Tense, Dark, Potent New Teaser For SNOWTOWN!
If you thought Wolf Creek was a crazy film, a fiction based loosely on the real life Australian serial killer Ivan Milat, wait until you hear about Snowtown, a film directly and specifically based on the actual Snowtown murders in South Australia in the 1990s which claimed 12 lives.
And as the early feedback over on Encore shows, the early footage -- tense and haunting -- is already hitting the raw nerve. And if the mood surrounding the movie wasn't dark enough, the film has been selected to premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival in early 2011 -- Adelaide being the capital city 145km south of the real Snowtown.
Here's what the film festival is saying about the film:
The shadow of the Snowtown murders still looms large, raising questions about the violence that can explode out of forgotten communities in Australian society. 16-year-old Jamie is a kid from the northern suburbs who desperately needs a father figure. What he gets instead is John Bunting, a charismatic figure who condenses all the hatred and grievance in our culture and then unleashes it in a cold fury.Justin Kurzel's debut feature marks the arrival of a major filmmaking talent. He has made a film as starkly confronting as it is beautifully controlled, with consistently fine performances from a local cast of mainly first-time actors. In the style of The Boys or Samson & Delilah, it is a film of silences that cut deep; it evokes the Dardenne brothers through its ability to lay the brutality of life before us with a power born of simplicity. Snowtown will resonate with you long after you leave the cinema.
The Snowtown teaser footage aired on TV during the Australian Film Institute Awards, so you'll have to skip forward about 0:25 seconds to see it, or watch the awkward introduction, your choice.
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