PARANOID PARK
Filmfest 2016
USA 2007
Original version
(Original: English)
Director: Gus Van Sant
Section: Open Air | Grind! Slide! Skate!
Based on the novel by Blake Nelson. “The title of Gus Van Sant's "Paranoid Park" refers to a rough skateboard park underneath a bridge in Portland, Oregon -- a place where, they say, "dead bodies" are buried beneath the contoured cement. It also describes the confused conscience of Alex (Gabe Nevins), the emotionally isolated teenager who narrates the movie and who actually sounds like a teenager while doing it. In voiceover, Alex reads aloud from his journal as if he were delivering a book report in class, but he's trying to confess the darkest secret of his young life.” –Jim Emerson
Cast: Gabe Nevins, Dan Liu, Jake Miller, Taylor Momsen
Credits
Screenplay: Gus Van Sant
Original Material: Blake Nelson
Director of Photography: Christopher Doyle
Film Editor: Gus Van Sant
Production Designer: John Pearson-Denning
Costume Design: Chapin Simpson
Sound: Leslie Shatz
Producer: Neil Kopp, David Cress
Co-Producer: Marin Karmitz, Nathanaël Karmitz
Production Company: MK2 Productions
Co-Production Company: Meno Film Company
World Sales: MK2 S.A.
Director: Gus Van Sant
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