Terence Davies

Terence Davies (born 10 November 1945) is an English screenwriter and film director.
He was born into an English working-class family in Liverpool, England. After years of low-level jobs he began studies at Coventry School of Drama in 1971 and later at the National Film School. He wrote a screenplay for his first short film, "Children". This would be the first of three short films that are known as "The Terence Davies Trilogy".
He is best known as the writer and director of films based on his own life, including "Distant Voices, Still Lives" (1988), "The Long Day Closes" (1992) and "Of Time and the City" (2008). He has made films based on novels, such as "The House of Mirth" (2000) and "The Neon Bible" (1995). His films "A Quiet Passion" (2016) and "Benediction" (2021) are based on the lives of poets Emily Dickinson and Siegfried Sassoon.