Elliott Lester (London) started out directing music videos and television commercials, for which he won several prestigious awards including a Cannes Lion. He debuted in 2006 with his drama Love Is the Drug (which premiered at Slamdance) about a group of high-school graduates who experiment with anything and everything. His next film was the action thriller Blitz (2011), starring Jason Statham as a hard-nosed British copper who teams up with an unpopular colleague in search of a cop-killer. In 2014, Lester worked on the television series "Chop Shop."
50. MFF Karlovy Vary
