Wilkes

Nathan Wilkes (born December 10, 1995), is a Wolverhampton based filmmaker, who is most famous for directing the 2010 independent feature film, Cyborg Enemy at the age of 13.
Biography
He was born in Wordsley, Wolverhampton, and moved to Penn, Wolverhampton in 1995. He currently attends Thomas Telford School.
Film career
Since his early childhood, Nathan has always had an interest in film and filmmaking. He always had a keen interest in movies, and by Year 8 had earned the status, "The Animator" by his classmates. Not long after watching George Lucas' Star Wars, he saw Pixar's Wall-E and was inspired to make his own movies. He made 3 short films including Creature Chat and ' Fleshy Functions. At age 13 his short-films had drawn the interest of Philip Brown, a Hollywood Editor. He shared his short, Creature Chat with Fantastic Mr. Fox Animator Drew Roper. This short film is currently being displayed at the Co-Operative Film Festival and The End of the Pier International Film Festival. He is currently working on a new feature film which is an adaptation of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds.
After Cyborg Enemy
After finishing Cyborg Enemy, Wilkes started the preparations for his second feature-length film, and in 2010 completed his second feature film which was an animated version to Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.
Wilkes' latest production is the science fiction thriller War of the Worlds, which is currently sponsored by O2. Wilkes has said that the production will be finished by July 2012 and will be premiered in the West Midlands.

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