EMO the Musical short film
The feature version is legally available for free on YouTube watch here was first released in Australia on 4 May 2017 before premiering Melbourne International Film Festival locally, and the Berlin International Film Festival internationally. It also screened on Netflix Australia for a brief period.
This is the short film version the feature film is based on. This short film was showcased at the 2014 Berlinale award-winning short and is written and directed by Nick Triffett and produced by Lee Matthews.
e·mo [ i mṓ ] An entire subculture of people (usually angsty teens) with a fake personality. Emo Ethan has just been expelled from private-school after attempting suicide in the courtyard. On his first day at his new school – the dilapidated Seymour High – he meets Trinity, a totally naive but cute Christian girl who is desperate to convert him to Jesus. But joining the Christian evangelists’ Hope Group is the last thing on Ethan’s mind. What he really wants is to join the school alternative rock band ‘Worst Day Ever’ and to be part of the Emo clique, led by the enigmatic and dangerous Bradley. After a successful audition, Ethan is welcomed into the Emo world and embraces his image – complete with black eye-liner and coupled up with a violently possessive girlfriend, Roz. But Ethan can’t stop thinking about Trinity, who is herself stuck in a restrictive world of dogma and denial, and they secretly fall in love. With the looming annual State School Rock Competition bringing tensions in the school to an all time high, and with the burgeoning turf war between the Hope Group and the Emos set to explode at any moment, Ethan is forced to confront the harebrained actions of his friends and question who he has become.
