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Somers Town (2008) Movie Trailer

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http://www.CentralMovieNetwork.com/tmd.htmSomers Town (film)Somers Town is a 2008 film directed by Shane Meadows, written by Paul Fraser and produced by Barnaby Spurrier.
Starring Thomas Turgoose, Piotr Jagiello, Kate Dickie, Perry Benson, and Elisa Lasowski.Somers Town follows two teenage boys Tomo and Marek, adrift in an adult world, who develop a mutual trust and acceptance through an unlikely friendship.
Tomo runs away to London from a lonely, difficult life in the Midlands.
Through a chance encounter he meets Marek, a Polish immigrant living with his father in Somers Town, central London.
Unknown to his father, Marek begins hiding Tomo in his flat and the two boys go on little adventures, stealing clothes from a laundromat and earning money from an eccentric neighbour, Graham while sharing a growing obsession for Maria, the French waitress at their local café.The film is a black-and-white study of a social environment in London.
Filming took place entirely in and immediately around Phoenix Court, a low rise council property in Purchese street.It was originally conceived as a short film which began as a nine or ten-minute concept, with just a handful of pages, but they quickly realised it was growing into something larger.
Meadows deliberately avoided pinning a set length to it.The film was shown at the Berlin and Tribeca Film Festivals.
At Tribeca, stars Thomas Turgoose and Piotr Jagiello jointly shared the award for Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film.
It had its UK premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival on 20 June 2008, where it won the Michael Powell Award, the festival’s highest award.Surprisingly, the film was produced by advertising agency Mother as a covert advertising campaign for their client, Eurostar, a European train service.
Jonah Bloom, a columnist from Advertising Age, writes,It’s a film from British director Shane Meadows that won best film at the Edinburgh and Berlin film festivals and the best-actor award at Tribeca, although it didn’t make it past the shortlist for the Titanium.
Mother made the film on behalf of client Eurostar, the train service that connects London to Paris and Brussels and has a terminal in St.
Pancras near the Somers Town estate.
It cost less than the average 30-second spot to make, is expected to be seen by millions without any media buy and tests as having a positive ROI in terms of prompting people to book train trips.
Yet even the most cynical viewer would never guess it was funded by a corporation.
This is the best incidence of art meeting commerce since Leo McGarry was induced to fall off the wagon by a glass of Johnnie Walker Blue Label in the “Bartlet for America” episode of “The West Wing.”en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somers_Town_(film)