Country: Spain
Year: 2010
Duration: 97'
wasted on the young Zack and his step-brother Darren couldn’t be more different: the first is charismatic and popular, while the second is maladjusted and a technology geek. Darren’s only salvation from marginalization is the swim team at the elite school where both boys study. The one thing they seem to have in common is their interest in Xandrie, a cultured girl who is completely indifferent to the hipster fashion of her peers. Her apparent death at a party organized by Zack will upset the social hierarchy at the high school and the life of the two brothers. “High school is a microcosm. It’s this weird Petri dish where all these bacterial colonies gather and fight for survival that couldn’t possibly survive or exist anywhere else. The student society just doesn’t work like any other part of the society that the school is meant to be preparing kids for. It does my head in... I remember thinking when I was in school that we were sort of being shielded from reality rather than inducted into it.”
Biography
film director
Ben C. Lucas
Ben C. Lucas (Australia) screenwriter and director, won the Australian prize ZTudio What IF? with the screenplay for All Flesh Must Be Eaten: The Movie, based on the homonymous role-playing game that became popular starting in 1999. In 2008 he wrote and directed the episode Y God of the Australian TV series My Generation. Wasted on the Young is his debut film as director.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
My Generation (ep. Y God, cm, tv, doc., 2008), Wasted on the Young (2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Ben C. Lucas
fotografia/cinematography
Dan Freene
montaggio/film editing
Leanne Cole
scenografia/production design
Sam Hobbs
suono/sound
Jed Palmer
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Oliver Ackland (Darren), Adelaide Clemens (Xandrie), Alex Russell (Zack), Patrick Cullen (Shay), Georgina Haig (Simone), Geraldine Hakewill (Ella), TJ Power (Brook), Tom Stokes (Jonathan), Kym Thorne (Karenn)
produttori/producers
Janelle Landers, Aidan O’Bryan
produzione/production
Wbmc
vendita all’estero/world sales
Fortissimo Film
