Dan Clifton is an award-winning film-maker, writer and journalist, with a love for gripping stories and bringing them alive on the screen through first-class story-telling and powerful, moving images.

Recent work includes short film The Calculus of Love starring Keith Allen, a mathematical thriller written by Dan which has won several awards at international festivals and been screened all over the world. He also directed recent drama-documentaries Escape from Turkey and Human Body: Pushing the Limits, which was nominated for a Primetime Emmy and RTS award for Excellence in Visual Effects. His C4 film about Tory spin doctor Amanda Platell, telling the inside story of the Conservative Party’s imploding 2001 election campaign, made front page news across Britain. Dan has also made a number of praised science documentaries, including films for BBC Horizon and the C4 Equinox strand (for the award nominated Engines That Came In From The Cold.) Our doomed dreams of using technology to control the world around us has been an enduring fascination.

Dan is now making the move into scripted drama, and has been developing a number of projects as Writer/ Director aimed at both the cinema and television. His thriller THE UNSEEN recently won the award for Best New Screenplay at the British Horror Film Festival and was nominated for a Claw Award. In 2008 Dan’s first screenplay CASTLE ROBIN (supported by Screen South) was selected from over 300 entries for the prestigious Europe-wide EquinoxeTBC script development programme.

Dan is on the Board of Directors UK and he is a former member of the Edinburgh Television Festival Advisory Committee.

In 1996, Dan was headhunted by Tony Blair to join the team that delivered his landslide victory as Labour’s Broadcasting supremo, where he worked alongside Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell. Prior to that he was Political Producer on ITN's Channel Four News.

Dan spent his childhood in Brussels. After returning to the UK he went to Oxford University where he gained a First in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and was Editor of student magazine Isis.

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