Editing Michael Winterbottom (section)

==Early television career==
Winterbottom's television directing career began in 1989, with a documentary about [[Ingmar Bergman]] and an episode of the children's series ''[[Dramarama (TV series)|Dramarama]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bennett |first=Bruce |date=2014 |title=The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom: Borders, Intimacy, Terror |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=9780231850537 |edition=1st |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5utkAgAAQBAJ&q=dramarama |access-date=June 21, 2023}}</ref> He followed this with the 1990 television film ''Forget About Me'', starring [[Ewen Bremner]], which followed two British soldiers who become involved in a love triangle with a young Hungarian hitch-hiker on their way to Budapest for a [[Simple Minds]] concert. It was his first collaboration with writer [[Frank Cottrell-Boyce]]; they would go on to make six more films together.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Dawtrey |first=Adam |url=https://www.variety.com/ac2006_article/VR1117933481?nav=news&categoryid=1983&cs=1 |title=Phantom scribe gets BIFA nom |magazine=Variety |access-date=2012-07-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060628223757/http://www.variety.com/ac2006_article/VR1117933481?nav=news&categoryid=1983&cs=1 |archive-date=28 June 2006 }}</ref> Shot on 16 mm film, it was shown at a few European film festivals.<ref name="Michael Winterbottom">{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/1997/film/news/michael-winterbottom-1117792709/ | title=Michael Winterbottom | date=15 January 1997 }}</ref> In 1991, he directed episodes of various TV shows, including the four-part children's series ''[[Time Riders (TV series)|Time Riders]]'' and an episode of ''[[Boon (TV series)|Boon]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bennett |first=Bruce |date=2014 |title=The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom: Borders, Intimacy, Terror |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=9780231850537 |edition=1st |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5utkAgAAQBAJ&q=boon |access-date=June 21, 2023}}</ref> In 1992, he directed the television film ''Under the Sun'' about a young British woman travelling in Greece, starring [[Kate Hardie]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7b9abfea |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181230142821/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7b9abfea |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 December 2018 |title = Under the Sun (1992) {{!}} BFI}}</ref> It was shot on Super 16 film, and gained him further attention.<ref name="Michael Winterbottom"/> In 1993, he directed an episode of the [[Inspector Alleyn Mysteries]]; ''Love Lies Bleeding'', a television film written by [[Ronan Bennett]] about a convicted IRA member on a 24-hour home leave from prison in Belfast;<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1098897/index.html | title=BFI Screenonline: Love Lies Bleeding (1993) }}</ref> and  ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic (Cracker)|The Mad Woman in the Attic]]'', the pilot of [[Jimmy McGovern]]'s mystery series ''[[Cracker (British television)|Cracker]]''.<ref name="Cracker - The Mad Woman in the Attic">{{cite book|last1=Dunn|first1=Josephine M|title=Jimmy McGovern's Cracker|date=20 March 2018|publisher=KDP|isbn=9-7819-8062-5452}}</ref> He next directed the 1994 mini-series ''[[Family (1994)|Family]]'', written by [[Roddy Doyle]], the author of ''[[The Commitments (novel)|The Commitments]]''. It was a success in Ireland and led to a debate there about the depiction of both the working classes and spousal abuse in the media.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Linehan|first=Hugh|date=18 May 2019|title=Roddy Doyle's Family stands up as a classic 25 years later|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/roddy-doyle-s-family-stands-up-as-a-classic-25-years-later-1.3894485|access-date=2021-04-06|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|language=en}}</ref> His final early television project was a 1995 episode of the documentary series ''[[Cinema Europe|Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood]]'', focusing on Scandinavian silent cinema.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/493675/credits.html | title=BFI Screenonline: Winterbottom, Michael (1961-) Credits }}</ref>