Shane Meadows
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Meadows in October 2009
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| Born |
26 December 1972 Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England |
| Residence | Nottingham, England |
| Occupation | Director, screenwriter, actor |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Spouse(s) | Joanne Wilkinson |
| Website | www |
Shane Meadows (born 26 December 1972) is an English filmmaker of independent film. He is best known for the British cult film series This is England (2006–2015). His 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 (2006), Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009), and The Stone Roses: Made of Stone (2013).
Meadows was born and raised in Uttoxeter. His father was a long distance lorry driver and his mother worked in a fish and chip shop. His father discovered the body of child murder victim Susan Maxwell and was initially a suspect in the murder case, which led to Meadows being bullied and shunned by other children. He attended Picknalls First School, Oldfields Hall Middle School and Thomas Alleyne's High School. On weekends, he sold produce at a market in Uttoxeter. His love of cinema was fostered by regular trips to the Elite Cinema.
Meadows left school shortly before reaching his GCSEs, and soon turned to petty crime. He moved to Nottingham when he was 20. While living in the Sneinton area of Nottingham, he made roughly 30 short films with the friends he met there. He could not show these films to anyone because there were no film festivals in his area, so his friends started one in the local cinema which became popular within the city.
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