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YOUTH IS… INNOCENT
YOUTH IS… BEAUTIFUL
YOUTH IS… DANGEROUS
WASTED ON THE YOUNG
DIRECTED BY BEN C. LUCAS
STARRING
OLIVER ACKLAND, ADELAIDE CLEMENS, ALEX RUSSELL
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There is an insulated parallel universe that the youth live in. Ruled by primitive norms that separate the strong from the weak, those in power are untouchable and those below them are at their mercy. However, everything that the youth of a posh high school in suburban Australia know to be the status quo is challenged when the lives of three individuals collide. WASTED ON THE YOUNG is a contemporary story that explores the classic entwinement of anarchy, elitism, social conformity and martyrdom.
Synopsis: WASTED ON THE YOUNG is set in the socially conscious and disaffected society of an elite high school. Zack (Alex Russell), a member of the cool clique and Darren (Oliver Ackland), a geeky kid are step brothers who occupy opposite ends of the school hierarchy. Bullied by the cool kids, Darren finds himself forced to act when his tormentors go too far by drugging and assaulting his best friend Xandrie (Adelaide Clemens). After being left for dead in the middle of nowhere, Xandrie suddenly makes a surprise return to school that sets off a chain reaction of events. What begins as the devastation and implosion of Xandrie’s world soon threatens to trigger the implosion of the whole social hierarchy as Zack tries to manipulate the facts of that night and Darren sets off to disillusion the masses that put Zack on his elitist pedestal in the first place. Soon, the brothers’ lives are at the mercy of the opinions of their classmates.
About the Director: WASTED ON THE YOUNG is Ben C. Lucas’s first feature film. Ben is a recipient of the prestigious ZTudio What IF? Award for his screenplay ‘All Flesh Must Be Eaten,’ and has directed shorts and documentaries with international festival and broadcast TV release. He has an extensive background in crewing and production and moved through the ranks of script supervision and assistant directing on large scale productions to hone his craft as a director. Ben focuses on story as the overriding principal in filmmaking and is inspired by classic fables as they apply to cinema.
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