Steven Woodcock (film director)
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Steven Woodcock | |
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| Born | July 13, 1961 Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Education | Manchester University (Industrial Design) |
| Alma mater | Batley School of Art and Design |
| Occupations | Film director, writer, producer |
| Notable work | Between Two Women, The Jealous God |
| Spouse | Julie Woodcock |
Steven Woodcock (born 13 July 1961) is a British film director, writer, and producer.[1] He has made two movies set in north England, Between Two Women and The Jealous God. They are similarly set in the 1950s and 1960s and resemble each other in production while differing in tone and narrative style.
Woodcock has written at least one book under his own name, the novel Between Two Women, on which he based a film screenplay.[2] In the DVD documentary, The Making of Between Two Women, he gives a tour of the main set for his third feature film, Flight into Camden, to explain his filming methods on this adaptation of the award-winning novel by David Storey.[3]
Steven Woodcock grew up in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He lived in Berry Brow and Milnsbridge, the latter an industrialized suburb to the west of Huddersfield centre where British Prime Minister Harold Wilson grew up.[2] Many scenes in his films were shot in and around where he once lived. Milnsbridge's imposing railway viaduct and part of Market Street are seen at the start of Between Two Women as are mills and factory chimneys (since the filming the mills have been converted into apartment blocks). Other locations in Huddersfield have included Fartown, Longwood, Beaumont Park, Holmfirth, Linthwaite, Marsden and a mill at Newsome. Scenes were also shot in nearby Bradford, Halifax and Keighley.
Woodcock attended Berry Brow Junior School as a boy, then Newsome High School and Sports College between 1972 and 1977 and Greenhead College from 1977 to 1979.[4] He then went to Batley School of Art and Design and Manchester University where he studied industrial design. His father had died when he was a boy, so his mother brought him up alone until she died when he was 20.[5]
