FRUSTRATED Callington actors are having to send to the USA for a copy of a film shot in the town because it has not been released in the UK. The filming of the movie ?Conspiracy of Silence? starring Oscar-winning actress Brenda Fricker brought glitz and glamour to the community four years ago and local stars have been eager to see the finished product. But its makers have been unable to find a distributor in the UK, despite the film being shown at international film festivals and receiving award nominations. Callington was transformed into a film set during January 2002 and members of the Prim Raf Theatre used as extras for the movie which tackled the controversial subject of celibacy and its implications for the Catholic Church in the 21st Century. Chosen for its similarity to small working towns in Ireland, Callington became the Irish town of Galcranagh. Shops and post-boxes were given a fresh coat of green paint and new signs were put in place. Resident Julie Wheldon, who appeared in the film, said she had been looking for it on the internet for two years before her son managed to find it in an online store last summer. But unless movie buyers have the latest technology which can play DVDs produced for the American market as well as the UK, they will still not be able to watch the film. Mrs Wheldon said the DVD played on her machine and she was impressed by the film: ?I wanted to see it because I was in it and because of Callington but it is a good film as well. It would be great to see it on the big screen in this country.? Mrs Wheldon remembers the filming in Callington as great fun: ?We were all chosen after screen tests to see how we would look on film and we were given as much food as we wanted on the day of filming and treated really well. Lynda Dawe, who also went to Bigbury for part of the filming, also remembers the events with great affection: ?Fore Street was closed off and they put mud on the road to set the scene. ?All the extras were in a big double decker bus waiting to be called ? it was a cold January day but we were all very excited.? ?We knew very little about the film apart from the scenes we were in - all I know about it is what I have read in the press and on the internet. I would do anything to see it.? A veteran extra, having appeared in the series Down to Earth and Doc Martin, Mrs Dawe said she had found a copy of Conspiracy of Silence on the internet, but could not play it on her DVD player. The film was screened at festivals around the world and was shown on the opening night of the Galway Film Festival in Ireland. It also picked up several award nominations and won a special mention at the Warsaw Film Festival in 2003. A spokesperson for director John Deery said the reason for the film not being released in the UK was that the producers had not managed to sell it to a UK distributor. ?For anyone to pick it up they need to find an audience. It is quite an arthouse subject after all.? She said the film had gone down well in the US.