Beyond Clueless

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Beyond Clueless
Beyond Clueless poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Charlie Shackleton
Produced by
  • Anthony Ing
  • Billy Boyd Cape
  • Charlie Shackleton
  • Catherine Bray
Edited byCharlie Shackleton
Music by Summer Camp
Release dates
  • 10 March 2014 (2014-03-10)(SXSW)
  • 23 January 2015 (2015-01-23)(UK)
  • 29 April 2015 (2015-04-29)(France)
Running time
89 minutes [1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Beyond Clueless is a 2014 British documentary film about teen movies, directed by Charlie Shackleton, narrated by Fairuza Balk and with an original soundtrack by Summer Camp.

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Summary

The film features extracts from over 200 teen movies, [2] with a particular emphasis on those released between 1995 and 2004. [3]

Production

The film was funded on Kickstarter in January 2013 [4] and edited in Shackleton's bedroom. [5] It premiered at SXSW 2014 [6] and went on to play at film festivals including International Film Festival Rotterdam, [7] CPH:DOX [2] and Hot Docs. [8]

The title cards were designed by British artist Hattie Stewart. [9]

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References

  1. "Beyond Clueless". British Board of Film Classification. October 27, 2014. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Beyond Clueless". MUBI . Retrieved September 12, 2015.
  3. "Beyond Clueless: a golden age of the American teen movie". British Film Institute . Retrieved September 12, 2015.
  4. "Beyond Clueless". Kickstarter . Retrieved September 12, 2015.
  5. "Beyond Clueless might be our favourite documentary ever, so we talked to its maker Charlie Lyne". The Debrief. Retrieved September 12, 2015.
  6. "Beyond Clueless". South by Southwest . Retrieved September 13, 2015.
  7. "Beyond Clueless". International Film Festival Rotterdam. Archived from the original on September 12, 2015. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
  8. "Beyond Clueless". Hot Docs . Retrieved September 13, 2015.
  9. Steven., Wiedemann, Julius. Heller (2019). The illustrator : 100 best from around the world. Taschen. ISBN   978-3-8365-7337-5. OCLC   1128205131.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)