Film

Read synopsis' of films from Pillay-Evans past, present and future including upcoming features Shadows Within, the feature length documentary Tattoo's: A Scarred History and Make Way for Tobin, based on Stanley Morgan's multi-million selling character Russ Tobin.

Discover our television department including information on upcoming releases - Dynamic Drivers, All Work No Play and Why Is Dyslexia So Hard To Spell?

Other Services

CASTING and our SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT department.

On Screen

Read more about Pillay-Evans Productions on screen careers including Sousila Pillay’s TV Presenting, with appearances on BBC and ITV, and Stephen J. Evans acting.

Films

Stephen J. Evans

Steven J Evans of Pillay-Evans Productions

Pillay-Evans Productions film department is run by BAFTA member Stephen J. Evans.

Stephen learnt his trade through attending numerous workshops with people such as 'Stephen Frears' (Dangerous Liaisons), 'Ken Russell' (The Devils), 'Timothy Burrell' (The Pianist) and 'Michael Cowan' (Merchant of Venice) and got his first job in the film industry near the top working as DoP on the feature film 'Seeing is Believing' in late 2001.

From then he went on to work on Short Films, Music Videos, Television Programmes and a variety of Corporate projects in a similar capacity. However, Stephens own desire to create his ideas into films grew so much he decided to create his own production company in 2001 called NIKJAW PRODUCTIONS LTD.

The company went forward and produced a wide variety of projects including a commercial which had a successful two month screening on the SKY network and a fitness video which sold out nationwide. However it was Stephens's love of short films that the company thrived on producing.

The next two shorts 'Blink of an Eye' and 'Out of Reach' brought particular success and prestige to NikJaw Productions Ltd. In late 2002 'Blink of an Eye' was voted third out of over six hundred films from over forty countries at the renowned Foyle Film Festival and gained a special mention from the events organisers. Then in 2003, 'Out of Reach' (a prequel to 'The Invisible World') was nominated for Best International Short at the Irish Film Festival and though it wasn't placed, as Director, Producer, Writer and Editor Stephen had great pleasure introducing the film to the enthusiastic Irish crowd.

After changing the company's structure to accomodate the very talented Sousila Pillay and re-packaging itself as PILLAY-EVANS PRODUCTIONS, more success was soon to follow as the HD short 'Fate' and the remarkable 'Self' (in which Stephen also made his acting debut) both were short-listed for the DM Davies award at the Welsh International Film Festival in 2005.

Since then, Stephen has been directing the feature documentary 'Tattoos: A Scarred History', with a host of famous faces and completed writing on Chapter One of the 'Unholy Trinity' – 'Shadows Within' which has already attracted interest from Tony Todd, Courtney Gains and Eileen Dietz. Future projects include thriller 'The List' and drama 'Veil of Tears'.