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Shane Meadows
Shane Meadows (born 26 December 1972) is an English director, screenwriter and actor, known for his work in independent film, most notably the cult film This Is England (2006) and its three television sequels (2010–2015).
Meadows' other films include Small Time (1996), Twenty Four Seven (1997), A Room for Romeo Brass (1999), Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002), Dead Man's Shoes (2004), Somers Town (2008), Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009), and The Stone Roses: Made of Stone (2013).
Meadows was born on 26 December 1972 in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. Meadow's father, Arty, was a lorry driver and his mother a shop assistant.
In 1982, when Meadow's was 10, his father discovered the body of Susan Maxwell, a child murder victim of Robert Black, beside the A518 in Staffordshire and was initially a suspect in the murder case, which led to Meadows being bullied at school. At this time, his parents sent him to live with his aunt in an effort to protect him from the media coverage, but Meadows was bullied and sexually assaulted. He described to The Guardian that he buried his sexual assault, resulting in periods of depression that started in his 20s, and in his 40s was diagnosed with PTSD and received EMDR therapy.
Meadows moved to Nottingham when he was 20.
Meadows left school before completing his GCSEs and took advantage of the emergence of video to start shooting short films.
Meadows enrolled on a Performing Arts course at Burton College, where he first met friend and future collaborator Paddy Considine.[citation needed] They formed the band She Talks to Angels (inspired by a Black Crowes song of the same name), with Meadows as vocalist and Considine as drummer. Lead guitarist in She Talks To Angels was Nick Hemming, who was also a member of the Telescopes and now fronts The Leisure Society.
The majority of Meadows' films have been set in the Midlands. While they recall the kitchen sink realism of filmmakers such as Mike Leigh and Alan Clarke,[citation needed] their use of autobiographical material and popular music soundtracks were influenced by Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets, the film which Meadows has credited with inspiring him to become a filmmaker: "It was obviously about people Scorsese understood and had grown up with. It was the first time that I thought, 'Maybe you don't have to make a film about a genre, maybe you can make a film about your own life.' "
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Shane Meadows
Shane Meadows (born 26 December 1972) is an English director, screenwriter and actor, known for his work in independent film, most notably the cult film This Is England (2006) and its three television sequels (2010–2015).
Meadows' other films include Small Time (1996), Twenty Four Seven (1997), A Room for Romeo Brass (1999), Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002), Dead Man's Shoes (2004), Somers Town (2008), Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009), and The Stone Roses: Made of Stone (2013).
Meadows was born on 26 December 1972 in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. Meadow's father, Arty, was a lorry driver and his mother a shop assistant.
In 1982, when Meadow's was 10, his father discovered the body of Susan Maxwell, a child murder victim of Robert Black, beside the A518 in Staffordshire and was initially a suspect in the murder case, which led to Meadows being bullied at school. At this time, his parents sent him to live with his aunt in an effort to protect him from the media coverage, but Meadows was bullied and sexually assaulted. He described to The Guardian that he buried his sexual assault, resulting in periods of depression that started in his 20s, and in his 40s was diagnosed with PTSD and received EMDR therapy.
Meadows moved to Nottingham when he was 20.
Meadows left school before completing his GCSEs and took advantage of the emergence of video to start shooting short films.
Meadows enrolled on a Performing Arts course at Burton College, where he first met friend and future collaborator Paddy Considine.[citation needed] They formed the band She Talks to Angels (inspired by a Black Crowes song of the same name), with Meadows as vocalist and Considine as drummer. Lead guitarist in She Talks To Angels was Nick Hemming, who was also a member of the Telescopes and now fronts The Leisure Society.
The majority of Meadows' films have been set in the Midlands. While they recall the kitchen sink realism of filmmakers such as Mike Leigh and Alan Clarke,[citation needed] their use of autobiographical material and popular music soundtracks were influenced by Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets, the film which Meadows has credited with inspiring him to become a filmmaker: "It was obviously about people Scorsese understood and had grown up with. It was the first time that I thought, 'Maybe you don't have to make a film about a genre, maybe you can make a film about your own life.' "