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1 Day filmed in Birmingham's urban slums. They had to have permission to film in certain areas, streets,estates & etc.

It's all about the ''beef'' between the Burger Bar Boys and Johnson Crew.

For a UK Gang film, looks serious!

Here's the trailer. Link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNXuZeShkVg

Views anyone?

This looks brilliant, class 'A piece of work just from the trailiers I've seen!! Bout fvcking time and tooo they came out with something like this, It shows the REAL UK GUTTER shit! Not no kidadulthood shit!

I like the fact that its VERTIGO FILMS producing, they done 'BRONSON' movie - Migth I add, a piece of class!

Cant wait to watch it, whens it in cinemas tho? I hear SEPTEMBER 4TH. Which means it came out yesterday?

Not actually sure tbh asI' sure I seen someting about it being in November, but it's definately coming out this year!!

Tell you what it does seem to me that London and Bham still seem 'active' and there still seems to be a hell of a lot more shootings and stabbings in both London and Bham than any other city in the UK. Strange how no meda attention about it.

I have been looking at other citie's and it's been quiet no nothing going on. Only real one's are Luton and Liverpool but they aren't even on the scale of London and Bham last year or this year. Seen a rise in shooting in the last month/couple of weeks in London wtf's going there seems mental, sure seen it about being olders no teens doing it any info?

It's amazing...seriously...and I only saw a rough cut.
It's out across the UK on November 6th.

It was screened last night in Bham.

Lnk - http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birm ... -24998310/








CONTROVERSIAL new film 1 Day – based on the real-life turf war between two rival Birmingham gangs – had its first screening in the city last night.

Billed as “Two Crews, One City, 24 Hours”, it’s an ambitious attempt to use non-actors from the streets of Handsworth to tell a day-long fictionalised account of real gang-life events that could have been sourced from any major city. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

The film has attracted heavy criticism in the city for encouraging impressionable youngsters to join criminal gangs and glamourising violence in an area hit by outbreaks.

The musical/rapping parts are the high points, with an opening that’s almost a comically-serious twist of Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.

Too much of the subsequent story, though, is either cliched (pursued man running through huge garden bumps into woman hanging up washing) or lacks real pace and a sense of drama that makes us really care about any of the characters.

Like other recent black British films, 1 Day is about a young man coming out of prison and there being consequences. Bad consequences.

Here, the freed man is Angel – played by Yohance Watson. He wants his £500,000 back from Flash (Dylan Duffus), who’s unfortunately now £100,000 short.

Pursued by a rival gang, the police, his granny and his three irate “babymothers” (women who’ve had a child by him), Flash then faces a race against time to pay up.

The film simply condenses years of chaos on the streets into 24 hours. It reflects the lack of education rather than inspiring viewers to seek some. And it delivers language that is, for the most part, scarcely intelligible.

Although Monica Ffrench is terrific as Flash’s grandmother, we need to see a lot more of her in the film, and her equivalents in real life, successfully laying down their own brand of domestic law.

The track called 'War Song' from the film has now a music video.

Here it is uploaded to youtube with real peeps from the streets of Handsworth Bham doing this, no actors! real real people! filmed in Handsworth Bham.

The War Song Link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PafJoeui ... o_response

http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content ... ture.shtml





WATCH VIDEO TRAILER >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mNRt2QkpOo&NR=1

WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO CALLED - WAR SONG >>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PafJoeui ... o_response




1 Day on Birmingham's inner city streets


Drugs, money, guns and gangs – no this isn’t a movie about the gangland streets of New York, it’s a movie about the streets of inner city Birmingham depicted by a new film called 1 Day due to be released on 6 Nov 2009. Watch clips from the movie.








2 crews, 1 city and 24 hrs

It’s already been compared to the American classic Boyz in the Hood and labelled as Britain’s first hip hop musical; 1 Day follows the violent life of two inner city gangs and claims to closely depict everyday life faced by some young people in UK inner cities.

Shot on location in and around Handsworth, the film's entire cast of actors are all from the local streets.

The controversial film, part funded by Screen West Midlands is due to be released in UK cinemas on 6 November 2009 and is already causing quite a stir. Concerns have been raised by Birmingham’s community that the film glamourises a gangster lifestyle of guns, crime and money, while also portraying black youths in a negative way.









Flash watches his back (picture from the film)
A day in the life of a hustler
Written and directed by Penny Woolcock, 1 Day follows 24 hours in the life of Flash, an inner-city hustler who’s day steadily gets worse when he finds out local gang leader Angel is being released from prison and wants his £500k he left with him for safekeeping. Short of the full amount Flash needs to find the money fast.






Gangland Birmingham (film picture)
Flash's day gets more and more intense as he's pursued by rival gang members, the police, his three irrate baby mothers and his grandmother.

Film maker Penny Woolcock says the film is a fiction not a documentary but it is telling a truth.







“Something terrible is happening to the young men in our inner cities. Boys are excluded from school; they then get bored and are easily drawn into street crime and drug dealing. Nobody cares that marginalised young black, Asian or white men are killing each other,” says Woolcock.







Angel confronts Flash (picture from the film)
Facing the real issues
So does a film like this glorify gang culture or does it reflect real life on the streets of Birmingham?

Various community organisations, West Midlands Police and community leaders were involved in a consultation process throughout the making of the film; ex-gang members and people currently involved in Birmingham gangs were also involved to ensure the film depicted real life on the streets.

Chairman of West Midlands Police Bishop Derek Webley (MBE) has been an anti-gun campaigner in Birmingham for several years.







Gangland Birmingham (picture from War song video)
Bishop Webley has seen the final version of the film and in an interview on BBC WM’s Saturday night Joe Aldred Show he talks about the complexities of young people wanting to get out of gangs and says 1 Day raises issues that people shouldn’t shy away from.







“The film raises some real issues that should cause us to think and give some deep consideration as to what we are going to do about it," he says.

“To immune ourselves from the reality that these things are not happening is to not face up to the reality that’s out there.”



Gun crime on Birmingham's streets
Guns and gangs in the city
Bringing Hope, Young Disciples and Mothers against Guns are just a few of the many Birmingham organisations that are working to solve the issues of knives, guns and gangs in the city also supporting those affected.

Thelma Perkins runs an organisation called Mothers in Pain - in an interview on BBC WM, Thelma commented on some of the issues raised by the film.








“I’m not saying that people should be in denial that this sort of thing is going on, but now the issues are going to be hyped up even more. What I would ask is, what is being done for the people who want to leave that sort of lifestyle and do something positive with their lives?"



http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content ... ture.shtml

When isit out NATIONWIDE.

Yet again, this looks pretty damn good!

Out November the 6TH throughout the UK but....

it's been banned in the whole of Birmingham and it's starting to be baned throughout the whole of the West Midland's because police have asked to, and now they have a reason as they've found out there's gonna be a shoot-out between the gang's as they cross path's at the cinema's in Birmingham.

This is causing some big controversy. Been see'ing load's of East London peep's hating on this film, quite funny . (fact for some jealousy as wishing it was filmed in their endz and some just hate stuff fact) Haterz - I hate!

Reason - for certain reason's for the film the director had and has chosen to change the street sign's/name's of the street's for obvious certain reason's but for some reason they could only get London street sign's and have used them on the street with E5 and a made up street name's put on the street's in Handsworth for the film and I don't know why they didn't even put a Birmingham post-code on the sign or blur the East-London post-code off it.


Just thought to clear that bit up, so as you all know on here it definately was filmed in Handsworth and other neighbouring area's throughout Brum. (Bit obvious tho when watching) lol.

So you lot down oth might have a hance to watch it but knowing the Police in Brum they'll contact the Met Police and say ban it in London too. lol

Cant wait!