Harry Lighton

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Harry Lighton (born 20 October 1992) is an English film director and screenwriter, whose feature directorial debut Pillion premiered in 2025. [1]

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Originally from Portsmouth, Hampshire, he began making short films while studying literature at the University of Oxford. [2] His most noted short film, Wren Boys (2017), received a British Academy Film Award nomination for Best Short Film at the 71st British Academy Film Awards, [3] and a British Independent Film Award nomination for Best British Short Film at the British Independent Film Awards 2017. [4]

Pillion premiered in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, [5] where Lighton won the award for Best Screenplay in the program. [6]

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