Director Shane Meadows and writer Paul Frazer are working together again on Tomboy Films' Somers Town, which began shooting this week.

The short film follows the lives of two boys living in the Somers Town area of London. Filming started last week for three weeks on location in the UK capital.

Meadows and Frazer previously worked together on Dead Man's Shoes and Twenty Four Seven amongst others.

'It will be the first film I have made in London,' said Meadows. 'I wanted to try and capture both the familiarity and the strangeness of London.

'In a funny way it has also become a much more cosmopolitan production than my previous work, with a cast from Poland, France and the UK and an Argentinian Director of Photography.'

The film is being financed by Eurostar.