The movie was filmed on a very small budget of £500,000 in which most of it was donated by the residents of the village. Despite it being an incredibly small movie, it in fact had its first showing at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. As well as that, it received its world premiere at Leicester Square in 2012 in which the cast and crew came in on tractors. The premiere did help the publicity of the movie because of the inclusion of the tractors. The movie was mainly shown in many different village halls across the country where it actually gained quite a bit of money. It in fact made profits from those than where it was shown in actual cinemas.
The director of the movie standing with one of the tractors used at the premiere
You studied this low-budget independent film to understand the challenges facing indie film making as well as to see how the BFI P&A fund was used to facilitate distribution.
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