It is a really impressive new voice type American indie movie. The director Antonio Campos comes with this movie called ‘’Afterschool’’ that enlightens the dark secrets and sides of media age. This movie shows the bad things that can happen to the young people, the type’s of thing they think of, the perverted tastes for pleasure and other stuffs. This movie has been selected in many film festivals like Cannes, SXSW, Berlin and New York Film Festivals in 2008. This splendid movie was also nominated for Gotham Awards that include the Best Director and Independent Spirit award for the Best First Feature. The movie is a great success for the director and the movie has been praised by both audiences and critics. It is not like other teen age movie but a teenage movie that is different and meaningful. The story and making of the movie is great and the difference with other movie is clear.

The leading character of the movie is Robert who is a young American student. He studies at an elite East Coast Preparatory School. He suddenly takes picture of the horrifying death of two school girls. Then he is tasked with the memorializing the lives of those two girls with a film and that helped speeding up the healing process of the prep school.

Release Date: October 2, 2009
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Thriller
Starring: Rosemarie DeWitt, Jeremy Allen White, Michael Stuhlbarg, Addison Timlin, Rosemarie Dewitt, Gary Wilmes, Christopher Mccann
Director: Antonio Campos
Writer: Antonio Campos
Running Time: 2 hrs. 2 min.
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Distributors: IFC Films
Official Website: IFCFilms.com
Photos: Not Available
Review: Afterschool Review
Trailers: Afterschool Trailer

This movie has also been nominated for 2 categories of awards in the Gotham. The categories of the nominations in the Gotham include the Best Director category also. ‘Afterschool’ has also been nominated for The Independent Spirit Award for being the Best Feature film. ‘After School’ is a story about a young American student called Robert. Robert is a student of one of the most prestigious schools in the region, the East Cost preparatory school. Robert accidently captures an incident of horrific death of two girls in his camera. Robert was unaware of all this but the shoot happened all by an accident. Robert has been asked to memorize the lives of those 2 young girls in a film which is meant to speed up the process of healing up. However, Robert is caught in an unusual situation where he is trying to heel up and he is caught in deep trauma while doing this exercise. Thus the situation of Robert was very unfamiliar and he has to struggle in order to overcome this strange situation of trauma.

The Movie is a good piece of work from the director and the director has been able to catch upon the minute details of almost all the situations in this movie. This movie is a onetime watch for all as all the actors have put in their best effort to do justice to their characters.