Take your seats for short film screening (From Bucks Free Press)

Take your seats for short film screening

4:12pm Monday 16th July 2001

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IT WAS quite an event when a film crew arrived in Erith two years ago to make a short film.

The town square was turned into a film set by Greenwich film company Closed Circuit Films as it made the film, also called Closed Circuit using actors and local people.

Now, at last, people will be able to see the film.

The company is holding a special screening for everyone involved at the National Film Theatre on the south Bank, on July 21.

It will be shown in Cinema One at 11.30am and admission is free. People will have to be on time because there is only one showing, and the film lasts only 12 minutes.

The filming was done in September 1999 and nearly 150 people answered an appeal in the News Shopper for extras.

Director Chloe Thomas said: “Because there were so many people involved, it would be too difficult to try and track them down and invite them personally.

“But we would love them to come and see it.”

The Stranglers lead singer Hugh Cornwell took the lead role in the film, playing a police inspector investigating a bomb blast in a shopping precinct.

The bomber dies in the blast, and as the policeman sifts through CCTV footage of the centre on the day, he comes across the bomber, but also the young waitress who kisses him before his death, and the officer begins to unravel another story.

Chloe is a BBC director who also works for Channel 4 and the camera crew used was also from the BBC.

She chose Erith as the film location because of its atmospheric 1960's feel.

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