EMO the Musical

 
‘How do we know you´re for real?’ · ‘I tried to hang myself at my last school and they expelled me.’ · ‘Welcome to the band.’

After receiving a Special Mention for Best Short Film from the Generation Youth Jury in 2014, this love story full of irony and exhilaration has now been given the feature-film treatment. Ethan, a sensitive and depressed Emo boy with suicidal tendencies, plays hard doom and gloom rock with the likeminded, in a band where good moods are strictly taboo. Ever chipper classmate Trinity for her part prefers to use her sweet voice to sing praises to the Lord in her Christian youth group. Trinity and Ethan, nobody will ever understand this unlikely match, let alone accept it! And yet that's exactly what came to pass when their two paths crossed for the first time. The impossible bond they share sets a number of events in motion at their crazy little school.

details

  • Runtime

    94 min
  • Country

    Australia
  • Year of Presentation

    2017
  • Year of Production

    2017
  • Director

    Neil Triffett
  • Cast

    Benson Jack Anthony, Jordan Hare, Rahart Adams
  • Production Company

    Matthewswood Productions
  • Berlinale Section

    Generation
  • Berlinale Category

    Feature Film

Biography Neil Triffett

Born in Tasmania, Australia in 1988, he graduated with distinction from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. Since then he has worked in documentary and corporate film production as well as for arts organisations and theatre productions. He has also been making his own short films. His short film Emo (the Musical), on which his debut feature film is based, screened in the Berlinale Generation section in 2014.

Filmography Neil Triffett

2009 Derek | 2009 Sarah | 2010 Shoplifting | 2013 Emo (The Musical) | 2014 Liar