A FILM starring actors from a Leominster-based theatre company has become a viral hit.

Jack Butler and Tom Fleming, from ECHO's About Face theatre company, were cast against stiff competition from London-based actors to appear in a film called Love4life.

FitzRoy, a national charity, commissioned the film to support its fundraising campaign and hope to raise £74,000 to save a vital project that supports people with disabilities stay safe when they go out, meet people online and look for love.

The Love4life project has been chosen as the charity of the year at the National Learning Disabilities and Autism Awards which will be held at the ICC Birmingham in July.

The film’s director Michelle Craig and assistant director Dani Castro were very impressed with the professionalism and hard-work of the Leominster actors on the day.

The film was uploaded on video sharing websites Upworthy and Youtube and has been viewed 1,363,163 times.