Country: Italy
Year: 1991
Duration: 15'


The Boy tells the story of a boy desperately searching for his sexual identity. His rage and frustration lead him to contemplate the idea of suicide. He decides not to kill himself. Then, by a trick of faith, he shoots himself by mistake. It is only in death that he finds the freedom that eluded him while he was alive.

Biography

film director

Greta Meda

Greta Meda (Turin, 1968) graduated from Rhodes University, South Africa, in Journalism and Means of Visual Communication. She has made a series of videoclips, documentaries and shorts. Presently she is in Italy on a fellowship.

Cast

& Credits

Director and editor: Greta Meda.
Screenplay: Nanti Steyn.
Director of photography: Mark Vincente.
Music: Alan Cameron & Sam Wingate.
Sound: Sam Wingate.
Cast: Liam Cundill, Carina Fisher, Jennifer WelIstead, Julie Robertson, Jason Kennett.
Production company: Chocolate Biscuit Production, P.O. Box 651722, Benmore 2010, Sud Africa, tel. 7835639.
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