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Contents Out Of Control Press release . 2 Cast and production credits . 4 Interviews Dominic Savage, Director/Writer . 5 Ruth Caleb, Producer . .7 Tamzin Outhwaite plays Dean’s mum, Shelley Richards . 9 David Morrissey plays Mike . 12 Introducing Bronson Webb, Danny Young, Akemnji Ndifornyan and Leo Gregory . 14 Out Of Control Press release Out Of Control The first BBC ONE drama to scoop top film prize at the Edinburgh International Film Festival Out Of Control, winner of the prestigious inside, it’s not long before the two of them are Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature in trouble again. Dean is arrested for being in a Film at the Edinburgh Festival, is Dominic stolen car, and is given two months in a young Savage’s third film about the lives of young offenders’ institution. people in Britain today. BBC One’s first wholly improvised drama, transmitting in September as Meanwhile, when Sam (Leo Gregory) plans an part of BBC One’s Cracking Crime Day, Out armed robbery on a South London estate, his Of Control stars four relative newcomers mate Danny (Akemnji Ndifornyan) goes along opposite Tamzin Outhwaite and David with it. But later they’re arrested and are each sent Morrissey. The story follows the lives of three down for two years. Once inside, Sam becomes a teenagers sent to a young offenders’ institution bully and joins in the ritualistic taunting of the and how the experience affects them. weaker, new inmates. He targets Dean, who has become weak and vulnerable - and although the Jane Tranter, BBC Controller of Drama prison officer, Mike (played by David Morrissey) Commissioning, says: “Out Of Control follows tries to help Dean and keep an eye out for him as in the tradition of BBC One’s Warriors and Care, much as he can, it ends in tragedy. tough films tackling controversial issues for a mainstream channel. This new project from the Lorraine Heggessey, Controller of BBC One, acclaimed, award-winning film-maker Dominic says: “It’s absolutely the role of BBC One to Savage, who previously brought his unique commission challenging contemporary drama vision to BBC Two, gives his work a wider such as Out Of Control, and to schedule it in audience, and demonstrates BBC One’s prime time for a mainstream audience. I am commitment to highly original and innovative proud to have Dominic Savage working on BBC mainstream drama.” One and to have his drama as part of this autumn’s line up.” Out Of Control, which is produced by Ruth Caleb, follows Dominic Savage’s two previous Out Of Control also stars Jamie Foreman films for BBC Two, Nice Girl (for which he won as another warder, Jim; and Frank Harper the Bafta Award for Best New Director) and as Sam’s dad. The executive producer is When I Was 12 (which won a Bafta Award for David M Thompson. Best Single Drama), both of which were made with unknown actors improvising dialogue in Dominic Savage, who carried out several workshop sessions before filming began. months of extensive research in young offenders’ institutions across the UK, says: Dean (Danny Young), sensitive and intelligent, “When you go into these institutions, there are lives with his mum (Tamzin Outhwaite) on an those who need to be aggressive from the off, estate out of town. They’re very close and she’s otherwise they become victims themselves; and doing everything she can to ensure that he there are those, some of whom are as young as doesn’t end up like the other kids on the estate. 15, who are extremely vulnerable to them. Out But when Dean’s friend, Charlie-boy (played by Of Control is about the criminal mentality, it’s Bronson Webb), is released from his latest spell about what’s going on inside their heads.” Out Of Control 2 Press release David Thompson, Head of BBC Films, says: “Out Of Control follows on from Dominic’s Edinburgh Film Festival – Reviews last two extremely successful collaborations for BBC Films, Nice Girl and When I Was 12. Screen International: He makes powerful stories come to life with total realism, taking actors right to the edge, drawing them out in a remarkable way.” “Out Of Control confirms writer/director Dominic Savage as the standard bearer for Ruth Caleb’s recent credits include Dominic the raw, social realist traditions established Savage’s Nice Girl and When I Was 12, and and refined by Ken Loach and the late Last Resort (also for BBC Films), all of which Alan Clarke.” followed a similar process of development and production. In addition, Caleb also produced Care, which recently won the Prix Italia for Best “A largely improvised story intended for Drama (singles) as well as the BAFTA Award transmission on UK TV station BBC One next for Best Single Drama. At the same awards, month, the film completes a trilogy of dramas Caleb received the Alan Clarke Award for by Savage portraying the wasted lives and Creative Contribution to Television. bleak futures facing a generation of young Britons. An intensely emotional piece, Out Of BBC One’s Cracking Crime Day aims to dispel Control paints a powerful vision of youngsters the myths and give a true picture of crime who have rejected the values of a society that across the UK. See TV listings for a full schedule has nothing to offer them and no way to reach of programmes, which include: Don’t Have them. Danny Young is entirely believable as the Nightmares; To Catch A Thief; Anatomy Of A baby-faced teenager singled out as a victim, and Crime; The Philadelphia Experiment; and You Leo Gregory brings a lacerating, De Niro-like The Judge. conviction to the psychotic bully Sam. Meanwhile, Tamzin Outhwaite’s gutsy performance as the loving, care-ravaged mother should allow her to take further strides forward from her former status as TV soap star.” Allan Hunter, Screen International August 2002 Out Of Control 3 Cast and production Out Of Control Starring in order of appearance Tamzin Outhwaite as Dean’s mum David Morrissey as Mike Jamie Foreman as Jim Frank Harper as Sam’s dad and introducing Danny Young as Dean Bronson Webb as Charlie-boy Leo Gregory as Sam Akemnji Ndifornyan as Danny Directed by Dominic Savage Produced by Ruth Caleb Executive Producer: David M Thompson Out Of Control 4 Interviews Dominic Savage Director/Writer believed that they could make a difference. However, in some cases, there were those who felt that they were fighting a losing battle. “I talked to lots of the boys and that made me feel even more that this was a film that I had to make. It’s always that way for me – the inspiration and information comes from the mouth of those whose story you want to tell. “What struck me was the realisation that what was more frightening was not life in prison but life on the streets. I wanted to balance the two in the film – I wanted the audience to be frightened by both and realise what the attitude was like on the streets and what the options are, as well as seeing what happens on the inside.” Dominic Savage with Tamzin Outhwaite As well as visiting some of the UK’s best-known Director Dominic Savage is renowned for his young offenders’ institutions, Dominic’s research true-to-life portrayals of young people in Britain took him to some of the country’s toughest today, following the success of both Nice Girl estates, too. “In some places, the choices are and When I Was 12, and it was his work on the that you are either a criminal or you become a latter which gave him a glimpse of young victim, and most people would rather be a offenders and spurred him to make Out Of criminal than a victim. That’s rather depressing, Control. “My experience on When I Was 12, if that’s all you’ve got in your life. which touched on youth crime, gave me an insight into that area. It seemed like the obvious “There’s a whole generation and class and subject to tackle next. culture of kids who’ve got no values and they don’t know what’s good or bad. They’ve had no “What the film tries to encapsulate is different guidance and so this culture of crime seems to kinds of stories at the extremes. Out Of Control be getting worse.” shows the one who wasn’t bad but who got sucked into it and the good boy who realises the During his research, Dominic discovered that up error of his ways.” to 80 per cent of boys who leave prison re-offend – leaving some 20 per cent who succeed in Dominic, who graduated from the National Film making something of their lives. “Some of the School in 1991, undertook months of research prison officers tell me that they were doing the for the film, including visits to young offenders’ job for that 20 per cent,” he says. institutions at Huntercombe, Feltham, Cardiff and Stoke, where he met both the youngsters One of the most touching cases he came across and the prison officers. It proved to be a real was that of a 16-year-old lad who was inside for eye-opener. “All the people in the film are an armed robbery. “He ended up in Feltham but I expression of what I found – good and bad. met him when he came out. There was a real With the prison officers there were those who positivity about him.

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