Special Screening: Tuesday, April 21st,
7pm at Cinecenta
Student Union Building
University of Victoria.
Not everyone can appreciate High School Musical and if someone is daring enough to turn the concept upside down and make it politically incorrect, only a local up-and-coming writer / director Joel McCarthy can. He nicely crafts this teaser of a concept within another story. He’s a graduate of the Motion Picture Arts program at Capilano University, and he presents a mockumentary about how tough it is to find success after film school in a grassroots style movie, High School: Shooting the Musical.
The real plot is in what kind of measure some folks use to forge ahead. Is this industry so bad where what happens means, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? The movie is more of a character study about how far Adam Baxter (Bruce Novakowski), a ne’er-do-well movie-making wannabe, will go just to climb ahead. When he decides to steal the posthumous work of his flatmate, a fellow filmmaker Maximus Park (Lee Shorten) who found his fame all too quickly, no one else knows.
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