SAN DIEGO — What happens when aliens attack a South London council estate? Basically, the extraterrestrials don’t stand a chance.

“We’ve got 11 actors between the ages of 10 and 17,” Cornish says in the video interview above. “Apart from two of them, none of them have been in front of a camera before.”

Attack the Block stars John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker and Alex Esmail. In the video, we asked Cornish about the process of shooting Attack the Block on 35mm and how the filmmakers muddled through the process.

Wired.com video crew: Annaliza Savage, producer; Fernando Cardoso, Michael Lennon and Simon Lutrin, editors; Greg Stidham, camera.