A little Tinsletown stardust fell on Tunbridge Wells this week when the Trinity Theatre hosted the Kent premiere of a new movie - shot entirely on location in the county.

The Carer, starring Brian Cox, was to have been filmed on a country estate in Scotland, but a last-minute hitch forced producer Charlotte Wontner to look around for a new location - she found it at Boughton Monchelsea Place just outside Maidstone.

The film was shot over five weeks at the beginning of 2015, with additional scenes recorded at the Sutton Valence Care Home and at Sutton Valence Prep and Senior Schools. Other scenes were filmed in the Lord Raglan pub in Chart Hill Road, Staplehurst, and at shops in Headcorn.

Mrs Wontner, who lives in Collier Street, said: “Local companies were very helpful and lots of local villagers helped us with our crowd scenes. Most of our lead actors came from London, the USA or Hungary but they enjoyed coming out of town to film in the Kent countryside, and they loved staying at Leeds Castle!”

On Sunday, the audience at The Trinity enjoyed a drinks and canapes reception, watched the movie and then had the chance of a Q&A session with one of the actors, Karl Johnson, Mrs Wontner and members of the crew.

Mrs Wontner said afterwards: “It all went really well. The theatre was packed and the response from the stalls was fantastic.

“Lots of people in the audience were locals who had appeared as extras in the film.”

The Carer tells the story of a cantankerous old Shakespearean actor, played by Cox, who is suffering from a form of Parkinson’s, who has scared off all his previous helpers. Then his daughter finds him a new carer, a young Hungarian refugee called Dorottya, who has acting aspirations of her own. She is played by Coco Konig.

The film is made by Hopscotch Films and stars Emilia Fox, Anna Chancellor, Karl Johnson and has a brief appearance by Sir Roger Moore.

It is directed by Janos Edelenyi.

It has already had its US premiere at the Palm Springs Festival, and its British première at the Edinburgh Film Festival, where it won the award for best film at both.