Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Somers Town [videorecording] / Tomboy Films and Mother Vision present a Big Arty production ; screenplay, Paul Fraser ; producer, Barnaby Spurrier ; director, Shane Meadows.

Publisher, Date:

[New York] : Film Movement, [2009]

Description:

1 videodisc (70 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Tomo, just turned sixteen, and released from social care, runs away to London from a lonely difficult life in the Midlands. Marek, a Polish immigrant, lives with his father who drinks with his friends most evenings after working on a construction site. Marek is a keen photographer, quiet and sensitive. He is not comfortable in his father's world. Both struggle to make sense of their new world, and a chance meeting in Somers Town, London leads the two to form an unexpected partnership.

Series:

Film Movement series ; year 7, film 8.

Film Movement series ; v. 7, film 8.

Subjects:

Friendship -- England -- London -- Drama.

Teenagers -- England -- London -- Drama.

Feature films.

Foreign films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Meadows, Shane, 1972-

Fraser, Paul, 1973-