5mFormer youth worker explores reality of child exploitation in debut film County Lines
Jackie Long
Social Affairs Editor and Presenter
They are children drawn into a dangerous, sometimes deadly world of drugs, crime and violence. County Lines is a new film which explores the reality of child criminal exploitation in all its grimness.
Fiction perhaps, but absolutely rooted in real life, as filmmaker Henry Blake draws on more than a decade’s experience on the frontline of youth work.
County Lines is released in cinemas and digitally on BFI Player and Curzon Home Cinema on 4 December.