Shane meadows

Shne meadows is one the uk's best short film, He was born in the midlands in england, he was born in the early 70s. He dropped out of school before getting is o-levels and he thought he would bulid himself as a career in crime, which quickly he found out he wasn't cut out for it.

In 1994 shane meadows got his hands on a video camera and editingequipment by voluntering his services a nottingham based intermedia film and video ltd, in return they allowed him to borrow what he need. Meadow started to experinement with making films and asking friends and family to be in them, who were at firsy wary. but as Shane started to make more movies, his family and friends were impressed and become more enthusatic to be in them. He began doing as many as 1 short film a month and him and hisfriends started of there own film festival which later became an international and is now called "Flip side".

His first film to catch the attension of the film industrey was "where's the money, Ronni?". The film got him recongnation amoong the film world and channel four give him the opportunity to makeshort documentary "King of the gypsies" about shanes friends bartley gorman for the channel four "battered briton" series

Since then shane meadow has become well known for his grown breaking feature film " This is england" in which the film portrays a England in the times of high racial tensions, he then filmed a set of hour long tv drama called " this is england 86". Shane still does short films and also tries to help new film makers, he even did a a video master class on filmmaking called " Shaynes World"

He still does short film and sticks too his kitchen sink realism that he he in reknown for. This shown in his settings and his style of filming he deals with various issues buts mixes a humour into it. He focuses on real issues big and small , from the national front to bumping into someone. He doesn't really focus on the surreal but one thing he does focus on his england and more specific the  working class.