---
name: "Harry Lighton"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/harry-lighton"
fi1m_id: "harry-lighton"
imdb_id: "nm7502337"
tmdb_id: 1941982
wikidata_id: "Q76055111"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "20 October 1992"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T04:10:17.699941+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Harry Lighton

## Identity

Harry Lighton

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/harry-lighton
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** harry-lighton
- **IMDb ID:** nm7502337
- **TMDB ID:** 1941982
- **Wikidata ID:** Q76055111
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Lighton, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76055111, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7502337/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1941982

Director. Born 20 October 1992 in Portsmouth, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 20 October 1992, Portsmouth, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Lighton, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76055111, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7502337/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1941982

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Pillion*](https://film.one/film/pillion.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Harry Lighton is a British film director and screenwriter. He studied literature at the University of Oxford and began making short films there. His short film *Wren Boys* (2017) received a nomination for Best British Short Film at the BAFTAs.

Lighton’s feature debut *Pillion* (2025), which he also wrote, is an adaptation of Adam Mars-Jones’s novel *Box Hill*. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay award. The film stars Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård. He has collaborated with director Oliver Hermanus, serving as a director’s assistant on *Living* and writing the screenplay for an upcoming biopic of Alexander McQueen.

*Sources: deadline.com, bfi.org.uk, screendaily.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Pillion* (2025), Fi1m 80, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/pillion.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Pillion* (2025), Director, Writer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/pillion.md)
- *The History of Sound* (2025), Thanks — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/the-history-of-sound.md)
- *Pompeii* (2019), Director, Writer
- *Leash* (2018), Director, Writer
- *Wren Boys* (2017), Director, Writer
- *Sunday Morning Coming Down* (2016), Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Harry Lighton](https://film.one/media/person/5513902/gallery-579e909f77f0.jpg) Harry Lighton — Quejaytee, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Harry_Lighton_on_the_Green_Carpet_at_the_2025_Zurich_Film_Festival_05.jpg/1280px-Harry_Lighton_on_the_Green_Carpet_at_the_2025_Zurich_Film_Festival_05.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Harry Lighton, director, at the 63rd New York Film Festival for his film Pillion (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/5513902/gallery-88b8cb55828c.jpg) Harry Lighton, director, at the 63rd New York Film Festival for his film Pillion (2025) — Claire Fridkin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Harry_Lighton_at_NYFF_2025_01_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Harry_Lighton_at_NYFF_2025_01_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Harry Lighton on the Green Carpet at the 2025 Zurich Film Festival.](https://film.one/media/person/5513902/gallery-6d460fc5635c.jpg) Harry Lighton on the Green Carpet at the 2025 Zurich Film Festival. — Quejaytee, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Harry_Lighton_on_the_Green_Carpet_at_the_2025_Zurich_Film_Festival_07.jpg/1280px-Harry_Lighton_on_the_Green_Carpet_at_the_2025_Zurich_Film_Festival_07.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Harry Lighton, director, at the 63rd New York Film Festival for his film Pillion (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/5513902/gallery-dbc97c83c73a.jpg) Harry Lighton, director, at the 63rd New York Film Festival for his film Pillion (2025) — Claire Fridkin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Harry_Lighton_at_NYFF_2025_02.jpg/1280px-Harry_Lighton_at_NYFF_2025_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Harry Lighton](https://film.one/media/person/5513902/gallery-271f2e41710f.jpg) Harry Lighton — Image via TMDB
- ![Harry Lighton on the Green Carpet at the 2025 Zurich Film Festival.](https://film.one/media/person/5513902/gallery-c30946841920.jpg) Harry Lighton on the Green Carpet at the 2025 Zurich Film Festival. — Quejaytee, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Harry_Lighton_on_the_Green_Carpet_at_the_2025_Zurich_Film_Festival_04.jpg/1280px-Harry_Lighton_on_the_Green_Carpet_at_the_2025_Zurich_Film_Festival_04.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Harry Lighton on the Green Carpet at the 2025 Zurich Film Festival.](https://film.one/media/person/5513902/gallery-73e10607e245.jpg) Harry Lighton on the Green Carpet at the 2025 Zurich Film Festival. — Quejaytee, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Harry_Lighton_on_the_Green_Carpet_at_the_2025_Zurich_Film_Festival_01.jpg/1280px-Harry_Lighton_on_the_Green_Carpet_at_the_2025_Zurich_Film_Festival_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/harry-lighton