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ASHES AND SAND

The movie version of Judy's play (Winner of the George Devine Award - 1994). 

The film was produced by Open Road and Matador Pictures. The film directed by Bob Blagden, was shot in Brighton and London from 25 February 2002. It was premiered at the Brighton Film Festival.

Synopsis: Hayley's gang of 14 year-old riot girls are on the rampage, mugging young male tourists on Brighton's sea-front. Hayley is half-adolescent and half-woman, as raw and violent as any male counterpart, and just as calculating. Hayley is determined that they will escape their poverty, their crumbling families and dead end prospects by stealing enough money to leave Brighton. The gang thinks she wants to go to London. But secretly Hayley has almost saved up enough money to take them to Bali, a tropical paradise full, she imagines, of beautiful, androgynous young men. Here she and the gang will find the happiness they crave.

When Hayley sees Daniel, a young detective, arresting a robbery suspect she is transfixed. Charismatic, handsome, tough, but also strangely vulnerable, he personifies her desires. She falls in love and lust. She must have him at any cost.

Release Details

The film had a cinematic release in various countries including Australia, and is now available on DVD overseas. Illustrated are the Italian DVD (as "Fourteen, un anno dopo"), and the cool Romanian cover. UK and US DVD release is expected shortly.

See the official Ashes and Sand film site for further details, and some great stills from the shoot. 

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