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Myles Petford

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  • Writer
  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Myles Petford
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Myles Petford is a writer and director whose award-winning feature directorial debut, I Was A Soldier (2024), received international distribution through Amazon Prime in 2024. After an internship at Vancouver Film Studios, he went on to write and direct the pilot episode of In Between on location in Mumbai, India. His screenwriting credits include the feature adaptation Twisted Truth (2028), acquired by producer Michael Burkenbine, former Executive Director at Sony Pictures, and the upcoming semi-biopic Flame.
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    Known for

    I Was A Soldier (2024)
    I Was A Soldier
    8.3
    • Director
    • 2024
    Ralph Fiennes, Bruce Willis, Will Ferrell, Chris McKay, Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks, Kristen Alderson, Kristen Ariza, Ike Barinholtz, Charlie Day, Noel Fielding, Will Forte, Christopher Miller, Mike Mitchell, Jason Momoa, Nick Offerman, Gary Payton, Chris Pratt, Maya Rudolph, Cora Miller, Cobie Smulders, Trisha Gum, Channing Tatum, Richard Ayoade, Alison Brie, Sheryl Swoopes, Jorma Taccone, Jonah Hill, Tiffany Haddish, Ben Schwartz, Doug Nicholas, Margot Rubin, Todd Hansen, Teri Reeves, Jadon Sand, Stephanie Beatriz, Ollie Mitchell, Emily Nordwind, Liam Knight, Jimmy O. Yang, Ryan Halprin, Graham Miller, Lauren White, Kristen Phaneuf, Brooklynn Prince, Sawyer D. Jones, and Emmett Mitchell in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
    The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
    6.5
    • Production Department
    • 2019
    Twisted Truth (2028)
    Twisted Truth
    • Director
    • 2028
    Peter Adamson, Jean Alexander, Johnny Briggs, Margot Bryant, and Doris Speed in Coronation Street (1960)
    Coronation Street
    5.6
    TV Series
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director

    Credits

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    Director

    • Twisted Truth
      • Director
      • Pre-production
      • 2028
    • Flame
      • directed by
      • Pre-production
      • TV Mini Series
      • 2028
    • Echoes from the Infantry
      • Director
      • Pre-production
      • 2029
    • In Between
      • director
      • Filming
      • TV Mini Series
    • Gi
      • director
      • Filming
      • Short
    • I Was A Soldier (2024)
      I Was A Soldier
      8.3
      • Director
      • 2024
    • Hollyoaks (1995)
      Hollyoaks
      4.6
      TV Series
      • directed by
      • 2024
    • Future Times (2018)
      Future Times
      7.5
      Short
      • Director
      • 2018
    • Cole (2017)
      Cole
      8.9
      Short
      • Director
      • 2017

    Writer

    • Twisted Truth
      • screenplay
      • adaptation
      • Pre-production
      • 2028
    • Flame
      • written by
      • Pre-production
      • TV Mini Series
      • 2028
    • Echoes from the Infantry
      • Writer
      • Pre-production
      • 2029
    • In Between
      • writer
      • Filming
      • TV Mini Series
    • I Was A Soldier (2024)
      I Was A Soldier
      8.3
      • Writer
      • 2024
    • Future Times (2018)
      Future Times
      7.5
      Short
      • Writer
      • 2018
    • Cole (2017)
      Cole
      8.9
      Short
      • Writer
      • 2017

    Second Unit or Assistant Director

    • EastEnders (1985)
      EastEnders
      4.8
      TV Series
      • first assistant director
      • 1st assistant director
      • 2025–2026
    • Peter Adamson, Jean Alexander, Johnny Briggs, Margot Bryant, and Doris Speed in Coronation Street (1960)
      Coronation Street
      5.6
      TV Series
      • first assistant director
      • 2022–2023
    • Hollyoaks (1995)
      Hollyoaks
      4.6
      TV Series
      • first assistant director
      • assistant director
      • 2023
    • Emmerdale Farm (1972)
      Emmerdale Farm
      4.9
      TV Series
      • first assistant director
      • 2022
    • Selkie (2022)
      Selkie
      Short
      • first assistant director
      • 2022
    • Gabriel Byrne and Daisy Edgar-Jones in War of the Worlds (2019)
      War of the Worlds
      6.5
      TV Series
      • first assistant director
      • 2022
    • Paapa Essiedu in The Lazarus Project (2022)
      The Lazarus Project
      7.3
      TV Series
      • second assistant director
      • 2022
    • Casualty (1986)
      Casualty
      6.2
      TV Series
      • second assistant director
      • first assistant director
      • 2021–2022
    • Max Brown, Lorna Watson, and Jerry Iwu in Sister Boniface Mysteries (2022)
      Sister Boniface Mysteries
      7.2
      TV Series
      • second assistant director
      • 2022

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