Jordan-Kane Lewis, 23, is keeping his fingers crossed for positive feedback on his black-and-white film A Touch of Vengeance, which will eventually premiere on Amazon Prime.

When it will be released online depends on whether any of the festivals it premiered at require premiere status. Jordan-Kane said, “I’ve been to nine film festivals, including the Spirit of independence in Sheffield, the Midlands Film Awards and the biggest film festival Aesthetic who is based in York. The earliest date I’ll be notified is May 1, so there’s still a bit of time to wait.”

Meanwhile, cast and crew will see the edited film for the first time on February 5 at the Sheffield Showroom.

Jordan-Kane filmed, produced, edited, directed and co-wrote A Touch of Vengeance. The film centers on the life of a hitman who becomes complicated after an easy job goes sour.

Multi-award winning actress Leona Clarke plays an attack victim who wakes up in a body bag – an experience that transforms her from a normal person into a cold-blooded killer. Paul Jonah is cast as the gun for hire while Martin Nadin’s character in the film is a troublemaker with a streak of violence.

The black-and-white film’s three main actors have impressive cinematic pedigrees. Leona has won a dozen awards at festivals around the world for her starring role in Faith, Paul’s credits include Bait, Mercenary and Green Zone while Martin starred in the 2018 release An Inspector Calls.

Filming for A Touch of Vengeance mainly took place in Derbyshire where scenes were filmed two years ago. Jordan-Kane said: “One of my brother’s friends had a flat in Dronfield which we changed to make it look like a safe house. We shot a fight scene at the top of the new Holywell Cross car park in Chesterfield and we We had some really good shots at Ladybower Reservoir.”

Students from Chesterfield College came on board, with Albert Cash landing the role of the villain’s son and others playing extras among a cast of 33.

Jordan-Kane said: “I’m grateful to everyone who helped me. Martin Nadin’s performance in the film is amazing – he comes across as truly evil. Everyone put their own spin on the characters which definitely made the film. .”

The film had a budget of £2,000, with Jordan-Kane using student loans to help finance it and his own equipment. He teamed up with his cousin Lucy Ingram, who lives in Essex, to write the screenplay.

A student at UCR Rotherham at the time the film was made, he went on to earn a BA in Media, Moving Image and Photography.

Jordan-Kane is now in her first year of a filmmaking masters course at Sheffield Hallam University and is considering a second feature film. He said: “I’m hoping to work on a horror film, in the genre of a vampire film set in Derbyshire, because you never see a lot of local vampire films. I would like to do it completely in a very small town and , hopefully I can convince the board.”