YOUNG graduates are busy turning Swindon into a film set.

Aspiring director Ed Squires and his friends are churning out a film every month.

The 21-year-old, from Eldene, has already worked as a runner on upcoming James Bond movie The Quantum of Solace.

Ed said: “That was my first film position and it was incredible seeing actors on a daily basis. It was really great.”

The friends have already had work shown in Imax theatres and won the Swindon Preloader competition four years ago for a horror film called IT.

The group send their Swindon-based work to film festivals in the hope movie scouts will spot something special and sign them up.

Ed said: “We want to keep making films every month. We prefer making short films as they catch the audience’s attention a lot quicker and they don’t get bored.”

Ed’s fellow London Metropolitan University graduates Oliver Briginshaw, 22, and Julius Manipon, 21, from Covingham, are also involved.

Ed hopes to become a director or producer in the future, but realises it can be a long shot to break into the industry.

Currently Ed is getting occasional shifts as a runner on blockbuster Prince of Persia.

“It is often all a case of who you know,” he said.

“It is cut-throat but if you work hard and keep your head down you will be fine.”

His idol is French director Luc Besson, whose films include Leon and Nikita.

But Ed has already tasted success after being part of a crew who achieved glory at the Swansea film festival earlier this year.

His latest short film, which they finished last week, features a tragedy on a trampoline.

It is about an eight-year-old girl called Cassie who is scared of trying out a trampoline. Her uncle persuades her to give it a go but when Cassie jumps towards the edge he dies saving her. The film was written by 20-year-old Sarah Fowler, from Littleworth, with Ed and Julius directing and Oliver as cameraman.