Shane Meadows is a British film director and screenwriter. He started making films after leaving school before his GCSEs. When he was younger he went on regular trips to the cinema, which is what spurred his love for film. In his twenties, Meadows moved to Nottingham. Living in Nottingham, he made around 30 short films with the help of his family and friends. Unfortunately there were no film festivals, so he had nowhere to display his work publicly. He and his friends decided to ask their local cinema for help in exhibiting their films and they ended up creating their own local film festival. Shane Meadows sets most of his films around the Midlands area and many of them are autobiographical, based on events that happened in his own life, such as "Twenty Four Seven", "A Room For Romeo Brass" and even "Dead Man's Shoes". He has a fairly relaxed style of directing and doesn't like to stick to a perfectly set script because he feels like it doesn't make the acting seem real enough to him. He prefers it when his actors ad lib in scenes to portray a better sense of realism. From watching some of his films I can tell that he is very good at creating films that portray real life, even if not everybody experiences the same things in their version of real life, he makes things believable and doesn't try to glamorise them like Hollywood films.
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