Country: Austria
Year: 2010
Duration: 107'
inside america Hanna High School in Brownsville, Texas, a small town a few kilometers from the Mexican border, is a microcosm in which small everyday tragedies take place. It is populated by cocaine-addicted cheerleaders, patriotic students enrolled in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, members of violent gangs and young Mexican girls in search of a husband. But everybody has something in common: every morning they swear their allegiance to the American flag and dream of a beautiful house with a white picket fence and a fancy car. These hopes are destined to collide with a very different reality once they leave school. “I know what means to live in Brownsville. I directly know the people and their tragedies. Telling their stories has been an indispensable mission for me. With this film, that talk about six teenagers during their senior year at the Hanna High School, I narrate the tragic stories I witness.”
Biography
film director
Barbara Eder
Barbara Eder (Eisenstadt, Austria, 1976) studied film directing at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and made numerous short films like Sleepless (2002) and Tod Teufel & Kommerz (2004). In 2005 she directed the documentary Himmel, Hölle, Rosenkranz, followed by Harald Serafin auf Hoher See (2006). Inside America is her first long feature film and it based on the school year that she spent in Brownsville in 1994.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Sleepless (cm, 2002), Tod, Teufel & Kommerz (cm, 2004), Himmel, Hölle, Rosenkranz (cm, doc., 2005), Harald Serafin auf Hoher See (cm, doc., 2006), hianznordsüd (cm, doc., 2008), Inside America (2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Barbara Eder
fotografia/cinematography
Christian Haake
montaggio/film editing
Claudia Linzer
musica/music
Gerrit Wunder
suono/sound
Gailute Miksyte, Atanas Tcholakov
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Raul Juarez (Manni), Aimeé Lizette Saldivar (Aimee), Zuleyma Jaime (Zuly), Luis De Los Santos (Ricky), Carlos Benavides (Carlos), Patty Barrera (Patty), Edward K. Bravo (Lalo), Roberto A. Perez (Fuego)
produttore/producer
Constanze Schumann
produzione/production
AG Shumann Eder
vendita all’estero/world sales
Austrian Film Commission
