Social Suicide is an investigative thriller examining what it really takes to get noticed on the Internet today. Loosely based on Romeo and Juliet, the police investigate what happened to these two teenagers before it’s too late by trolling through their relationship history through social media.
We talk to the director of Social Suicide, Bruce Webb, about the making of this film and the challenges/pressures on teenagers…
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We talk to the director of Social Suicide, Bruce Webb, about the making of this film and the challenges/pressures on teenagers…
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- 1/7/2016
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
Producers reps The Thing Is… are representing worldwide rights to Bruce Webb’s British youth drama/thriller Social Suicide and Claude Green’s The Doo Dah Man.
Alan McQueen and Chris Johnson from The Thing Is… are both attending Afm to rep the titles.
Social Suicide, produced by Janet Wells, premiered at Raindance 2015 last month in London and will next travel to Ale Kino, Poland’s Youth Film Festival.
Jackson Bews and India Eisley lead the cast of thriller, which shows the lengths teenagers will go to for Internet fame.
Notably, the adult cast features cameos from Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, reuniting for the first time since playing Romeo and Juliet for Zeffirelli in 1968. The cast is rounded out by Neve McIntosh and Richard Cordery.
Wells also co-wrote the script with Robert Klecha.
The Doo Dah Man is about the relationship between a con man and a young man running away from his father. The cast features...
Alan McQueen and Chris Johnson from The Thing Is… are both attending Afm to rep the titles.
Social Suicide, produced by Janet Wells, premiered at Raindance 2015 last month in London and will next travel to Ale Kino, Poland’s Youth Film Festival.
Jackson Bews and India Eisley lead the cast of thriller, which shows the lengths teenagers will go to for Internet fame.
Notably, the adult cast features cameos from Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, reuniting for the first time since playing Romeo and Juliet for Zeffirelli in 1968. The cast is rounded out by Neve McIntosh and Richard Cordery.
Wells also co-wrote the script with Robert Klecha.
The Doo Dah Man is about the relationship between a con man and a young man running away from his father. The cast features...
- 11/2/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Producers reps The Thing Is… are representing worldwide rights to Bruce Webb’s British youth drama/thriller Social Suicide.
Alan McQueen and Chris Johnson from The Thing Is… are both attending Afm to rep the title.
The film, produced by Janet Wells, premiered at Raindance 2015 last month in London and will next travel to Ale Kino, Poland’s Youth Film Festival.
Jackson Bews and India Eisley lead the cast of thriller, which shows the lengths teenagers will go to for Internet fame.
Notably, the adult cast features cameos from Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, reuniting for the first time since playing Romeo and Juliet for Zeffirelli in 1968. The cast is rounded out by Neve McIntosh and Richard Cordery.
Wells also co-wrote the script with Robert Klecha.
Alan McQueen and Chris Johnson from The Thing Is… are both attending Afm to rep the title.
The film, produced by Janet Wells, premiered at Raindance 2015 last month in London and will next travel to Ale Kino, Poland’s Youth Film Festival.
Jackson Bews and India Eisley lead the cast of thriller, which shows the lengths teenagers will go to for Internet fame.
Notably, the adult cast features cameos from Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, reuniting for the first time since playing Romeo and Juliet for Zeffirelli in 1968. The cast is rounded out by Neve McIntosh and Richard Cordery.
Wells also co-wrote the script with Robert Klecha.
- 11/2/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Film London’s export market to screen Despite the Falling Snow, Urban Hymn and The ReZort.
Film London announces a selection of new titles set to premiere at the 12th edition of London Screenings in June.
Taking place from June 22-25 at London’s BFI Southbank, London Screenings is a UK export market attended by hundreds of international and domestic buyers every year.
This year’s edition will host the premieres of Cold War drama Despite the Falling Snow (6 Sales) with Charles Dance, 2011 riots story Urban Hymn (Metro International) starring Shirley Henderson and zombie thriller The ReZort (Umedia, formerly Generation Z), with Dougray Scott.
Other titles includeThe Legend of Barney Thomson, which will be distributed in the UK by Icon, and Maxine Peake’s Hamlet, which is being sold by The Little Film Company.
As well as premiering completed features, London Screenings will also meet attendees’ increasing appetite for unseen and work-in-progress titles, with highlights...
Film London announces a selection of new titles set to premiere at the 12th edition of London Screenings in June.
Taking place from June 22-25 at London’s BFI Southbank, London Screenings is a UK export market attended by hundreds of international and domestic buyers every year.
This year’s edition will host the premieres of Cold War drama Despite the Falling Snow (6 Sales) with Charles Dance, 2011 riots story Urban Hymn (Metro International) starring Shirley Henderson and zombie thriller The ReZort (Umedia, formerly Generation Z), with Dougray Scott.
Other titles includeThe Legend of Barney Thomson, which will be distributed in the UK by Icon, and Maxine Peake’s Hamlet, which is being sold by The Little Film Company.
As well as premiering completed features, London Screenings will also meet attendees’ increasing appetite for unseen and work-in-progress titles, with highlights...
- 5/19/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
In a reunion longer in the making than Monty Python's, the original lovers from Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo And Juliet are reuniting on film for the first time in 46 years. Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey played the titular doomed paramours in the 1968 adaptation and have come together again to play Juliet's (here renamed Julia's) parents for a new project, Social Suicide. The film kicked off filming in London this week. It is a loose retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy, taking the well-known tale into the digital age. After some suspicious murder/suicides of teenagers, the police trawl through endless information and videos from social media and security cameras, as well as interrogating survivor Balthazar (Maleficent's Jackson Bews) to discover the cause of the chaos.It's directed by Bruce Webb (previously of The Be All And End All) and stars India Eisley as Julia. In a nice bit of serendipity and/or nepotism,...
- 9/24/2014
- EmpireOnline
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers? Love Life Trailer A few weeks ago I talked about a trailer called New Kids Turbo. I received a good amount of e-mail letting me...
- 12/4/2010
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
A British film bound for Italy, but not Britain, a pooch with talent and, quelle surprise, an exhibitionist French actor
• It has been a week of furious deal-making in Cannes, so spare a thought for film-maker Bruce Webb and his movie The Be All and End All, about a sick scouse teenager who desperately wants to have sex before he dies. With a cast that includes Liza Tarbuck, it is a very English working-class comedy that will be seen in Scandinavia and Italy but not the UK. Webb said: "It's baffling really, mystifying. We've won four awards and we're being asked to so many Us festivals that we can't even supply the prints."
• Ten years after Jennifer Jason Leigh accepted an award at Cannes on behalf of a dog called Otis in Anniversary Party, a new canine champion was crowned yesterday. The annual Palme Dog prize, for the best pooch...
• It has been a week of furious deal-making in Cannes, so spare a thought for film-maker Bruce Webb and his movie The Be All and End All, about a sick scouse teenager who desperately wants to have sex before he dies. With a cast that includes Liza Tarbuck, it is a very English working-class comedy that will be seen in Scandinavia and Italy but not the UK. Webb said: "It's baffling really, mystifying. We've won four awards and we're being asked to so many Us festivals that we can't even supply the prints."
• Ten years after Jennifer Jason Leigh accepted an award at Cannes on behalf of a dog called Otis in Anniversary Party, a new canine champion was crowned yesterday. The annual Palme Dog prize, for the best pooch...
- 5/21/2010
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
James Ivory’s "City of Your Final Destination” will be the opening night curtain raiser at the 12th annual Method Fest, which runs from March 25-31 in Calabasas, Ca. and Aguora Hills, Ca.
"City" stars Anthony Hopkins, Omar Metwally, Laura Linney and Charlotte Gainsbourg in Ruth Prawere Jhabvala's adaptation of Peter Cameron's novel.
Other titles in the line-up include Bruce Webb's "The Be All and End All," Paul Hills' “Do Elephants Pray?," Dagur Kari's "The Good Heart," Marc Rensing's "Parkour" and Jeff Phillips' "UrFrenz."
"We now have become a worldwide showcase of quality independent film," Don Franken, the festival's executive director said. "We also have many world premieres this year. But, even more importantly, we have films with captivating performances, and riveting stories that...
"City" stars Anthony Hopkins, Omar Metwally, Laura Linney and Charlotte Gainsbourg in Ruth Prawere Jhabvala's adaptation of Peter Cameron's novel.
Other titles in the line-up include Bruce Webb's "The Be All and End All," Paul Hills' “Do Elephants Pray?," Dagur Kari's "The Good Heart," Marc Rensing's "Parkour" and Jeff Phillips' "UrFrenz."
"We now have become a worldwide showcase of quality independent film," Don Franken, the festival's executive director said. "We also have many world premieres this year. But, even more importantly, we have films with captivating performances, and riveting stories that...
- 2/25/2010
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tina Mabry's "Mississippi Damned," an independent American production, won the Gold Hugo as the best film in the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival, and added Gold Plaques for best supporting actress (Jossie Thacker) and best screenplay (Mabry). It tells the harrowing story of three black children growing up in rural Mississippi in circumstances of violence and addiction. The film's trailer and an interview with Mabry are linked at the bottom.
Kylee Russell in "Mississippi Damned"
The win came over a crowed field of competitors from all over the world, many of them with much larger budgets. The other big winner at the Pump Room of the Ambassador East awards ceremony Saturday evening was by veteran master Marco Bellocchio of Italy, who won the Silver Hugo as best director for "Vincere," the story of Mussolini's younger brother. Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi won Silver Hugos as best actress and actor,...
Kylee Russell in "Mississippi Damned"
The win came over a crowed field of competitors from all over the world, many of them with much larger budgets. The other big winner at the Pump Room of the Ambassador East awards ceremony Saturday evening was by veteran master Marco Bellocchio of Italy, who won the Silver Hugo as best director for "Vincere," the story of Mussolini's younger brother. Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi won Silver Hugos as best actress and actor,...
- 10/23/2009
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
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