The documentary "One Mile Away" follows two rival gang leaders, Shabba Thompson and Dylan Duffus, who call a truce and campaign for peace in the violent gang areas of Aston, Birmingham. It was directed by Penny Woolcock and produced by James Purnell. The documentary raised over £21,000 in funding from sources like Kickstarter, Channel 4, Barrow Cadbury Trust, and Creative England to cover costs of transporting cast members, renting screening equipment for youth centers, and hiring staff. Logistical challenges included ensuring youth centers had proper projection equipment, providing security for filming in dangerous areas, and addressing permissions and blurring for individuals filmed without consent.

1. ONE MILE AWAY

2. BRIEF OVERVIEW AND PLOT
One Mile Away is a documentary about two miles north-east of Birmingham city
center, in an area of Aston known for violence among gangs and drug dealers, six
gang members are gathered in a building. The older members – 'elders’ – are doing
what they have always done, which is teaching young members how to follow in
their paths, imparting their knowledge to the next generation. It’s Directed by Penny
Woolcock and produced by James Purnell, the former Labour cabinet minister, it
charts what happens after two rival gang members – Matthias 'Shabba’ Thompson,
33, from the Johnsons and Dylan Duffus, 31, from the Burger Bar Boys – take the
decision to call a truce and campaign for peace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsqjZy4HnC0

3. FINANCE
The documentary ‘One Mile Away’ raised £21,033 from kick start.
• The average return train fare from Birmingham to London is £50. Every small contribution can help
towards the travel costs of bringing the cast of the film to a school or youth center near you. They will
have had to make more than one trip to Birmingham, this means they spent quite a lot of money on train
fair for the characters, which was a must because to drive there they would have had to pay for petrol
and parking.
• Some youth centers don't have screening equipment and so for £100 we can hire a van to take
our portable screen and projector to any location in the UK to set up a special screening.
• To make the event engaging for younger audiences we want to utilize the musical experience of our
cast. £500 would contribute towards hiring sound equipment to host a local open mic night at a youth
center on the night of a film screening.
• To plan all of these events we need a coordinator to keep everything in check. £1000 would contribute
towards the salary of our Impact Producer. Overall, all though they
• The film funded by: Channel 4, Barrow Cadbury Trust, Creative England, and Development grants from
influence film fund. They needed all these companies because otherwise they wouldn’t have had enough
money to produce the documentary.

4. LOGISTICAL CONSIDERATIONS SUCH AS
DEADLINES AND RECOURSES
Some of the youth centers they went to during filming didn’t have projectors or
portable screens, so they had to buy these, and they were about £100 each. They
would have also needed to buy security and bullet proof vests, just incase they got
under attack as they were filming gangs, and they were in quite a dangerous place
during filming. They didn’t pay for locations as One Mile Away is a documentary,
they just filmed the gangs whilst walking around Birmingham. The producers had to
think about people who was in the scenes that they didn’t have permission for to be
filmed, and they have to blur them out due to security reasons.