Gareth Evans

Gareth Huw Evans (born April 6, 1980) is a Welsh film director, screenwriter, editor, and action choreographer. He is best known for the Indonesian action crime films Merantau (2009), The Raid (2011), and The Raid 2 (2014), and for bringing the Indonesian martial art of pencak silat into world cinema through these films.  He is also known for co-creating, co-writing, co-directing, and executive producing the Sky Atlantic/AMC action crime drama television series Gangs of London(2020–present) alongside Matt Flannery, based on the 2006 video game of the same name. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gareth Evans (filmmaker), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Merantau

In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community's young men that will see him leave the comforts of his idyllic farming village and make a name for himself in the bustling city of Jakarta.

Release Date2009-08-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Porn Den Videographer

Vote Count222

The Art of Action

International action star Scott Adkins talks with some of the world's most renowned names in the action and martial arts film industry to discover what it takes to make good action movies and how to film fights.

Release Date2020-06-28

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong over the decades, transformed Western action cinema and inspired the birth of cultural movements such as blaxploitation, hip hop music, parkour and Wakaliwood cinema.

Release Date2019-08-14

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count55

Havoc

When a drug heist swerves lethally out of control, a jaded cop fights his way through a corrupt city's criminal underworld to save a politician's son.

Release Date2025-04-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count892

Gangs of London

When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between the intricate web of gangs operating on the streets of the city. Now it’s up to the grieving, volatile and impulsive Sean Wallace to restore control and find those responsible for killing his father.

Release Date2020-04-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Vote Count604

The Raid 2

After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goes undercover, joining a powerful Indonesian crime syndicate to protect his family and uncover corrupt members of his own force.

Release Date2014-03-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2425

The Raid

Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the run-down apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence, an elite swat team is tasked with raiding the safe house in order to take down the notorious drug lord that runs it. But when a chance encounter with a spotter blows their cover and news of their assault reaches the drug lord, the building's lights are cut and all the exits blocked. Stranded on the sixth floor with no way out, the unit must fight their way through the city's worst to survive their mission. Starring Indonesian martial arts sensation Iko Uwais.

Release Date2012-03-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3596

Apostle

In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.

Release Date2018-09-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1470

V/H/S/2

Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.

Release Date2013-06-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1096

Killers

A psychotic executive triggers a journalist's dark side, and they begin to form a strange bond through the internet.

Release Date2014-02-01

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count113

Footsteps

A young man called Andrew is forced to endure a bitter encounter with a man known as the Cameraman, who enjoys filming beatings, murders and rapes in an abandoned underpass.

Release Date2006-06-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count11

The Banished

Grace finds herself lost, injured and alone in the wilderness whilst looking for her missing brother. Soon her only hope is another hiker who is communicating with her via her radio – however, suspicions start to grow about their true identity. As the darkness grows ever more menacing and a threatening presence begins to consume Grace, who can she really trust?

Release Date2025-07-18

DepartmentSound

JobProduction Sound Mixer

Pre Vis Action

In a time of civil war, a young warrior is given the task of delivering a treaty between two rival lords. During her journey through the woods however, she finds herself hunted by two assassins intent on intercepting her message of peace in a bid to maintain the fear, instability and violent rule of their leader.

Release Date2016-01-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count25

Blister

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Feral Generation

In 2004, a Home Office survey revealed that there are 20 to 60 youngsters,aged 16 to 24,living rough in each inner city in the UK. They are responsible for vast levels of crime and in almost all cases they have come from broken homes and a history of abuse,both physical and sexual,most of the time inflicted on them by their own parents. Nikki,18,fled a sexually abusive homelife and a succession of foster families to live on the street. There she met Vincent,21,the product of heroin addicted parents. Together they spend their days trying to survive the perils of living rough and supporting their own drug addictions. They are wild,unwanted and trying to live without fear.They are the lost children of modern day society. They are The Feral Generation.

Release Date2007-12-14

DepartmentCrew

JobSpecial Effects Assistant

A Colt Is My Passport

A hitman and his driver go on the run after assassinating a mob boss.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

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