Chicken Town – Check out some images from the new British comedy

Photographer Credit: Jessica Sansom

Verve Pictures and Nodge Films have announced the new British comedy Chicken Town will be released in UK cinemas on 27 June. Directed by Richard Bracewell (Bill, The Gigolos), the film stars Graham Fellows (It’s Nice Up North) with young rising stars Ethaniel Davy, Amelie Davies, Ramy Ben Fredj, Hugo Carter, Everett Gaskin, and cameos from comedians Laurence Rickard (Horrible Histories, Ghosts) and Alistair Green (Ted Lasso, Flowers).

CHICKEN TOWN tells the story of two school friends (Ethaniel Davy and Amelie Davies) in a dead-end town in the East of England who join forces with a green-fingered grandad (Graham Fellows) to fence a shed of weed that the old man has accidentally grown on his allotment. Together they form an alliance of age and youth, an unlikely partnership of the forgetful and the forgotten.

Shot on location in the Fens and Norfolk, CHICKEN TOWN is both funny and heartwarming. Its array of entertaining characters, who have all somewhat lost their way in life, manage to find their own kind of family, discovering these relationships in places they least expect.

Photographer Credit: Jessica Sansom

Alongside celebrated actor Graham Fellows, the comedic mastermind behind ‘John Shuttleworth’ and ‘Jilted John’, the young characters in CHICKEN TOWN were cast for their feature-film debut from The Television Workshop in Nottingham, whose alumni include Bella Ramsey, Jack O’Connell and Vicky McClure.

Teaming youth with experience further, writer/director Richard Bracewell invited ten of his graduates from the Norwich University of the Arts film course he teaches, to crew on CHICKEN TOWN as assistants and trainees to Heads of Departments including Production Designer Simon Scullion (28 Days Later), and Make-Up Designer Julie Nightingale (Gladiator II).

Photographer Credit: Jessica Sansom

CHICKEN TOWN is writer/director Richard Bracewell’s fourth feature, following on from his Horrible Histories comedy Bill (2015), Cuckoo (2009) and The Gigolos (2006), and is co-written by Patrick Dalton, creator of the ‘Shit London’ toilet book series and produced by Tom Wood of Nodge Films. Richard describes the film as “a story about the contradictions of modern family life; a film with both a heart and a conscience. If Greta Gerwig and Shane Meadows had a love-child we hope it might resemble CHICKEN TOWN.”

Photographer Credit: Jessica Sansom

Photographer Credit: Jessica Sansom

Photographer Credit: Jessica Sansom

Photographer Credit: Jessica Sansom

Photographer Credit: Jessica Sansom

Photographer Credit: Jessica Sansom

Photographer Credit: Jessica Sansom

Photographer Credit: Jessica Sansom

Photographer Credit: Jessica Sansom