Yardie (film)

Yardie
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Directed by	Idris Elba
Screenplay by	Brock Norman Brock Martin Stellman
Based on	Yardie by Victor Headley
Produced by	Gina Carter Robin Gutch
Starring	Aml Ameen Shantol Jackson Stephen Graham Fraser James Sheldon Shepherd Everaldo Creary
Cinematography	John Conroy
Edited by	Justine Wright
Music by	Dickon Hinchliffe
Production companies	StudioCanal BBC Films Screen Yorkshire British Film Institute Warp Films Island Records Amazon Prime Video
Distributed by	StudioCanal
Release dates	20 January 2018 (2018-01-20) (Sundance) 31 August 2018 (2018-08-31) (United Kingdom)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	$1.5 million[1]

Yardie is a 2018 British crime drama film directed by Idris Elba, in his feature directorial debut, and starring Aml Ameen, Shantol Jackson, Stephen Graham, Fraser James, Sheldon Shepherd, and Everaldo Creary. It is based on the novel of the same name by Jamaican-born writer Victor Headley. It was screened in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.^[2]