Shopping

Shopping is the feature film debut of Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland, the writing/directing team behind acclaimed New Zealand shorts The Six Dollar Fifty Man and Run. Both films were honoured by the Cannes...

New Zealand Production

Feature 2013 Drama 98.00 minutes

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New Zealand, 1981: muscle cars, racial tensions and a thieving bird all inform the small town life of brothers Willie and Solomon. After a chance encounter with charismatic thief Bennie and his close-knit gang of ‘shoppers’, Willie is seduced into a criminal world that allows him to escape mounting tensions with his volatile father. But as Bennie’s hold over him grows Willie finds himself in over his head; and when Solomon is left to fend for himself at home, Willie’s two worlds collide with shattering consequences.

Berlin International Film Festival

Generation 14plus Grand Prix Best Feature Film

2013: Sundance Film Festival (World Dramatic Competition)

Guanajuato International Film Festival

Saint Tropez Film Festival

Seoul International Youth Film Festival

Vladivostok International Film Festival

Crime and Punishment Film Festival

Saint Petersburg Film Festival

Encounters Film Festival

Kino w Trampkach - Cinema with Sneakers

ImagineNATIVE Film Festival

Tallinn Black Nights

2013 Just Film Festival

Directors

Mark Albiston

Louis Sutherland

Producers

Sarah Shaw

Anna McLeish

Screenplay Writers

Mark Albiston

Louis Sutherland

Cast

Julian Dennison
Solomon

Kevin Paulo
Willie

Jacek Koman
Bennie

Alistair Browning
Terry

Crew

Ginny Loane | Director of Photography

Annie Collins | Editor

Grayson Gilmour | Original Music

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