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A digital film first - the world's first web-premiered feature film.

This is Not a Love Song

Written by Simon Beaufoy of The Full Monty fame and directed by Bille Eltringham, this taut thriller received it’s world premier online, making it the first feature film to ever be released exclusively on the internet - whilst simultaneously being streamed, digitally projected and 35mm projected at cinemas across the UK.

New Cinema Fund

"To be first in the world to make this happen for such a fantastic feature length thriller is exhilarating for everyone involved." says Paul Trijbits, head of the New Cinema Fund, which is responsible for this groundbreaking event.

"It demonstrates that films will soon be able to reach audiences in a completely new way and that by embracing the possibilities of the digital world, we are offering a whole new form of entertainment to new audiences."

Looking to break from traditional film making methods, every stage of This is not a Love Song was approached afresh. Cast before it was written (the film stars award-winner Kenny Glenaan and Michael Colgan), work shopped with the actors and filmed in only two weeks, this is truly a unique film.

The Story

Spike and Heaton are the unlikeliest pair: two loners who have found each other. Taciturn, competent, unreadable, Heaton is someone we are instinctively afraid of. In contrast his side-kick Spike is manic, child-like, unstoppable: someone we are instinctively afraid for.

But when Spike commits a terrible crime, Heaton decides to stand by him – an act of astonishing, almost foolhardy loyalty. There begins a chase across a vast Northern landscape across moors, rivers and dark woods, the increasingly exhausted fugitives being hunted not by the police but by a posse of farmers intent on revenge.

As exhaustion and hunger take hold, Heaton injures his leg and the roles are reversed. Suddenly Heaton needs Spike’s loyalty. But as the farmers close in, Spike is forced to decide whether to stand by his wounded friend or run for the safety of the city.

No ordinary chase film, This is Not a Love Song - named after the Public Image Limited track of the same name - is a love story caught in the body of a thriller.

Following limited theatrical exhibition of This is Not a Love Song check out the website for the film: www.thisisnotalovesong.com for details of other screenings.

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