Characters from the film One Mile Away went to different schools in Birmingham to promote their film and tell them about about the streets they walk on.

 

Tcast are on their way to the BAFTA's

Director: Penny Woolcock

One Mile Away is directed by award-winning filmmaker Penny Woolcock and charts the attempts by two warring gangs in inner city Birmingham, the Burger Bar Boys (B21) and the Johnson Crew (B6), to bring peace to their neighbourhoods.The film was funded by Channel 4, Barrow Cadbury Trust and Creative England, with development grants from PUMA and Fallon and finishing funds from Influence Film Fund. The distribution and social impact work of the film is being funded by Bertha Foundation and you, our backers. We're really pleased to be continuing our Adventures in Distribution with the release into the wild of Penny Woolcock's inspirational doc One Milt Away. The film follows a group of rival gang members in Birmingham during the intense summer of 2011, as they fight for a truce after the best part of 20 years of gang warfare.

Each of the characters present in the film have all been through a tragic experience in the 'hood life'. One of the characters was shot in the leg.

The main promotion for this film is free social networking sites. This is because they don't have enough money for marketing and advertisement.





With a independent film like they've not got many followers on Twitter or Facebook likes. If i compare this to Skyfall their distribution company was much larger therefore more was advertisement was made. Skyfall was everywhere, on bus billboards, toys were made from this film for it to gain publicity.