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Summary

Hall, S. (2016, October 16). Road to growing up veers into the woods. Canberra Times. p. 9.
Nicholas Verso's Boys in the Trees is a companion-piece to Girl Asleep, which is also on release at the moment. Both are from South Australia, both have attracted attention on the festival circuit and both filter their accounts of adolescent rivalries, regrets and uncertainties through the prism of fantasy and fairytale. Their teenage heroes have to go into the woods to sort things out before they can feel ready to leave childhood behind.
IMDb. (2016). Boys in the Trees Synopsis. Retrieved from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3445580/plotsummary
It's Halloween 1997 - the last night of high school for Corey, Jango and their skater gang, The Gromits. Childhood is over and adult life beckons. But for Corey, his past has some unfinished business. When he encounters Jonah, a former childhood friend but now victimized by Jango's cruel streak, Corey takes pity on him and agrees to walk him home for old time's sake. What starts off as a normal walk through empty suburban streets descends into something darker and magical as they tell each other ghost stories, drawing upon their fears of the world around them. As they walk through their memories and ghosts of the past, Corey is surprised to discover how much he still has in common with his abandoned friend. But on the night of the grave's delight, even the most buried truths will find a way of coming to life.

Awards

IMDb. (2016). Boys in the Trees awards. Retrieved from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3445580/awards?ref_=ttexrv_sa_1
Boys in the Trees won the Austin Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival in 2016, it was nominated for an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards and an Australian Film Institute 2017.

Introduction

It's Halloween 1997 - the last night of high school for Corey, Jango and their skater gang, The Gromits. Childhood is over and adult life beckons. But for Corey, his past has some unfinished business. When he encounters Jonah, a former childhood friend but now victimized by Jango's cruel streak, Corey takes pity on him and agrees to walk him home for old time's sake. What starts off as a normal walk through empty suburban streets descends into something darker and magical as they tell each other ghost stories, drawing upon their fears of the world around them. As they walk through their memories and ghosts of the past, Corey is surprised to discover how much he still has in common with his abandoned friend. But on the night of the grave's delight, even the most buried truths will find a way of coming to life.

(IMDb. 2016)

Movie Trailer

Verso, N. (Director & Producer). (2106). The Boys in the Trees [Motion picture]. AUS: Mushroom Film Productions.

Nicholas Verso (Director)

Nicholas Verso. (2016). Nicholas Verso. Retrieved from http://www.nicholasverso.com/biography/
Nicholas began his career directing Super 8 music videos for musicians including Wendy Rule, Kerri Nicholas began his career directing Super 8 music videos for musicians including Wendy Rule, Kerri Simpson, Beki & The Bullets and The Cat Empire.

In 2016, he directed his debut feature film, Boys In The Trees, for Mushroom Pictures. This script won the NewDraft Award at NewFest 2011, received a rehearsed reading at the Lincoln Center in New York and was also nominated for the Monte Miller AWGIE Award. It will make its world premiere in September 2016 at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival and screen in cinemas across Australia from October 2016.

Interview with Nicholas Verso

Di Rosso, J. (2016, October 16). Interview with Nicholas Verso. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/finalcut/boys-in-the-trees/7949514
It feels like an urban legend told at a slumber party - earnest and creepy with a plot twist you see coming - but first time writer director Nicholas Verso’s delight is palpable.
Audio contains interview with director Nicholas Verso.

Critics

Morris, A. (2016, October 20). Boys in the Trees review: A grim fairy tale of adolescence. Retrieved from http://www.sbs.com.au/movies/review/boys-trees-review-grim-fairy-tale-adolescence
It’s easy to see why film-makers – especially Australian ones - are drawn to coming-of-age stories. They’re as much about mood as they are concrete events, a sense of time passing and things slipping away. But that vagueness can be a curse as well as a blessing; unless a director keeps their focus tight, they can end up with a film that’s little more than wistful longing, a series of hollow images that hint at moving on without having much of anything to say. Boys in the Trees has the wistful longing and memorable images down pat; the story itself is on slightly shakier ground.
Salty Popcorn. (2016, October 11). Boys in the trees. Retrieved from http://saltypopcorn.com.au/boys-in-the-trees/
Do you remember when you were a younger child and you had best mates, you were inseparable and truly loved them. Do you remember commencing school and discovering you wanted to hang with different people? Then you drifted away from your older best friend until you were just ships that passed each other in the ocean of the school corridor?