EMOTION IS DEAD is a new indie feature film Written & Directed by local boy Pete Williams. He'll be in Port Augusta for one night only to present the film and host a post-screening Q&A.

The film's already been dubbed 'The Most South Aussie Story Ever Told' and is kick-starting it's Australia-wide cinema tour in metro & rural South Australia.

THE STORY // BROCK is a teenage skateboarder suffering from a recent family tragedy connected to the Holden Elizabeth Plant (Australia’s last auto factory). He comes up with a unique money-making scheme that tangles him up in Adelaide’s criminal underworld and only his Peter Brock obsessed mum & emo ex-girlfriend can save him from a terrifying fate. Based on true events.

GENRE // Crime/Thriller

RUN TIME // 89 Minutes

WRITER/DIRECTOR // PETE WILLIAMS (The New Breed)

PRODUCER // BRIAN HAYES (Hotel Mumbai)

CAST // TATIANA GOODE (A Sunburnt Christmas), ADAM TUOMINEN (Power Rangers), JUDE TURNER, BRAD McCARTHY, GABBY LLEWELYN, JAYA SUARTIKA & ISI SWEENEY.

CLASSIFICATION // MA15+

FILM FESTIVALS // Premiered at ADELAIDE FILM FEST (October, 2023)

SOUNDTRACK // The films soundtrack includes EMO BANGERS from Alkaline Trio, Dashboard Confessional, The Get Up Kids, Jimmy Barnes, The Juliana Theory, Superdose Gangway, Taking Back Sunday, TOWNS, Underøath & The Used.

KINDA LIKE // Snowtown, Parasite, 20th Century Women, Donnie Darko, Two Hands.

TOUR WEBSITE // https://www.emotionisdead.com.au/

"It’s like the Heaps Good of cinema" --THE ADVERTISER

"Ambitious and engaging. As a love letter to emo, to skateboarding and especially to the northern suburbs of Adelaide, it is very endearing" --FILM HUB

EMOTION IS DEAD | The Adelaide Advertiser — The Advertiser

EMOTION IS DEAD | One Sheet — Official Poster

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