Mission: To involve young offenders in Brighton and Hove in a creative project
Funding: £22,000 from Brighton & Hove Youth Offending Team, Arts Council and Screen South
In a bid to offer young offenders in Brighton and Hove a creative project in which to immerse themselves, one of the city's youth offending team's social workers, Jo Bates, came up with the idea of making a feature film.
Bates already had an interest in filmmaking and had a number of contacts among local filmmakers. So, after securing funding for the project, work on the film started last summer.
Involving young offenders from the outset has been vital to its success. The 15 young people involved in the project came up with the original story idea and took part in a range of activities - from camera work to acting - during the year it took to complete the feature.
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