It stars Jamie Blackley, Michael Smiley,[2] Sean Teale,[2] Amber Anderson, Rosamund Hanson and Adam Gillen.

He describes it as "A film about growing up in Birmingham" The script was derived from old home movies he had made with friends when he was 18 and 19.

[5] Edgar views the film as highly political and says he was inspired to write it by the 2010 United Kingdom student protests "As I was writing the student riots happened and then the summer riots and the period when I was 20 in 1990 seemed to have a lot of resonance for modern youth".

"[6] The film was released in UK cinemas on 24 April 2014[7] and has also sold to Germany, the United States, Canada, Luxumbourg, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands.

[8][9][10] The film's cast was praised by Allan Hunter writing in Screen Daily, who stated that the film is a "Likeable breezy British teen comedy" that "offers a fantastic showcase for a talented, charismatic young cast who make the most of the script’s jocular wit",[11] while Guy Lodge, writing for Variety, described the film as "amusing, appealingly performed and sensibly brief"[12] Andrew Blair, reviewing for Den of Geek, gave the film four stars and thought it able to "provide the most successful representation of male teenagers I've seen at this festival" he went on to note the films political resonance and that "It has a lot of anger bubbling under its surface"[13] The film's style was praised by Catherine Bray in Time Out, who thought that "the strength of ‘We Are the Freaks’ is that it never feels like a cookie-cutter teen movie" and that it had "raw energy that allows its lack of polish and occasional tonal missteps to come over as endearing".