When the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) takes you under its wing, you know your star is in the ascendant. That’s exactly what’s happened to Tian, the Hong Kong-born, Oxfordshire-raised documentary filmmaker who’s a relatively new force on the film scene. He may have started out with a camcorder in his parents’ garden, but his first project—a documentary he made aged just 16, A Soldier, about his uncle who served in Iraq and Afghanistan—went on to win Best Documentary at the British Film Institute’s Future Film Festival in 2010, marking his card as one to watch. With a stint in Beijing and a Bafta scholarship to study in Hong Kong under his belt, Tian has now directed and shot several acclaimed short films, winning awards as he goes. Most recently, A Way of Life won Best Documentary at the London Lift- Off Film Festival in 2015. His next project and first feature-length documentary tells a tale of the Cultural Revolution and is being shot on the Chinese-Siberian border. Clearly, we all need to watch this space.