Michael Winterbottom is the director of award-winning films and TV series including Jude (1996); Welcome to Sarajevo (1997); Wonderland (1999); 24 Hour Party People (2002); The Road to Guantanamo (2006); The Trip (2010), The Trip to Italy (2013), The Trip to Spain (2017) and The Trip to Greece (2020), as well as the 2019 feature Greed (2019). He is currently working on a TV mini-series focusing on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis.

Seeking to understand the obstacles that even notable names face trying to finance a British film these days, Winterbottom uses the first Covid lockdown to interview an enviable list of directors, including Steve McQueen, Lynne Ramsay and Mike Leigh… There’s fascinating candour… Eye-opening and addictively readable.

• FOREWORDSDark MatterThe Starting PointMore is MoreINTERVIEWSPawel PawlikowskiDanny BoyleJoanna HoggAsif KapadiaJames MarshAndrew HaighCarol MorleyEdgar WrightSteve McQueenLynne RamsayStephen DaldryBen WheatleyPeter StricklandMike LeighKen LoachAFTER WORDSProduction Companies: A Protected SpaceSome NumbersMore NumbersBritish Cinema and TelevisionA Note on the Author

Michael Winterbottom is the director of award-winning films and TV series including Jude (1996); Welcome to Sarajevo (1997); Wonderland (1999); 24 Hour Party People (2002); The Road to Guantanamo (2006); The Trip (2010), The Trip to Italy (2013), The Trip to Spain (2017) and The Trip to Greece (2020), as well as the 2019 feature Greed (2019). He is currently working on a TV mini-series focusing on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis.

Seeking to understand the obstacles that even notable names face trying to finance a British film these days, Winterbottom uses the first Covid lockdown to interview an enviable list of directors, including Steve McQueen, Lynne Ramsay and Mike Leigh… There’s fascinating candour… Eye-opening and addictively readable.

• FOREWORDSDark MatterThe Starting PointMore is MoreINTERVIEWSPawel PawlikowskiDanny BoyleJoanna HoggAsif KapadiaJames MarshAndrew HaighCarol MorleyEdgar WrightSteve McQueenLynne RamsayStephen DaldryBen WheatleyPeter StricklandMike LeighKen LoachAFTER WORDSProduction Companies: A Protected SpaceSome NumbersMore NumbersBritish Cinema and TelevisionA Note on the Author

Michael Winterbottom is the director of award-winning films and TV series including Jude (1996); Welcome to Sarajevo (1997); Wonderland (1999); 24 Hour Party People (2002); The Road to Guantanamo (2006); The Trip (2010), The Trip to Italy (2013), The Trip to Spain (2017) and The Trip to Greece (2020), as well as the 2019 feature Greed (2019). He is currently working on a TV mini-series focusing on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis.

Seeking to understand the obstacles that even notable names face trying to finance a British film these days, Winterbottom uses the first Covid lockdown to interview an enviable list of directors, including Steve McQueen, Lynne Ramsay and Mike Leigh… There’s fascinating candour… Eye-opening and addictively readable.

• FOREWORDSDark MatterThe Starting PointMore is MoreINTERVIEWSPawel PawlikowskiDanny BoyleJoanna HoggAsif KapadiaJames MarshAndrew HaighCarol MorleyEdgar WrightSteve McQueenLynne RamsayStephen DaldryBen WheatleyPeter StricklandMike LeighKen LoachAFTER WORDSProduction Companies: A Protected SpaceSome NumbersMore NumbersBritish Cinema and TelevisionA Note on the Author