A feature film shot entirely in the Valleys will be shown on streaming services like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime.

While most films have a budget of millions and teams of thousands, Offworld is a little different.

Director Terry Cooper, from Ystrad Mynach, had always wanted to direct his own film. So along with a small team of volunteers he managed to raise £10,000 from crowd funding and started filming in the Valleys.

Terry in action

Originally Terry had planned to just release the film on YouTube, but now has a very exciting propostion.

They are in advanced talks with an American distribution company called High Octane Pictures who are based in Los Angeles to take the film to a much wider audience.

The sci-fi film was shot in just six days in April 2017 in the South Wales valleys and sees a group of humans crash land and have to survive a journey across an alien planet.

As well as the release on streaming services, it will also be screened at selected cinemas in Wales - dates and venues to be confirmed.

"The original plan was going to be put it on Youtube," said Terry. "But this distributor will be able to get the film onto streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu as well as with DVD distributors and the Sci-fi channel."

Footage from the film Offworld
The spaceship crash
Navigator Kris Eriksen played by Tom Ingham in Offworld

The post production process has been incredibly tough. Having to rely on volunteers for highly technical processes like applying CGI has been a real challenge.

Terry added: "A hard part is filming in a public space over a short period of time. There were things like pylons in the background or occasionally a bird would fly past. It was supposed to be alien planet.

"It was a warm day in April and there were people were coming to see what we were doing.

"We would ask people politely if they could move and they did. Except one guy who was walking is dog and refused. We didn’t have time to wait as we only had six days to film. He ended up in two of the shots but we have managed to remove him so his little cameo and protest is over!"

Footage from the film

Reflecting on what they had achieved Terry added: "I saw someone asking for £15,000 for a seven-minute film recently. It underlines how creative and ambitious we were. I hope it inspires other people to create feature length films."