Another View 2009 / Wasted / United Kingdom 2009
Connor and Suzanne, who work as prostitutes and live in a squat with many other homeless people and junkies, stick together in order to face the harsh realities of their difficult lives. This naturalistic movie, shot as an improvisation, stars newcomers as well as actual homeless people and junkies.
Connor and Suzanne, who went to school together as kids, meet up again after many years. They both work as prostitutes and live at a squat with many other homeless people and junkies. They start to stick close together in an effort to face the harsh realities of their pitiable fate, and the abuse they suffer from so-called normal and respectable citizens. This highly naturalistic movie, which plays out in primarily one location – an old, ramshackle factory – was shot as an improvisation, with actual homeless people and junkies featured alongside Gary Lewis and newcomers Neil Leiper and Emma Hartley-Miller. The directors, who among other things have cooperated with several social centers, manifest deep knowledge of the life and lifestyle such people find themselves in. They don’t judge them, but just provide us a glimpse of the social fringes that we’d rather not look at.
108 min / Color, 35 mm
International premiere
Director Caroline Paterson, Stuart Davids
/ Screenplay Caroline Paterson, Stuart Davids
/ Dir. of Photography Lol Crawley
/ Music Jim Sutherland
/ Editor James Hamilton, Phyllis Ironside
/ Producer Wendy Griffin
/ Production Wasted Production Ltd
/ Cast Neil Leiper, Emma Hartley-Miller, Kate Dickie, Paul Thomas Hickey, David Hayman, Alan Tripney, Gary Lewis, Brian McCardie, Martin McCardie, David McKay
/ Contact Wasted Production Ltd
Caroline Paterson and Stuart Davids have been working together for 18 years. They founded Glasgow’s Raindog Theatre Company, whose success led to a production company of the same name. They have produced 13 plays, and have shot two short films and three award-winning television series for the BBC. For the theater Caroline Paterson has directed John Osborne’s play The Entertainer, Wasted, Wasted II, and John Byrne’s Still Life. Wasted is their feature debut. They are currently working on their second feature.
Wasted Production Ltd
, , Edinburgh
United Kingdom
E-mail: [email protected]
Caroline Paterson
Film Director
Stuart Davids
Film Director
James Hamilton
Producer
Phyllis Ironside
Producer
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