Welsh action man

Don't forget, you read it here first: one of the 'hottest' new British names in the directing stakes is about to be Welsh-born Gareth Huw Evans.

The University of Glamorgan scriptwriting graduate has just won the 2011 Toronto Film Festival's prestigious  Cadillac People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award for The Raid.

Starring Indonesian martial arts sensation Iko Uwais, The Raid follows a SWAT team that's trapped in a rundown apartment block in Jakarta filled with heavily armed drug dealers and killers.

Evans clearly has a taste for the exotic. His first film was a short, Samurai Monogatari,  telling the tale of a Samurai waiting to be executed. Filmed in Japanese, it starred students from Tokyo who were studying at Cardiff University at the time.