Film Info
Snowtown

Film Information

Exhibition Title	Snowtown
Original Title	Snowtown
English Title	Snowtown
Director	Justin Kurzel
Country
Year	2011
Format	35 mm
Colour	Color
Duration	120'

Cast:

Intérpretes / Cast: Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris

Production:

Guión / Scriptwriter: Shaun Grant
Fotografía / Cinematography: Adam Arkapaw
Edición / Editing: Veronika Jenet
Producción / Producer: Anna McLeish, Sarah Shaw
Compañía Productora / Production Company: Warp Films Australia

dates & times ticket

tickets

Synopsis

The Australian town of Snowtown made headlines in the late Nineties because of the events that took place there. This fiction film based in that story features Jamie Vlassakis, a blond, long-haired teenager with an angel’s face who lives with his mother and his young siblings in a working class suburb, where lots of things happen on the streets, but also indoors. Jamie soon starts to relate to his mother’s new boyfriend John Bunting, a friendly and apparently nice neighbor. But he and his friends actually form a violent xenophobe and homophobe group. Tension is built up slowly, depicting the horror of everyday situations with the pulse of a perverted Mike Leigh, and resulting in one of the hardest first films to be seen in the international circuit in 2011, and which makes Mad Max seem like an Australian version of Speed Racer.