Jackdaw Film Premiere at Showcase Cinema Teesside

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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