FILM fanatics got a chance to quiz an Oscar-winning producer following a special screening of his latest production.

Gareth Ellis-Unwin visited Weymouth Cineworld for a special screening of his latest film ‘Kajaki’.

Following the film, which has been nominated for a BAFTA, movie buffs got a chance to put their questions to Gareth, who moved to the town aged 18 and studied at Weymouth College.

The film is a British war movie depicting the real-life events of a harrowing incident involving a group of soldiers from the British Army’s Third Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, who were trapped in a minefield while stationed at the Kajaki Dam in Afghanistan in 2006.

Gareth, who won an Academy Award for his work on the hugely successful 2010 film The King’s Speech, said he was really pleased with the turnout.

He said: “It was a good turnout, great questions, and it’s just nice to be home.

“And it was nice to see people I’m not related to.”

He added: “It was good, I mean it was a high ambition to bring the film back here, and one of the reasons was my uncle served in the Navy and was actually credited at the end of the film because I credited everyone in my family who has done military service, and so I wanted him to see it in his home cinema.

“It’s an interesting film because people need that moment to decompress but a lot of the questions were around the authenticity and the integrity of the film but also there were fun ones, people recognising the humour.”

More than 70 people turned up to the screening, and during the Q and A with Gareth, described the film as ‘remarkable’, ‘moving’, ‘tremendous’ and one person said: “It was the best film I’ve seen in a very long time”.

Cineworld supervisor Brian Crump said: “It’s really good to have someone local do this kind of thing because it means a lot to Weymouth people.”

A final screening of the film will be shown at 8.10pm tomorrow evening at Cineworld Weymouth.