Joe Meek, which he was initially slated to direct. Also in 2012, Marc Evans directed the ITV produced Doors Open, a television adaptation of a book by the crime novelist Ian Rankin. The film tells the story of a self-made millionaire, an art professor and a banker, who come together to undertake an audacious art heist. The TV movie is starring Douglas Henshall and Stephen Fry. Evans also directed the upcoming documentary feature titled Jack to a King – The Swansea Story, about the rise of Swansea City Football Club to the Premier League for the past decade. It is produced by YJB Films and was released on 12 September 2014. During the documentary production, Evans admitted that, “The thing that appealed to me the most was that it was something totally outside my experience and a story I’d not heard before. It was a film without any adult supervision – it was there for the taking as no one said how it had to be made. We were free to make the kind of film we felt we could make.” Evans directed Cassy and Jude, a romantic comedy film based on the novel Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker. The film is produced by Sam Taylor and Mike Downey of Film & Music Entertainment Ltd, and is executive produced by Stephen Daldry. It is rumoured, that Marc Evans will direct another musical film, entitled Once Upon a Time in Wigan, about the northern soul scene in Wigan Casino set in the 1970s. However, he is said to direct the Israeli-Palestinian comedy Birthright, produced by New York-based BoomGen Studios. The film tells the story of a shy Jewish-American boy, who follows the girl of his dreams on a trip to Israel, only to wind up lost in Palestine. The script for this movie was written by Ari Issler and Ben Snyder, after they had been on a trip to Israel. Evans is a visiting professor at the University of Glamorgan's creative arts school ATRiuM. Personal life Marc Evans is married to actress Nia Roberts; the couple lives in Cardiff, and have a daughter, Edith. Filmography Films Director Executive producer Cymru Fach (2008) Television TV movies Le jeu du roi (1991) Thicker than Water (1994) Bliss (1995) Doors Open (2012) TV series East of the Moon (1988) Letters from Patagonia (1988) The Gift (1990, mini-series, co-director) Friday on My Mind