Billy Elliot Billy Elliot Billy Elliot is a 2000 British dance drama film about a boy becoming a professional ballet dancer. It is set in North East England during the 1984–85 coal miners' strike. It was produced by Greg Brenman and Jon Finn, music composed by Stephen Warbeck, co-produced by BBC Films, Tiger Aspect Pictures and Working Title Films, distributed by Universal Pictures and Focus Features, written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry. The film stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, an aspiring dancer dealing with the negative stereotype of the male ballet dancer, Gary Lewis as his coal miner
Billy Elliot been accepted, coinciding with the end of the miners' strike, and he leaves home to attend. In 1998, 25-year-old Billy takes the stage to perform the Swan in Matthew Bourne's "Swan Lake", as Jackie, Tony, and Michael watch from the audience; his father is visibly moved by the performance. Lee Hall developed "Billy Elliot" from his play "Dancer", which premiered as a rehearsed reading in 1998 at the Live Theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne. He was heavily influenced by photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's book "Step by Step", about a dancing school in nearby North Shields. Writing in 2009, Hall said that