Before Mill Digital, I ran the Colour Grading Department at The Mill.

We worked with Shane Meadows on several projects, most notably Somers Town - entirely funded by Eurostar and made out of ad agency Mother - and possibly This Is England (the movie), but don’t quote me on that.

Shane was colour grading with us when he told us about this ultra low-budget film he’d shot, Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee. It follows Le Donk, an ageing, deluded roadie played by Paddy Considine, attempting to launch the rap career of his protégé, Scor-Zay-Zee, culminating in a support slot for (the actual) Arctic Monkeys at the Manchester Evening News Arena.

Entirely improvised, shot in five days, £48K total budget, and naturally Shane had sod all left to finish it.

With the help of colourist Mick Vincent and flame artist John Thornton, we found a way to wrangle it through The Mill and get it into the world. Shane was always a joy to work with and, both being from the East Midlands, we talked a considerable amount of bollocks about Derby and Notts.