Off the Rails

Rikke Brewer and best friend Aiden Knox, working-class teenagers, hone their gravity defying UrbEx and Parkour skills, dreaming of escape from boring Guildford.

Year: 2022

Director: Peter Day

Producers: Peter Day, Rob Alexander, Grant Keir (Faction North)

Executive Producers: Sylvia Stevens, Bizzy Day, Mark Thomas

Editor: Rob Alexander

Contributors: Rikke Brewer, Aiden Knox

Sales: Journeyman Pictures

Screen Scotland funding: The film accessed £10,000 through Screen Scotland’s Film Development and Production Fund to support Faction North to deliver this Scottish, English and Welsh co-production.


Synopsis

Rikke Brewer and best friend Aiden Knox, working-class teenagers, hone their gravity defying UrbEx and Parkour skills, dreaming of escape from boring Guildford. Behind the spectacular stunts and millions of online ‘likes’ lies a darker story — a friend’s traumatic death and fragile mental health — threatening to rip their lives apart.

Rikke Foreground & Aiden Background / Ⓒ Hector PittRikke and Aiden. Credit: Hector Pitt 

More information

World Premiere: Off the Rails will premiere at Sheffield Doc Fest 2022.

Rikke & Aiden Garden Bench Post-Fight (OTR ScreenGrab) / Ⓒ Faction FilmsStill from Off the Rails. Credit: Faction Films