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Shane Meadows

Highest Rated: 96% Somers Town (2008)

Lowest Rated: 35% TwentyFourSeven (1997)

Birthday: Dec 26, 1972

Birthplace: Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England, UK

While he flirted with the wrong side of the law as a teenager, Shane Meadows found his true calling when he borrowed a camcorder and started making short films with his friends as actors. After producing some 30 shorts, he was tapped to helm the TV documentary "The Gypsy's Tale" in 1995. Meadows also wrote, produced, directed, edited and co-starred in the 60-minute film "Small Time" (1996), about a group of twentysomethings who survive by petty theft and their girlfriends who pass the time watching TV. Later that year, a retrospective of his work was featured at the Toronto Film Festival and his short "Where's the Money, Ronnie!" went on to earn a Channel One/NTF award in the short category. Produced Stephen Woolley was impressed enough to approach Meadows about producing a feature. The hyphenate had a script written for Bob Hoskins and once the actor viewed Meadows' videos and read the script, he signed on. The result was the acclaimed "TwentyFourSeven" (1997), shot in black and white, and centering on the efforts of a charismatic man who tries to rescue the dissolute youths of a town by opening a boxing club. Meadows then signed a two-year, two-picture deal with the newly formed Company Pictures. One of the projected projects was a Western set in Wales.

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Highest rated movies

96% 75% Somers Town
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93% 90% This Is England
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87% 66% Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee
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77% 76% The Stone Roses: Made of Stone
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71% 92% A Room for Romeo Brass
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60% 91% Dead Man's Shoes
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50% 45% Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
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35% 82% TwentyFourSeven
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Smalltime
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
77% 76% The Stone Roses: Made of Stone Self,
Director
- 2013
87% 66% Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee Director,
Screenwriter
- 2009
96% 75% Somers Town Director $54.0K 2008
93% 90% This Is England Director,
Writer
$327.9K 2006
60% 91% Dead Man's Shoes Director,
Writer
$6.0K 2004
50% 45% Once Upon a Time in the Midlands Director,
Writer
$171.8K 2002
71% 92% A Room for Romeo Brass Director,
Writer
$20.1K 1999
35% 82% TwentyFourSeven Director $71.2K 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Smalltime Jumbo (Character),
Director,
Producer,
Writer
- 1996

TV

Credit
82% 85% The Gallows Pole: This Valley Will Rise Director,
Writer
2023
100% 92% The Virtues Director,
Writer
2019
No Score Yet 100% This Is England '90 Writer 2015
No Score Yet 100% This Is England '88 Director,
Writer
2011
No Score Yet 100% This Is England '86 Executive Producer,
Director
2010