A new feature film has been shot in Basingstoke and is set to get its first sneak preview at the towns next film festival.
Robert Moir, 21, from Hatch Warren, Basingstoke, has completed making his film 'A Darker Shade of Red'.
He told the Observer that the film had been a five-year project for him. He started writing the script with Harriet Brown when he was 16, and it has taken until now to finally complete it.
He said: “Despite planning it for so long, I was was one day away from not filming it. I kept thinking that someone, somewhere, did not want us to make it.”
“Finally I just got the camera, the cameraman and cast and just went and shot it.”
The film is due to show its first promo at Red Carpet Screenings Short Film Festival on Friday September 24.
The story revolves around an estranged father trying to find his missing daughter in a town overrun by powerful gangs.
The dark, gritty thriller was shot entirely in and around Basingstoke where Robert was born.
Robert says that his film was helped by the emerging underground film scene in Basingstoke.
He said: “There is definitely a buzz around here which wasn't there a few years ago, now there is a film making community, a collective in Basingstoke Town.
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