Philophobia, a production by Stroud filmmaker Guy Davies, has been given a cinema release date.

The film will be showing in certain cinemas up and down the country from October 30, including at the Electric Picture House Cinema in Wotton-under-Edge.

Guy directed and wrote Philophobia, which won the Best Global Cinema award at the prestigious San Diego Film Festival last year.

The film also sold out six screenings at the festival.

Guy said: "I can’t wait to share this film with the people of Stroud. It’s made here by local people and set here. I’d love it if locals can get behind the film and the independent cinemas it’s screening in during this tough time for the arts.

"Tickets are on sale for Wotton already. Let’s sell it out!"

The production was shot in Stroud as well as in Randwick and Stonehouse.

The film’s title, Philophobia, is the fear of falling in love, which Guy says acts as a backdrop theme throughout.

“The film is about a boy and his friendship group in the last week of school on study leave,” said Guy.

“They cause some mischief and the lead character wants to be a writer and escape the town that he’s in.

“But he starts to realise that it’s less simple than he previously thought in that a lot of his friends are going to stay behind Including his love interest. I guess it’s like a battle between his ambition and his situation.”

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