Shane Meadows Interview: This Is England
Film.com Staff August 1, 2007
Shane Meadows and Andrew Shim sat down with Film.com at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival to discuss the new film This Is England.
Synopsis:
Set in Uttoxeter, England during the 1980s, tells the story of an 11-year-old boy who shaves his head and falls in with an older neo-Nazi gang after his father dies. Highlight the irony that the skinhead sub-culture was originally born out of a love of black reggae music, before the movement was hijacked by the racist National Front.
Directed by Shane Meadows
Written by Shane Meadows
Starring Joseph Gilgun, Stephen Graham, Kieran Hardcastle, Frank Harper, Jo Hartley
Studio: IFC First Take
Interview segment produced by Michael Kurcfeld
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