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What a Night !

The premiere screening of Down & Out was a closed doors private screening at the Lucem House Cinema in St Helens on the evening of Tuesday 21st January 2025. A lovely community cinema with a warm feel, a full house was achieved a full month prior to the event. With several cast members attending, the premiere followed established broadcast format with an on-screen pre-roll as guests arrived, leading in to the film title heralded by a fanfare and a warm welcome by the film director as the pre-roll led into the actual screening of Down & Out.
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Following the screening of Down & Out, Assistant Director Peter Woodroffe led a cast panel of Heidi Robinson, Robbie Manners, Mark Haldor and Director Ian Bennett in an in-depth Cast & Crew Q&A where many aspects were laid bare in a fascinating behind the scenes snapshot on movie production, particularly a zero budget movie of this stature.
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Because some cast members had been unable to attend the premiere, the crew had set up an on-screen video link directly to Dale Grant. The link enabled Peter to question Dale, not just about his role of John in the film but also about other productions he had starred in for OMF.

With no wifi in the cinema, creating the video link was quite a challenge for OMF and Lucem techies but the Q&A went down extremely well and was warmly received.