[CITY CRUSH TRAILER]
SYNOPSIS
A lavish thug poaches an exotic young trophy-boy and smuggles him into City Crush. When our would be ivory concubine escapes during his own sale he must navigate the desolation, boredom, and deviant lust of the locals.
Film Festival Selections
Diametrale (Innsbruck, Austria)
Short Waves Festival (Poznan, Poland)
8th Cairo Video Festival (Cairo, Egypt)
Aesthetica Short Film Festival (York, UK)
Byron Bay International Film Festival (Byron Bay, AU)
BLOW-UP · Chicago International Arthouse Film Festival (Chicago, USA)
Atlanta Underground Film Festival (Atlanta, USA)
Cannes Court Métrage – Festival de Cannes (Cannes, FR)
AVIFF-Art Film Festival (Cannes, FR)
Alchemy Film & Moving image Festival (Hawick, UK)
Speechless Film Festival (Minnesota, USA)
Awards
Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival (Hong Kong) - Best Experimental Film
Most Outstanding Director - Griffith University
Cast and Crew
Cast (in order of appearance)
Priest - Gene Von Banyard
Stolen Trophy Boy - Harry Piaggio
Breakdancing Thug in Red Tracksuit - Yukon Snakes
Curious Bunny Lover - John Stefulj
Daytime Infomercial Addict - Patricia Petersen
Stolen Boys' Tribe - Kyrra MacDonald, Georgia McKevitt, Jenna Kenney, Holly Heath, Lauren Wylie, Isobel Salisbury, Benjamin Gane, Peta Carolan, Lachlan Evans, Renae Scotson, Luis Barnett.
Crew
Director, Producer, Editor - Mia Forrest
Cinematographer - Jason Klaassen
Production Designer - Alex Hodgins
Original Score and Sound Designer - Samuel Pankhurst
1st AD - Jason Fitzgerald
1st AC - Corey Donaldson, Rachel Sieger, Gayle Wedemeyer
Gaffer - Josh Long, Ricky Collier-Waiomio
Sound Recordist - Jackson Scott, Mircha Mangiacotti
ADR Recordist and Foley Artist - Mary Duong
Head of Makeup - Billie Weston
Data Wrangler - Daniel Taylor
Colourist: Joe Lancaster at Chop Shop Post
Stills Photographer - Joshua Ochoa, Adam Briggs