Low-budget film popular 1992 film "El Mariachi", in which the director Robert Rodriguez was unable to afford second takes due to the $7000 budget. Despite this, it was a success both critically and commercially, and started the young director's career. Some of the most critically acclaimed micro-budget films were by the Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, his most famous being "The Apu Trilogy" (1955–1959). The first film in the trilogy, "Pather Panchali" (1955), was produced on a shoestring budget of Rs.200,000 ($3000) using an amateur cast and crew. The three films are now frequently listed among the greatest films of all time.
Paul Kelly (film maker) completed a six-year documentary about Felt, Denim and Go-Kart Mozart front man Lawrence entitled "Lawrence Of Belgravia" which premiered at the 2011 London Film Festival. Kelly and Saint Etienne collaborated again on "How We Used to Live" (2014), which has been described as "a cherishable, woozy-hazy trawl of London from postwar days to yuppiedom". Paul Kelly (film maker) Paul Kelly (born 23 July 1962 Farnborough, Hampshire) is an English film director, musician, photographer and designer. The son of an RAF fighter pilot - he took up flying aged fourteen, making his first solo flight on his seventeenth birthday. However, a