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Small budget. Big Ideas.

Though his first film, Monsters, is yet to go on general release, Gareth Edwards has already made a name for himself as the anti-Oliver Twist of movies.

Where other directors want more money, he was forever asking producers to spend less. Has the age of austerity found its film-maker?

Set in a post-apocalyptic Central America, Monsters is a mix of love story, road movie and creature feature.