Shane Meadows

Shane Meadows is an English filmmaker from Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, who works as a director, screenwriter and actor in independent cinema. He left school without completing his GCSEs and, with video newly available, began shooting short films. At Burton College he studied performing arts and met Paddy Considine, a future collaborator. Many of his features are set in the Midlands, and he drew on his youth for TwentyFourSeven (1998), which earned the Douglas Hickox award from the British Independent Film Awards plus Best Screenplay at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, and for A Room for Romeo Brass. Dead Man's Shoes brought a BAFTA nomination for Best British Film, while Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002) was another feature. This Is England won best British independent film at the 2006 British Independent Film Awards and a BAFTA for Best British Film, leading to three television sequels. He also directed The Stone Roses: Made of Stone (2013).