Neil Atkinson is a Liverpool-based writer, broadcaster and film producer. He is the host, Content Manager, and one of the main writers and business developers behind online football and culture magazine The Anfield Wrap which has had more than 28 million podcast downloads worldwide. Atkinson has presented sell-out shows of The Anfield Wrap in London, New York, Toronto, Melbourne, Ireland and Scandinavia, as well as on stage at the Sound City Festival in Liverpool. Atkinson co-wrote and co-produced the film Native, which had a theatrical release in the UK in 2018 and won the feature film award at the 2016 Boston science fiction festival. Described as "smart" and "elegant" by Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian. Kim Newman in Empire magazine described it as "ambitious, unusual and thought-provoking". In The Times, Ed Potton wrote that it was a "script full of promise, with provocative things to say about empathy, obedience and individualism".