''The Collaborators'' is a 2015 independent British

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drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...

feature film directed by Andrew Smith and Dan Ollerhead. It was written by

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director John Hardwick.

Plot

Two art students are forced to take off across country in a stolen taxi to evade the law after they are caught up in a dangerous mix of sex, drugs and violence.

Production

Funding for the film was partially provided by

University of Central Lancashire , mottoeng = "From the Earth to the Sun" , established = as Institution for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledgere-established 1992 (University status granted) , type = Public , chancellor ...

, as well support from

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backers. The Kickstarter campaign successfully reached its funding goal of £5000 on 5 March 2015. The film was shot in and around

Preston, Lancashire Preston () is a city on the north bank of the River Ribble in Lancashire, England. The city is the administrative centre of the county of Lancashire and the wider City of Preston local government district. Preston and its surrounding distri ...

."Lancashire students in focus for a feature film"
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'', 12 February 2015. Retrieved on 14 May 2015.

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* British independent films Films set in England 2015 independent films British female buddy films British crime drama films 2015 crime drama films 2010s female buddy films Girls with guns films 2010s drama road movies British drama road movies 2010s English-language films 2010s British films {{2010s-crime-drama-film-stub