A FILM director will premiere her latest action thriller in the city today.

Vicky Jewson, who was born in Oxford, will show the film Born of War for the first time publicly in the UK at the Phoenix Picturehouse in Walton Street.

The film, which features various locations in the county, tells the story of a woman who struggles after her parents are murdered and finds out her real dad is a warlord.

Director and co-writer Mrs Jewson, who moved to Burford three years ago, said: “We made it in Oxford, I am Oxford born and bred, our offices are in Oxford and Oxford University features in it too. It was a community-made project.”

The film, co-written with Mrs Jewson’s husband Rupert Whitaker, is already on release in other countries, including Japan and America.