One Mile Away

Filmmaker Penny Woolcock charts the attempts by two warring gangs in inner-city Birmingham, the Burger Bar Boys (B21) and the Johnson Crew (B6), to bring peace to their neighbourhoods. It follows Penny Woolcock's hip-hop musical `1 Day', which was partly informed by these postcode wars. A demonstration of how film and the determination of ordinary people can transform entrenched social problems. … MORE