Writer/director SHANE MEADOWS is best known for his ‘Midlands’
Trilogy’ consisting of Twentyfourseven, starring Bob Hoskins
and winner of the FIPRESCI award at the 1998 Venice Film Festival;
A Room for Romeo Brass, a dark and comic rites-of-passage story
featuring an impressive performance from Paddy Considine; and Once
Upon a time in the Midlands, his comedic homage to the Spaghetti
Western genre, which was selected for Directors’ Fortnight
at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.