Andrew Macdonald

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“I would love to be able to write above all else. If you can write a screenplay, that’s gold. People don’t appreciate that skill enough. As a producer, if you have the material, the doors will open.”

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A maverick producer inspired by US indie filmmakers of the late 1980s and early 1990s, Andrew Macdonald gave British cinema a huge jolt with Shallow Grave (1994) and Trainspotting (1996). Born in Glasgow in 1966, Macdonald was from filmmaking stock. His grandfather was the mercurial Hungarian screenwriter Emeric Pressburger, ...

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