Chicken Town + in-person Q&A

In a dead-end town in the East of England, a young man is released from prison after serving time for a crime he didn't commit. He returns home looking for answers only to become embroiled in a scheme to sell a crop of cannabis grown by an elderly neighbour on his allotment.

Join us for in-person Q&A after the screening.

From director Richard Bracewell (Bill, The Gigolos) Chicken Town tells the story of two schoolfriends (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.

Alongside actor Graham Fellows, the comedic mastermind behind ‘John Shuttleworth’ and ‘Jilted John’ and cameos from comedians Laurence Rickard (Horrible Histories, Ghosts) and Alistair Green (Ted Lasso, Flowers), 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.

A story about the contradictions of modern family life; a film with a heart and a conscience. If Greta Gerwig and Shane Meadows had a love-child it might resemble Chicken Town.