Post by jamesprice on Jun 19, 2019 13:13:44 GMT
I posted on here a few years ago when I first started my journey as a writer/director so felt like I should pop back with a wee update.
I left secondary school in third year, had no college or university education. Taught myself how to write screenplays in my teens and started sending stuff out to be brutally rejected in my early 20s.
I was quite a sickly in my early teens and would spend a lot of time watching A Room For Romeo Brass because it really resonated with me. I still remember the morning vividly my wee Ma and Da came home with Dead Man's Shoes and Layercake on DVD the morning they were released. I actually miss the buzz of getting a new DVD in this new VoD era.
What inspired me even more than Shane's films were his interviews. I saw a normal working class guy who was telling stories that were authentic and real and based around his everyday world.
This made what was once an unattainable fever dream attainable. To be a filmmaker I suddenly no longer had to be a privately educated wanker I just had to have something authentic to say.
After a few years now of making short films I've gotten onto BBC Writersroom programs in London, which is mental for a wee boy from a shithole in the North of Glasgow to even imagine.
I still stay in a one bedroom flat with my Dad in my wee North Glasgow scheme but I'm on track now, I've recently received my first big commission to write a pilot based on my teenage years on the periphary of Glasgow's gangfighting culture for the production company behind Line of Duty and The Bodyguard. Whether it ever gets made is arbitrary because the fact that I'm in the room with these people is an absolute dream come true to me.
My latest short film Boys Night is about a night from my younger years when I had to shepherd my extremely drunk dad home safely. It premieres at Edinburgh International Film Festival next week and has been nominated for Best Short Film there as well.
All of this I can 100% say would never have felt attainable to me if it wasn't for Shane Meadows work and Peter Mullan's first feature Orphans. These things completely changed my life and I owe a debt of gratitude to the work of Shane Meadows and hope I can be even half the filmmaker he is one day.
Have a gander at the trailer for Boys Night here to enjoy some Scottish patter...
I left secondary school in third year, had no college or university education. Taught myself how to write screenplays in my teens and started sending stuff out to be brutally rejected in my early 20s.
I was quite a sickly in my early teens and would spend a lot of time watching A Room For Romeo Brass because it really resonated with me. I still remember the morning vividly my wee Ma and Da came home with Dead Man's Shoes and Layercake on DVD the morning they were released. I actually miss the buzz of getting a new DVD in this new VoD era.
What inspired me even more than Shane's films were his interviews. I saw a normal working class guy who was telling stories that were authentic and real and based around his everyday world.
This made what was once an unattainable fever dream attainable. To be a filmmaker I suddenly no longer had to be a privately educated wanker I just had to have something authentic to say.
After a few years now of making short films I've gotten onto BBC Writersroom programs in London, which is mental for a wee boy from a shithole in the North of Glasgow to even imagine.
I still stay in a one bedroom flat with my Dad in my wee North Glasgow scheme but I'm on track now, I've recently received my first big commission to write a pilot based on my teenage years on the periphary of Glasgow's gangfighting culture for the production company behind Line of Duty and The Bodyguard. Whether it ever gets made is arbitrary because the fact that I'm in the room with these people is an absolute dream come true to me.
My latest short film Boys Night is about a night from my younger years when I had to shepherd my extremely drunk dad home safely. It premieres at Edinburgh International Film Festival next week and has been nominated for Best Short Film there as well.
All of this I can 100% say would never have felt attainable to me if it wasn't for Shane Meadows work and Peter Mullan's first feature Orphans. These things completely changed my life and I owe a debt of gratitude to the work of Shane Meadows and hope I can be even half the filmmaker he is one day.
Have a gander at the trailer for Boys Night here to enjoy some Scottish patter...
