SNOWTOWN New Auteurs

In his feature film debut, director Justin Kurzel brings to the screen the horrifying true story of Australia’s most notorious serial killer. 16-year-old Jamie lives with his mother and brothers in a rundown Adelaide suburb. Longing to escape the violence and hopelessness that mark his daily life, Jamie finds salvation when he meets a charismatic father-figure named John Bunting. A friendship forms between the two and soon Jaime finds himself drown into Bunting’s attempts to “clean up” the neighborhood with brutal torture and murder. With amazing performances from first-time actors Lucas Pittaway and Daniel Henshall, Kurzel doesn’t merely re-tell the story of these murders, but instead provides a stork journey into a feral subculture of welfare dependence, addiction, domestic violence, brutality and sexual abuse .