Harry Lighton

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Harry Lighton on the Green Carpet at the 2025 Zurich Film Festival.

Harry Lighton is an English film director and screenwriter, whose feature directorial debut Pillion premiered in 2025.[1]

Lighton, the son of Sir Thomas Hamilton Lighton of the Lighton baronetcy,[2] is from Portsmouth, Hampshire, and began making short films whilst studying English literature at the University of Oxford.[3] 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,[4] and a British Independent Film Award nomination for Best British Short Film at the British Independent Film Awards 2017.[5]

Pillion premiered in the Un Certain Regard programme at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival,[6] where Lighton won the award for Best Screenplay in the programme.[7]

Filmography

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  • Knitlab: XY - 2016
  • Sunday Morning Coming Down - 2016
  • Look at Me - 2017
  • Wren Boys - 2017
  • Leash - 2018
  • Pompeii - 2019
  • Pillion - 2025

References

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  1. ^ Gant, Charles (18 May 2025). "'Pillion' director Harry Lighton on finding the light in his transgressive queer drama: "I didn't want the sex to feel like empty provocation"". Screen Daily. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
  2. ^ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage: Clan Chiefs, Scottish Feudal Barons. Burke's Peerage. p. 2330. ISBN 0971196621.
  3. ^ Dalton, Ben (4 October 2018). "Stars of Tomorrow 2018: Harry Lighton (writer/director)". Screen Daily. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
  4. ^ Fletcher, Rosie (18 February 2018). "BAFTA Film Awards 2018 winners list in full". Digital Spy. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
  5. ^ Grater, Tom (1 November 2017). "'Lady Macbeth' leads 2017 BIFAs with 15 nominations"". Screen Daily. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
  6. ^ Debruge, Peter (18 May 2025). "'Pillion' Review: Edgy Queer Romance Stars Alexander Skarsgård as a Sexy Biker and Harry Melling as His Budding Submissive". Variety. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
  7. ^ Parfitt, Orlando (23 May 2025). "Chile's 'The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo' wins top Un Certain Regard award at 2025 Cannes Film Festival". Screen Daily. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
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