Royal Oak Film Society Michigan Presents Premiere of 'The Dirties'

The Royal Oak Film Society and Slamdance on the Road is pleased to announce the Michigan premiere of 2013 Slamdance Film Festival winner of Best Narrative Feature, “The Dirties”. 

The Main Art Theatre in downtown Royal Oak will be the host facility for the event on Wednesday, April 17 at 7 p.m.  A portion of the proceeds will benefit Mandy’s Brain Fund. This is a fund that was set-up to help support the medical costs of Mandy Wilson, a strong supporter of Slamdance Film Festival who is recovering from a depressed skull fracture.

The Royal Oak Film Society is, a non-profit corporation whose mission is to enrich and promote Greater Detroit’s creative culture through film, conversation, and community.  The Director/Lead Actor and Producer of “The Dirties” will be at the event to do a Q&A session after the premiere. 

About the film, “The Dirties”:

Two best friends think it would be funny to make a movie about killing the bullies at their school. One of them isn't joking.

SYNOPSIS: Matt is a film-obsessed misfit trying to become a famous director within the confines of his grade 12 video class. Owen is his best friend and faithful collaborator. “The Dirties” is their greatest epic to date, in which they play renegade detectives combating a local gang. In real life, however, Matt and Owen are the submissive targets of relentless bullies, who never miss an opportunity to mock or physically harass them. But Matt and Owen secretly hope that their movie will change everything. Stocked with crude jokes, foul language, and gleeful violence, this ‘class project’ seems likely to blow everybody’s minds. But their media teacher (one of their few allies) surprises them when he refuses to screen the movie as is. Matt and Owen are crushed by the changes they’re forced to make, and the class watches a watered-down version that feels full of holes and cheesy as hell.  On their walk home from school they are attacked, yet again, and as a manner of venting they entertain each other in Matt’s basement with plans for a new project, in which they swap their plastic guns for real ones, and remake the movie as a documentary. Owen is clearly enjoying the fantasy of it, but Matt seems a little more serious. Shortly thereafter he visits city hall to acquire blueprints of the school.  All the while the boys have been concocting harmless schemes to try and win Owen some leverage with Chrissy, his childhood crush, who at first seemed way out of his league. But as their hijinks escalate, and partly pay-off, it begins to look like he may actually have a shot with her. Suddenly Owen seems to have a lot more going for him than Matt, who is sustained only by his grand plans for cinematic revenge. Owen becomes worried that Matt is beginning to take the joke too far – pinning up pictures of the bullies on a ‘kill-board’, charting out a plan of attack, and yet never admitting that he’s at all troubled by the abuse he’s endured. Matt continues to act like this is all just part of a movie, refusing to acknowledge the real world implications. Eventually Owen calls Matt out on his absurd revenge plan, and implies that they have nothing in common anymore. He storms out of Matt’s life, and thus fractures the sense of whimsy that Matt has relied on to remain sane. Whether or not he was serious in the beginning, Matt now represents a very real danger to all who have earned his disdain.

For more information on this event, please visi www.royaloakfilmsociety.org. 

Source: Royal Oak Film Society