Pure Scum - Lorne Screening
Location
Lorne Theatre
About
After a drug-fuelled car crash, ex-private schoolboys Ayden and Jesse escape into the Melbourne CBD and are plunged into a night of unbridled debauchery and rapidly escalating violence.
Official Selection at SXSW Sydney 2025 and Fantastic Film Festival Australia 2025 - Audience Award Winner.
Set in Melbourne, Australia, two recently graduated private schoolboys – Ayden, a book-smart prodigy turned drug dealer, and Jesse, a charismatic, rebellious spirit two years his elder – collide with another car late at night and fl ee to the city to escape the consequences. Amid a looming police presence, they decide to completely embrace the night and bury their troubles with various forms of escapism, which quickly become more and more perilous.
“It’s like Uncut Gems but with way more bogans” Letterboxd (01/05/2025)
DIRECTOR
Gideon Aroni
CAST
Will Hutchins, Nikita Chronis, Gideon Aroni, Jess Zuker, Rebecca Howell, Joe Petruzzi, Lachlan Sproul, Morgan Godfrey, Linden Compassi, Paul Moder