Liam James Payne (born 29 August 1993) is an English singer and songwriter.
He rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction.
Payne made his debut as a singer when he auditioned for the British television series The X Factor in 2008. After being eliminated as a solo performer, he auditioned again in 2010 and was put into a group with four other contestants to form One Direction
EXCLUSIVE: MTV Documentary Films’ Oscar-contender I Am Ready, Warden, directed by Smriti Mundhra, will premiere on Paramount+ November 22.
The short documentary, about a death row inmate seeking the possibility of redemption as his execution date approaches, earned its latest award over the weekend at the Woodstock Film Festival.
The project reunites MTV Documentary Films with Mundhra; they teamed up for the 2019 short documentary St. Louis Superman, which earned the first Academy Award nomination for MTV’s nonfiction banner.
It also brought the first Oscar nom to Mundhra and her fellow director on that film, Sami Khan. I Am Ready, Warden, which premiered earlier this year at Montana’s Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, “tells the harrowing and emotionally charged story of John Henry Ramirez, a man convicted of murder and sentenced to death in Texas,” according to a release. “Through his time on death row, the film offers a rare and intimate glimpse into his attempts to seek redemption and reconciliation.
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