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Billy the kid - Penny Baker, Billy P, Heather Pelletier, Jennifer Venditti
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Movie propaganda
“I'm not black, I'm not white, not foreign… just different in the mind - different brains, that's all…”
A sensitive and humorous vérité portrait of Billy, a 15-year-old outsider growing up in small-town Maine, USA. Billy appears, in many ways, like other teenage boys. He's into heavy metal and martial arts, is desperate to find a girlfriend and aspires to a career as an actor and rock star. Yet in other ways Billy is unique. A troubled past and ongoing behavioural issues have left him marked. But he is unapologetic about his personality and refuses to be victimised, creating his own techniques to help him survive in an environment of pain, conformity, and prejudice. Billy is funny, sharp, strangely wise for his age, and remarkably candid. We witness life from his perspective - from intimate conversations with his mother, to being bullied at school, to his fantasies of becoming a superhero. We also experience the exhilarating pangs of first love as Billy pursues Heather, a shy 16-year-old waitress. Will Billy get the girl? Will his community accept him on his own terms? Billy the kid challenges viewers to imagine themselves beyond labels.
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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
- Film documentary teen teenager growing up Maine USA social outsider misfit issues behaviour school
Persons of interest
- Penny Baker .... Herself
- Billy P .... Himself
- Heather Pelletier .... Herself
- Jennifer Venditti .... Director
Cinematic intelligence sources
- Billy the kid official movie site
- Billy the kid film production notes
- Billy the kid QuickTime movie trailers
- Awards and film festivals:
- Edinburgh International Film Festival 2007: Won: Best Feature Documentary Award, Best Documentary (Jennifer Venditti)
- Los Angeles Film Festival 2007: Won: Best Documentary (Jennifer Venditti)
- Melbourne International Film Festival 2007: Won: Most Popular Documentary (Jennifer Venditti)
- SXSW Film Festival 2007: Won: Best Documentary (Jennifer Venditti)
- Studios and distributors:
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Theatrical report
The documentary, teen movie Billy the kid is directed by Jennifer Venditti and stars Penny Baker, Billy P, Heather Pelletier.
Government security censorship classification
PG (Mild themes and infrequent coarse language)
Surveillance time
85 minutes (1:25 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
Film: Undated 2008
DVD retail: 16 October 2008
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