Biography
Gareth Huw Evans (born April 6, 1980) is a Welsh film director, screenwriter, editor, and action choreographer. He is best known for the Indonesian action crime films Merantau (2009), The Raid (2011), and The Raid 2 (2014), and for bringing the Indonesian martial art of pencak silat into world cinema through these films. He is also known for co-creating, co-writing, co-directing, and executive producing the Sky Atlantic/AMC action crime drama television series Gangs of London(2020–present) alon...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Banished
2025
Production Sound Mixer
Grace finds herself lost, injured and alone in the wilderness whilst looking for her missing brother. Soon her only hope is another hiker who is commu...
Havoc
2025
Director, Producer, Writer
When a drug heist swerves lethally out of control, a jaded cop fights his way through a corrupt city's criminal underworld to save a politician's son.
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
2019
as Self (archive footage)
The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong ...
Apostle
2018
Director, Screenplay, Producer
In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.
Pre Vis Action
2016
Director, Writer, Producer
In a time of civil war, a young warrior is given the task of delivering a treaty between two rival lords. During her journey through the woods however...
The Raid 2
2014
Director, Writer, Editor
After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goe...
Killers
2014
Executive Producer
A psychotic executive triggers a journalist's dark side, and they begin to form a strange bond through the internet.
V/H/S/2
2013
Director, Writer, Editor
Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly ...
The Raid
2012
Director, Writer, Editor
Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the run-down apa...
Merantau
2009
as Porn Den Videographer
In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's old rites...
Merantau
2009
Director, Editor, Writer
In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's old rites...
The Feral Generation
2007
Special Effects Assistant
In 2004, a Home Office survey revealed that there are 20 to 60 youngsters,aged 16 to 24,living rough in each inner city in the UK. They are responsibl...
Footsteps
2006
Director, Writer, Producer
A young man called Andrew is forced to endure a bitter encounter with a man known as the Cameraman, who enjoys filming beatings, murders and rapes in ...
Blister
N/A
Director, Screenplay, Producer
A Colt Is My Passport
N/A
Director
A hitman and his driver go on the run after assassinating a mob boss.