Date: 2025

Format: feature filM

Director: Marc Evans

Writer: tom bullough & josh hyAMS

Producers: ed talfan, josh hyamS, Hannah Thomas, trevor matthews

Starring: toby jones, harry lawtey, lesley manville, aimee-ffion edwards, aneuirin barnard, steffan rhodri

PARTNERS: SEVERN SCREEN/BBC WALes/FFILM CYMRU WALES

MR. BURTON tells the true story of the relationship between Welsh schoolmaster Philip Burton and a wild young schoolboy called Richard Jenkins. The latter dreamed of becoming an actor, but his ambitions were in danger of being derailed by a combination of family trouble, the pressure of war, and his own lack of discipline. Mr. Burton recognized the raw talent in his pupil, and made it his mission to fight for him, becoming his tutor, strict taskmaster and eventually his adoptive father. Actor Burton would go on to be nominated for seven Oscars.