Paul Hills' Boston Kickout, which screened last night in Prague, is one of the new wave of films from young British filmmakers. But he received virtually no support from the UK. The money came from Germany, Turkey and Russia, while the local council in Stevenage, where Hills grew up and where the film is set, attempted to ban him from filming there.

This tale of four youths growing up in one of the new towns created after the war as ideal places to live, has similarities with other recent British films such as Small Faces (which also screened here), and Trainspotting, which has taken US$18 million in the UK alone. Boston Kickout opens there in September, with a preview planned in Stevenage, if the council permits it.

Hills told Moving Pictures in Prague that his next film will be Raving Beauties, a comedy feature about a beauty contest in the north of England in 1976. Boston Kickout's John Simm will star alongside Georgina Cates, Frances Barber and Cathy Tyson. Hills is currently storyboarding the film, when not being introduced to the delights of Prague's Absinthe bars by programme director John Riley.

Nick Thomas

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