Having grown up in Lancashire, I did what so many others did – I moved away for University. After spending three years in Leeds and another in Edinburgh I returned home to my first graduate job in the arts, back in Preston. Such is the norm that those who’ve grown up in Lancashire feel the need to move out of it, down south, in order to succeed – it’s true of many different paths and sectors and definitely true of the arts. In a time when the South seems to dominate our nation’s movie-making, both on and off screen, now seems like the perfect moment to celebrate a bunch of Lancashire’s greatest contemporary directors. Six directors who remind us of the talent and contributions Lancashire has made to the recent national landscape of cinema…