Neil Biswas

Neil Biswas is a leading television and Film writer and creator, playwright and director best known for his BAFTA-nominated, non-fictional TV drama Bradford Riots, which he wrote and directed. Bradford Riots was broadcast on Channel 4, winning the Arts Council England Decibel Award. Neil is the co-creator, lead writer and co-executive producer for Stan Lee’s Lucky Man, which aired in January 2016. It was Sky 1’s highest-rated original drama series ever. Neil’s debut feature, Darkness Visible, which he wrote and directed, was released in 2019. Darkness Visible is a supernatural thriller, which was entirely filmed on the streets and locations of Kolkata, India – featuring a completely Indian cast drawn from Mumbai and Kolkata.

“This lavish and beautifully visualised film holds its nerve impressively… implicitly haunted not only by actual spirits but also by the fear, guilt and self-consciousness of the long–term exile.” – Sight and Sound on Darkness Visible.

Neil was a Lead Director on Channel Four’s iconic youth show Skins – and also adapted Martina Cole’s The Take for Sky 1, starring Tom Hardy and Brian Cox. Neil grew up in the Bengali community of East London, and his first authored piece for television – Second Generation – for Channel 4, explored the migrant communities of his parents. Neil started writing for TV on the ten part state of the nation BBC 2 series In a Land of Plenty, for which he wrote episodes 4–7, beginning with a Clash concert and ending in Rave.