Award-winners start pre-production on debut feature

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Thursday, 8th March 2012

Award Winning Filmmaking Duo Commence Pre-Production on Debut Feature Film

Pre-production commences this month on Shopping, the much anticipated debut feature film from award-winning filmmakers Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland. The film will be shot on the Kapiti Coast and in Wellington, New Zealand from mid-April.

Albiston and Sutherland are the writing/directing team behind acclaimed New Zealand shorts The Six Dollar Fifty Man and Run. Both films were honoured by the Cannes Short Film jury with a Special Distinction in the Short Film Competition at the 2009 and 2007 (respectively) Cannes International Film Festival. The Six Dollar Fifty Man also received the Jury Prize for International Short Filmmaking at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was long-listed for the 2011 Academy Awards.

The film is being produced by Warp Films Australia producers’ Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw (Snowtown). Writing and directing credits for Shopping will be shared by Albiston and Sutherland, both of whom were recipients of the New Zealand Arts Foundation’s New Generation Awards in 2010.

New Zealand, 1981: seduced by a charismatic career criminal, 16-year-old Willie must choose where his loyalty lies, with a family of shoplifters or his own blood.

The film will star Jacek Koman (Moulin Rouge, Australia, Defiance, The Hunter), with final casting still to be announced later this month.

Shopping has been financed by the New Zealand Film Commission with support from Fulcrum Media Finance. It will be distributed in New Zealand and Australia by Madman Entertainment. NZ Film, the sales arm of the NZFC, is handling world sales of the film.

ENDS

© Scoop Media