Mike Figgis is joined by producer Graham Smith at the Garden Cinema for a Q&A about the development and production of his first film, Stormy Monday, which opened the door to Hollywood, where Mike went on to make the celebrated Internal Affairs and Leaving Las Vegas.

Award-winning British director Mike Figgis’s first movie is a neon and rain-drenched noirish thriller set in Newcastle. The film stars Tommy Lee Jones, as the hawkish property developer/gangster Cosmo, trying to carve out a profitable chunk of the town; Melanie Griffith and a very young Sean Bean, as lovers Kate and Brendan who are drawn into a bitter turf war; and Sting as the ambivalent jazz club owner, Finney. All accompanied by a cool jazz soundtrack (written by Figgis), Stormy Monday is an evocative slice of late 80s British film-making.