A late August screening of Semolina Pilchard, a British crime-comedy set in Liverpool, will continue to highlight a local creative connection for Newtown audiences. The film follows Clara Reynolds (Sarah Louise Chadwick), the estranged daughter of Gerry (Joe McGann), a terminally ill gangster who summons his daughter home. Clara quickly becomes entangled in a complex inheritance conflict with her younger sister, a determined and jealous woman named Danika (Sophia Leanna Kelly) who is convinced Gerry plans to leave everything to Clara despite the older sibling trying to leave everything behind five years earlier.

Co-Writer and Co-Producer Daina Smith said Clara goes home “and there is a lot of drama, and a lot of cleaning up to do, and all sorts of things going on with the impending death of her dad.”

Smith lives on Main Street in Newtown. She spoke with The Newtown Bee ahead of the regional premiere of Semolina Pilchard, last month in Ridgefield.

On Sunday, August 30, Smith will be at Edmond Town Hall for an exclusive conversation following another screening of the film. That program will begin at 4 pm.

Attendees will hear firsthand how the local screenwriter helped bring the internationally produced feature to life. Smith will share behind-the-scenes stories, insights into the writing and production process, and answer audience questions during a live Q&A.

Semolina Pilchard has a run time of two hours, four minutes. It is not rated. The film was released in April in the UK.

Writing for Screen Critix, Carl Burgess called Semolina Pilchard — named for the nonsense lyrics found within the Beatles song “I Am the Walrus” — “a loud, chaotic, hilarious, heartfelt love letter to Liverpool that firmly establishes [Mike] Clarke as one of the most exciting independent filmmakers currently working in the UK.”

Burgess’s review also notes the film is “packed with eccentric characters, sharp dialogue, criminal mishaps, emotional undercurrents, and enough jokes to keep the two hour runtime flying by. And that runtime genuinely does fly. There is always something happening, always another character entering the madness, another subplot colliding with another, another ridiculous plan going disastrously wrong.”

Smith calls the film “a fun, crazy, wild movie. It is a very classic dark British comedy-slash-gangster film.”

Tickets for the screening at Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street, are $23 and available through edmondtownhall.org.