Jamie Magnus Stone (born 15 December 1985) is a Scottish film director and animator, who studied at the

National Film and Television School The National Film and Television School (NFTS) is a film, television and games school established in 1971 and based at Beaconsfield Studios in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England. It is featured in the 2024 ranking by ''The Hollywood Repo ...

. He is the son of

Sally Magnusson Sally Anne Stone (''née'' Magnusson; born 11 October 1955), known professionally as Sally Magnusson, is a Scottish broadcast journalist, television presenter and writer, who recently presented the Thursday and Friday night edition of BBC Scotl ...

and grandson of

Magnus Magnusson Magnus Magnusson (born Magnús Sigursteinsson; 12 October 1929 – 7 January 2007) was an Icelandic-born British-based journalist, translator, writer and television presenter. Born in Reykjavík, he lived in Scotland for almost all his life, al ...

and Mamie Baird.

Career

Stone studied film and television at the

Edinburgh College of Art Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) is one of eleven schools in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Tracing its history back to 1760, it provides higher education in art and design, architecture, histor ...

where he made his first films; ''Flights'', about an old man and his flight of stairs, and the Scottish BAFTA nominated ''Fritz'' about a German Spy who lives under a boy's bed. Whilst directing fiction films, he also developed his skills in sand animation and won the MacLaren Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival and Best Animation at BAFTA Scotland in 2008 for his series of Three Minute Wonders, ''The World According To'', produced by Anders Jedenfors. Stone enrolled at the National Film and Television School in 2010. He was interviewed by ''

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'' in 2010 after making his first year film, ''Far Removed''. In August 2014, Stone was nominated for a BAFTA for his short film ''Orbit Ever After''. In November 2019, Stone was announced as one of the directors for the twelfth series of ''

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''. He directed two filming blocks, consisting of four episodes, including " Spyfall, Part 1", " Praxeus", " Ascension of the Cybermen", and " The Timeless Children". Stone returned to direct for the thirteenth series, with the episodes " The Halloween Apocalypse", "

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", and " Village of the Angels", as well as "

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", the final episode in a trio of subsequent specials. In May 2022, the

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and STAN commissioned a new series to be directed by Stone, ''

Ten Pound Poms Ten Pound Poms were British citizens who migrated to Australia and New Zealand after the Second World War. The government of Australia initiated the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme in 1945, and the government of New Zealand initiated a simil ...

'', a drama about the British citizens who migrated to Australia after the

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, with filming commencing in Australia shortly after.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stone, Jamie 1985 births Living people Scottish film directors Scottish people of Icelandic descent Alumni of the National Film and Television School Alumni of the Edinburgh College of Art