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  An epic story scaled down to reflect the realities of modern life in the inner city. Bullet Boy combines style and substance to explore age-old themes of rebellion, rivalry and revenge from a unique northeast London slant.

The plot centres around 12-year-old Curtis and his older brother Ricky, two black boys growing up in Hackney, one of the most socially deprived areas in the country. It’s a volatile atmosphere where the slightest flare of emotions can set off a ripple of events that threatens to tear a family and a community apart.

 

     Fresh out of a Young Offenders Institute, Ricky is trying to stay on the straight and narrow but almost immediately gets caught up in a street clash involving his best friend Wisdom and a local bad boy.

This minor confrontation quickly escalates into a series of tit for tat incidents that spirals out of control with devastating consequences. It is only a matter of time before Curtis, eager to follow in his older brother’s footsteps, gets drawn into the cycle of violence that has claimed so many urban teenagers before their time.

 

  
 
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   Starring
Asher Walters, Luke Frazer, Claire Perkins and Leon Black

Directed and co-written
Saul Dibb Tottenham Ayatollah, Electric Avenue

Bullet Boy is written by long-term Hackney resident Catherine Johnson

Produced by Marc Boothe Nubian Tales and leading media arts lab B3 Media and multiple award-winner Ruth Caleb The Other Boleyn Girl, Tomorrow La Scala, Last Resort

Associate director of photography Marcel Zyskind Code 46, In This World

Editor Masahiro Hirakubo Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary and The Beach

   Bullet Boy is a BBC Films, UK Film Council New Cinema Fund and Shine Entertainment Limited production and is distributed in the UK by Verve Pictures

UK Film Council Website

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Winner of the DGB Award at Emden Film Festival 2005 (Audience Award)

Official Selection, Toronto Film Festival - Planet Africa

Selected for competition, Dinard Film Festival

Screening at London Film Festival