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Youth In Trouble

In the roundabout of faith, the young get а fast ride!

Producers: Atanas Georgiev

Dejan Iliev

Kornelija Ristovska

Writer/Director: Dimitar Orovcanec

DOP: Vladimir Samoilovski

Production Designer: Sasho Blazevski

Costumes: Ilina Cholak

Editor: Sofija Samoilovska Jovanovik

Music: Darko Spasovski & Igor Vasilev – Novogradska

Make up & Hair: Zaneta Dimitrievska

Casting Director: Kirijana A. Nikoloska


Main Cast: Mia Giraud

Martin Gjorgoski

Stefan Spasov

Youth In Trouble

A teen ballerina, her crazy in love boyfriend and his sketchy best friend

with a stolen gun, get stuck in the deepest labyrinths of crime’s

underworld over a misplaced cell phone that contains a compromising

video.

Director Information:

Dimitar Orovcanec

Born June 1978, Dimitar is a film & video writer/director. He began his

career as a writer/director on the feature documentary film 'Olga' a.k.a.

'Olga's Journey' produced by the Emmy Award Winning Producer Peter Rosen.

This was preceded and followed by several award-winning short films. For

over a decade later he wrote and directed over 80 TV commercials and

music videos for numerous advertising agencies and video production

companies. He has also directed TV documentaries and TV shows in his

home country of Macedonia along with a handful of theater productions.

His debut narrative feature film 'Youth in Trouble' produced by the

Academy Award nominated producer Atanas Georgiev is currently on the

festival circuit.

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A mischievous teen ballerina mistakes her cell phone with that of an

unsuspecting sex trade victim during a costume rehearsal of „Swan Lake“.

In full feathery outfit and stage makeup, she chases the younger girl

to retrieve her phone alongside her madly in love skater boyfriend. As

they reach the girl and subsequently her pimp, they realize that the

phone they have contains a compromising video of a politician running

for office. Parallel to their escapade, there is the story of the

boyfriend’s best friend who steals a gun from his policeman dad to

protect himself from a loan-sharking gang for owing them money. Once the

ballerina, her boyfriend and his best friend realize what’s in their

possession, their naïve teen dreams of extortion and quick cash put them

in crossfire between the pimp who made the video, an aging blood-thirsty

police investigator and the loan-sharking gang who realize that they are

onto something once they get a hold of the cell phone.


DIRECTORS STATEMENT

This is a story where I put all of life’s little truths and situations

that I have been subconsciously collected from my own experiences for

years, as well as carefully portraying real people I have met or known

of. It’s a film where seemingly ordinary individuals are thrown into a

position where they have to face extreme situations and how it reveals

unexpected character traits in them; a fairytale-like story with colorful

characters and dialogues set on an urban backdrop. It explores man’s

cruelty as omnipresent, but, no matter how negative many of the

characters are, they still abound in black humor - some form of

humaneness, which is the mainstay of everything the final film is all

about: the pointlessness of evil, the stupidity in aggression, the need

for always just a little more love, the beauty and the madness of youth.

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