YOUNG film-makers will be making their big screen debut tomorrow after a three-year project.

The Grangetown Coyotes, aged nine to 17, will join an invited audience at Redcar's Regent Cinema to watch the premiere of Sub Zero tomorrow. It will also get a public screening at Cineworld, Middlesbrough, for a week from Thursday.

Members of the Coyote Youth Theatre attended Saturday sessions in the Grangetown Neighbourhood Centre, linking up with professional actors and production staff to complete the 70-minute drama, which grew from a short film made in 2002.

Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council's arts officer, Joanne Hodgson, said: "It has been a long journey and we've had our problems along the way, particularly over funding, but now we've reached our goal and everyone is thrilled that we're going to the premiere."

She added: "The storyline covers crime, anti-social behaviour and Big Brother solutions - it's a thriller, a love story, a document of life and what it offers to young people in the urban North-East of the 21st Century."

A thriller set in Middlesbrough if the near future, the film focuses on a mayoral candidate standing on a law and order ticket, who pledges to tag every young person with a surveillance bracelet.

He is backed by a cabal of businessmen, who stand to make a fortune from sales of the bracelet, but his daughter falls in love and his efforts to stop the relationship spiral out of control.

The council's cabinet member for culture, leisure and tourism, Councillor Dave Fitzpatrick, said: "We're delighted with the final production - and the positive impact it has had on everyone involved.

"Many of the cast have used it as a platform to study performing arts at local colleges and our aim now must be to attract long-term funding to maintain the provision of drama and film-making activities for the borough's talented young people."

The council's mayor, Councillor Peter Spencer, will attend the premiere, along with an invited audience.