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 of the alley between Embleton Street and Stavordale Street West. The structure was a temporary installment to hide Shrewsbury Street behind it. Fake snow is used once more. The cemetery in which Jenny Elliot is buried is in Lynemouth. School scenes were filmed in Langley Park Primary School, County Durham. Billy and Michael's cross country run takes place in Ellington. It is the River Lyne that is passing through to the next village, Lynemouth. The bridge sequence was filmed on the Tees Transporter Bridge across the River Tees. New Wardour Castle, near Tisbury, Wiltshire, doubled as London's Royal Ballet School.