Amy George
Original title: Amy George
Youth drama – Canada
Production year: 2010
Movie length: 98 minutes
Production year: 2010
Movie length: 98 minutes
Director: Yonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas
Writer: Yonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas
Cinematograph: Yonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas
Music: Lev Lewis
Writer: Yonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas
Cinematograph: Yonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas
Music: Lev Lewis
Movie description:
Thirteen year old Jesse wants to be an artist, but believes that his mundane middle class Toronto life has left him unprepared. After reading a book on what it takes to be a »true-artist«, he sets out looking for risk, ecstasy, wildness and women.
Thirteen year old Jesse is assigned a school project. A photographic self-portrait intended to portray one’s self without resorting to literal representation. Jesse lives with his parents, Sabi and Tim, in the lefty, middle class Toronto neighbourhood of Riverdale. A quiet and distant only-child with budding artistic aspirations, Jesse is inspired by the assignment to look for excitement and meaning in the world around him. Wielding a newly-acquired camera, Jesse sets out to capture his surroundings, but soon realizes the undramatic nature of his family, neighbourhood and existence.
Meanwhile, Sabi and Tim find themselves questioning Jesse’s developing character as they watch him abandon his childhood personality and mature into an uncommunicative adolescent. Frustrated by his lack of inspiration, Jesse discovers a book in the school library which advises him: »You can never be a real artist until you have made love to a woman.« Taking the text at face value and with the encouragement of a family friend, Jesse begins to look for incident, both foreign and adult, which leads him to an encounter with his young, female neighbour, Amy. Peering into her window at night, he snaps a quick photograph of her.
Days later, the two are inadvertently reunited, allowing Jesse an opportunity to explore his prepubescent fascination with the opposite sex. After a long evening of games, exploration and hypnosis, Jesse awakes with confusion and guilt, unsure whether or not he may have overstepped his boundaries. The question of rape consumes his thoughts and Jesse is left struggling to reconcile his uneasy mind.
»Amy George« tells the story of Jesse , the thirteen-year-old only child of Toronto intellectuals. Jesse is given a school art assignment for which he’s asked to incorporate autobiographical elements. Reading somewhere that »you can never be a true artist until you have made love to a woman«, Jesse endeavours to overcome this handicap.
Jesse is not your typical teenager. He isn’t hooked on videogames, phones or the internet. He gets his mother to buy an analogue camera. There is no television in his home. There is, however, a piano to play, a library filled with books and a couch on which to read – but none of this feeds his new obsession with the opposite sex. So he looks elsewhere: first at school, where a friendship with a classmate may or may not turn into something else, and then through the window of his new neighbour, the eponymous Amy.
Thirteen year old Jesse is assigned a school project. A photographic self-portrait intended to portray one’s self without resorting to literal representation. Jesse lives with his parents, Sabi and Tim, in the lefty, middle class Toronto neighbourhood of Riverdale. A quiet and distant only-child with budding artistic aspirations, Jesse is inspired by the assignment to look for excitement and meaning in the world around him. Wielding a newly-acquired camera, Jesse sets out to capture his surroundings, but soon realizes the undramatic nature of his family, neighbourhood and existence.
Meanwhile, Sabi and Tim find themselves questioning Jesse’s developing character as they watch him abandon his childhood personality and mature into an uncommunicative adolescent. Frustrated by his lack of inspiration, Jesse discovers a book in the school library which advises him: »You can never be a real artist until you have made love to a woman.« Taking the text at face value and with the encouragement of a family friend, Jesse begins to look for incident, both foreign and adult, which leads him to an encounter with his young, female neighbour, Amy. Peering into her window at night, he snaps a quick photograph of her.
Days later, the two are inadvertently reunited, allowing Jesse an opportunity to explore his prepubescent fascination with the opposite sex. After a long evening of games, exploration and hypnosis, Jesse awakes with confusion and guilt, unsure whether or not he may have overstepped his boundaries. The question of rape consumes his thoughts and Jesse is left struggling to reconcile his uneasy mind.
»Amy George« tells the story of Jesse , the thirteen-year-old only child of Toronto intellectuals. Jesse is given a school art assignment for which he’s asked to incorporate autobiographical elements. Reading somewhere that »you can never be a true artist until you have made love to a woman«, Jesse endeavours to overcome this handicap.
Jesse is not your typical teenager. He isn’t hooked on videogames, phones or the internet. He gets his mother to buy an analogue camera. There is no television in his home. There is, however, a piano to play, a library filled with books and a couch on which to read – but none of this feeds his new obsession with the opposite sex. So he looks elsewhere: first at school, where a friendship with a classmate may or may not turn into something else, and then through the window of his new neighbour, the eponymous Amy.
Boy Actors
Gabriel del Castillo Mullally
(Jesse, 13 years old)
(Jesse, 13 years old)
Year of birth: 1997
Age of the actor:
approximately 12 years old
Age of the actor:
approximately 12 years old
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