Filmmakers Mike Leigh and Elaine Proctor on their close friendship

Elaine Proctor and Mike Leigh met when she was a student at the National Film School and he was her teacher, and then, as fellow filmmakers, their friendship blossomed

Before I met Mike, I felt like I knew him. After watching Meantime – an unbelievably desperate film – I devoured everything he’d made. Then, in 1989, I was studying film when he walked through the door to teach us. He was the first person who thought I was funny at film school. Everybody else thought I was unbelievably earnest and anguished. I grew up in South Africa and there was a lot of personal upheaval I hadn’t yet got to grips with.

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