Wins Bafta 2013

"The Bafta outstanding debut award this year went also, notably, to a documentary film-maker, Bart Layton and his producer Dimitri Doganis for their The Imposter, in many ways one of the evening's most fascinating prizewinners, the stranger-than-fiction account of Frédéric Bourdin, the notorious sociopath-conman who in the 90s fooled everyone into thinking he was an American teen who had vanished some years before. With the cool audacity of someone making a suspense thriller, Layton held back the awful twist until near the very end. Part of the purpose of this Bafta is to energise debutant talents and to encourage their careers, and it will be intriguing to see what Layton directs next. A fiction feature maybe?"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/feb/10/baftas-2013-ben-affleck-arg o