- The film follows Bill Hayward who is released from prison and returns home to find his sons abandoned and living alone. - In an attempt to avoid his sons being taken into care, Bill reluctantly agrees to stay with them for a week to convince social services they are being cared for. - Through bonding with his younger son Jimmy, Bill starts to realize what he's been missing as a father. However, Jimmy gets into trouble that could send Bill back to prison if he intervenes.

1. WILD BILL
BY CHLOE O’HARE

2. TRAILER
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3. SUMMARY
• Out on parole after 8 years inside Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15 year old
sons abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play Dad, an uncaring
Bill is determined to move on. Although Dean the older boy has found a job and is doing his
best to be a father to his younger brother Jimmy, the arrival of Bill has brought them to the
attention of social services. With the danger of being put into care looming, Dean forces his
feckless Dad to stay by threatening to grass him up for dealing. If there's one thing Bill doesn't
want it's to go back to prison. He reluctantly agrees to stay for a week o help fool social services
that the boys are being cared for. Having never really grown up himself Bill quickly connects
with Jimmy and through this new bond starts to realize what he's been missing. He has a family,
a place in the world. He is a father. However, their happy family set up is short lived when Jimmy
gets into trouble with Bill's dangerous old cohorts. To sort it out would breach the terms of his
license and risk sending him back to Jail. Bill's next steps will show what sort of a Dad he wants
to be. A good one or a free one.

4. FILM MAKERS
Directed by
Dexter Fletcher
Writing Credits
Danny King
Dexter Fletcher
Produced by
Andrew Chapman (line producer)
Tim Cole (producer)
Vicky Deigman (executive producer)
Alan Jones (executive producer)
Sam Tromas (producer)
Writing Credits
Danny King
Dexter Fletcher
Music by
Christian Henson
Film Editing by
Stuart Gazzard
Casting by
Nina Gold
Costume Design by
Matthew Price
Production design by
Murray McKeown
Art Direction by
Paul Harvey
Alan Pearson

5. INTERVIEW
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6. PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, MARKETING AND
EXCHANGE
• The film is also available to anyone on demand through tablets and smart phones or downloads, which
may impact the way people watch the film as it will deter them from buying the traditional DVD and
instead watching the film on the go for example rather than sitting down at home to view it.
Streaming the film online is become increasingly popular amongst teenagers and young adults as their
is also an increasing number of platforms for them to do so, this is good for Wild Bill as their target
audience is probably people around the ages of 16-24. The DVD did not offer any added extras or
special features etc. so again lacks anything special that would make people want to go out and buy
the DVD or Blu-Ray, as it is again expensive for something that there are cheaper alternatives for like
streaming the film online.
• The film was shown at selected Cineworld Cinemas and the DVD realise was on the 23rd July 2012. The
reviews on the film; they got 5 stars on rotten tomatoes and the Guardian film review said “Why cant
all British crime drams be so well written and well acted, and have a splash comedy as confident as
this? Who knows? At any rate, in just under a years time, Fletcher and Creed-Miles had better make
sure their dinner jackets are back from the dry-cleaners.”

7. FILM POSTERS

8. PRODUCTION COMPANIES AND DISTRIBUTORS
Production Companies:
20ten Media
STS Media
Distributors:
Anchor Bay Entertainment (2012) (Australia) (DVD)
Film1 (2014) (Netherlands) (TV) (limited)
Koch Media (2013) (Netherlands) (DVD)
Sunfilm Entertainment (2014) (Germany) (DVD)
Sunfilm Entertainment (2014) (Germany) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
Universal Home Entertainment (2012) (UK) (DVD)
Universal Home Entertainment (2012) (UK) (Blu-ray) (DVD)

9. MERCHANDISE

10. NUMBERS AND AWARDS
Budget £700,000
Box office £60,430
BAFTA Awards 2013
Nominated
BAFTA Film Award Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Dexter Fletcher
Danny King
British Independent Film Awards 2011
Nominated
British Independent Film Award Best Achievement in Production
Chicago International Film Festival 2011
Nominated
Gold Hugo Best International Feature
Dexter Fletcher
London Critics Circle Film Awards 2013
Nominated
ALFS Award British Actor of the Year
Charlie Creed-Miles
Young British Performer of the Year
Will Poulter
Breakthrough British Filmmaker
Dexter Fletcher (co-writer/director)
Skip City International D-Cinema Festival 2012
Nominated
Grand Prize Dexter Fletcher
Writers' Guild of Great Britain 2012
Won
Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award Best First Feature-Length Film Screenplay
Danny King (writer)
Dexter Fletcher (writer)