{"id":720604,"date":"2026-07-31T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720604\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:59:11","slug":"birmingham-directors-self-made-crime-thriller-among-most-watched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720604\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham director&#8217;s self-made crime thriller among most watched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A director says it is &#8220;amazing&#8221; to see his independent film which took five years to make reach a streaming service&#8217;s top 10 within days of its release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The feature-length drama, This is Birmingham, tells the story of violence that erupts when a London gang moves in on a local crime family&#8217;s drug trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Originally intended to be a YouTube short, it was written and produced by Kay S. Ubhi, who grew up in the city, and also stars in the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After finding a distributor, it is now available to watch on Amazon Prime. &#8220;We&#8217;ve had a massive response to it\u2026 it&#8217;s been amazing, honestly&#8221;, Ubhi said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ubhi developed his craft though making short films, before taking on the full-length feature. He had seen other independent filmmakers experiencing success with crime dramas, and decided to explore the genre himself.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> &#8220;I thought I&#8217;m not going to wait for another opportunity because I might not get one. I&#8217;m going to create one for myself&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t really seek out external funding, I knew I could just do it myself,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I just tackled it one scene as a time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A lot of trial and error, just going out [and] having fun with it. If you have a passion you&#8217;ll go out and do it, regardless. It&#8217;s not about making money or anything like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A director says it is &#8220;amazing&#8221; to see his independent film which took five years to make reach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-720604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}