Meadows: 'Low-budget keeps you alive'

Shane Meadows has said that working on lower-budget movies helps keep him alive as a filmmaker.

The This Is England director has made Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee as part of the 5 Day Features project with Warp Films producer Mark Herbert.

Meadows told The Observer: "People might say, 'Oh, it's just them having a laugh', but it's more than that. I'd like to knock one of these out every couple of years between bigger-budget stuff.

"There's no one to fetch you a coffee or wipe your arse when you're doing three jobs on set at once. It keeps you real, keeps you alive."

He added: "Obviously no one's going to make Star Wars, but there's just enough money to encourage freethinking creativity.

"Larry Clark, the American director who made Kids, has already signed up to make one. He rang Warp and said, 'I've seen what Shane and Paddy are doing, let's have a go', and he's bloody well doing it."

> Click here to watch the trailer for Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee