The stars and director of the crime thriller filmed in Hartlepool and the Tees Valley attend its debut UK screening
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00:07 I didn't know you were back from the army.
00:10 No one does.
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00:16 Okay Jamie, so what's it like to have the premiere here?
00:19 Oh I mean this is amazing. For me it was like my local cinema growing up.
00:23 We used to come here and it was like a big night out to come to Stockton to watch a movie.
00:28 So to take over this and have our premiere felt like the right thing to me.
00:31 And why did you set the movie in this area?
00:34 I'm from the North East. I grew up around here.
00:36 All the places we shot here were places I used to walk as a kid, mess around on my BMX and stuff.
00:41 And it's like always kind of created this atmosphere that I wanted to put in the film.
00:45 So it just felt right to come here and do a film.
00:48 And whereabouts in Hartlepool did you film?
00:51 In Hartlepool we shot a few places. We were down Brenda Road at the big factories.
00:55 And then sort of like there, from there we went down to Seal Sands and stuff.
00:58 So we were more based out of Hartlepool as our base in the film studios.
01:02 But we shot bits and pieces here and there and obviously in Hartlepool Headland we shot there as well.
01:08 Can you tell me what attracted you to the story?
01:11 I think the tone of the film really.
01:17 Like the slummer and the idea of it being such a really cinematic, contemporary thing.
01:24 And also I think Jamie had written such a triumphant, vibrant and propulsive script.
01:40 It felt like he was going to make something really quite exciting.
01:51 And do you know, I know you've filmed in Hartlepool before. What was it like to be back?
01:57 Yeah, really nice to be back. I remember the film was just here.
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