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'Estranged teens Corey and Jonah, begrudgingly find themselves walking home together on Halloween 1997 - the last night of high school, embarking on a surreal journey through their memories, dreams and fears as they lay the ghosts of their past to rest.'
Source: Screen Australia.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Gender and Sexual Diversity and Suicide on Australian Screens : Culture, Representation, and Health Pedagogies
2021
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Popular Culture , April vol. 54 no. 2 2021; (p. 365-387)'Despite an often‐repeated cliché that gender and sexually diverse characters are relatively absent from film and television, Australian screen production has a very rich history of representing sexual and gender diversity: greater than nineteen wide‐release films since 1993, including internationally recognized films such as Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), The Sum of Us (1994), Head On (1998), and The Monkey’s Mask (2000), portray gender and sexual diversity. Nine Australian films with LGBTQ, gender, and sexually diverse themes were released between 2013 and 2018, indicating an entrenchment of LGBTQ representation on Australian screens. Characters in major Australian television dramas and soap operas, such as Home and Away and Neighbours, have increased in regularity and complexity over the past two decades. Sexual stories, including narratives of minority sexual lives, have never, of course, been repressed or invisible, but according to Ken Plummer, they have long been central to contemporary Western culture (4). Stories representing gender and sexually diverse subjects depicting identity struggles and articulating minority health outcomes are a major and ongoing part of Australian creative production. What is significant in cultural analysis is not questions of visibility or invisibility but how the continuities and disruptions of depictions of gender and sexual minorities play a significant, pedagogical role in social participation, social harmony, acceptance, individual health and wellbeing, and community belonging (Cover, Queer Youth Suicide; Emergent Identities).' (Introduction)
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Aussie Boys Drama Fails to Go Out On a Limb
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 20 October 2016; (p. 41)
— Review of Boys in the Trees 2016 single work film/TV -
Review : It's No Animal Kingdom, but Boys in the Trees Climbs Impressive Heights
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , October 2016;
— Review of Boys in the Trees 2016 single work film/TV 'Boys in the Trees is an Australian coming of age horror film set in 1997 on Halloween, about a group of Adelaide teenagers on the last day of high school. ...' -
Boys in the Trees Review – a Coming-of-age Film with Fright Night Flourishes
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 20 October 2016;
— Review of Boys in the Trees 2016 single work film/TV 'At its best, Nicholas Verso’s tale of estranged teens feels like an attempt to reinvent The Babadook by way of Heartbreak High.' -
Boys in the Trees Review : The Supernatural Colours Nostalgic Take on Growing up
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 15 October 2016;
— Review of Boys in the Trees 2016 single work film/TV 'Australian cinema has never stopped coming of age. It does other things as well. The past two years have seen a burgeoning of the offbeat, the original and yes, the mature, but the industry has always been inclined towards stories of adolescence and the urges and anxieties that go with it. ...'
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Pre-screen Dreams
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 15-16 October 2016; (p. 20)
— Review of Boys in the Trees 2016 single work film/TV -
Review : Boys in Trees
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Times [Perth] , 16 October 2016; (p. 13)
— Review of Boys in the Trees 2016 single work film/TV -
Boys in the Trees Review : The Supernatural Colours Nostalgic Take on Growing up
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 15 October 2016;
— Review of Boys in the Trees 2016 single work film/TV 'Australian cinema has never stopped coming of age. It does other things as well. The past two years have seen a burgeoning of the offbeat, the original and yes, the mature, but the industry has always been inclined towards stories of adolescence and the urges and anxieties that go with it. ...' -
Boys in the Trees Review – a Coming-of-age Film with Fright Night Flourishes
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 20 October 2016;
— Review of Boys in the Trees 2016 single work film/TV 'At its best, Nicholas Verso’s tale of estranged teens feels like an attempt to reinvent The Babadook by way of Heartbreak High.' -
Review : It's No Animal Kingdom, but Boys in the Trees Climbs Impressive Heights
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , October 2016;
— Review of Boys in the Trees 2016 single work film/TV 'Boys in the Trees is an Australian coming of age horror film set in 1997 on Halloween, about a group of Adelaide teenagers on the last day of high school. ...' -
Boys in the Trees Director Nicholas Verso Was 'willing to Die for This Film'
2016
single work
column
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 14 October 2016; 'When he was at school in Melbourne, film director Nicholas Verso was almost expelled for being a goth. "I blackened everything," he says. "Lashes, eyebrows: it was a big commitment." ...' -
Gender and Sexual Diversity and Suicide on Australian Screens : Culture, Representation, and Health Pedagogies
2021
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Popular Culture , April vol. 54 no. 2 2021; (p. 365-387)'Despite an often‐repeated cliché that gender and sexually diverse characters are relatively absent from film and television, Australian screen production has a very rich history of representing sexual and gender diversity: greater than nineteen wide‐release films since 1993, including internationally recognized films such as Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), The Sum of Us (1994), Head On (1998), and The Monkey’s Mask (2000), portray gender and sexual diversity. Nine Australian films with LGBTQ, gender, and sexually diverse themes were released between 2013 and 2018, indicating an entrenchment of LGBTQ representation on Australian screens. Characters in major Australian television dramas and soap operas, such as Home and Away and Neighbours, have increased in regularity and complexity over the past two decades. Sexual stories, including narratives of minority sexual lives, have never, of course, been repressed or invisible, but according to Ken Plummer, they have long been central to contemporary Western culture (4). Stories representing gender and sexually diverse subjects depicting identity struggles and articulating minority health outcomes are a major and ongoing part of Australian creative production. What is significant in cultural analysis is not questions of visibility or invisibility but how the continuities and disruptions of depictions of gender and sexual minorities play a significant, pedagogical role in social participation, social harmony, acceptance, individual health and wellbeing, and community belonging (Cover, Queer Youth Suicide; Emergent Identities).' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2017 nominated AFCA Film Awards — Best Director
- 2016 shortlisted AWGIE Awards — Film Award — Original
- 2016 nominated Venice Film Festival — Venice Horizons Award (Best Film)