Private Project

Young Guns

When the students of Helgenæs Boarding School go hunting together, it is primarily about what gets shot and who shoots it. But for these youngsters, who seem to find themselves somewhere in between childhood and adulthood, the hunt is a focal point for a shared culture as well as an identity. It becomes their way of tackling the transition into adulthood.

  • Andreas Thaulow
    Director
  • Emil Johnsen
    Producer
  • Emil Johnsen
    Editor
  • Peter Sørensen
    Photographers
  • Jacob Gosch
    Photographers
  • Andreas Thaulow
    Photographers
  • Jeppe Astrup Sørensen
    Key Cast
    "Jeppe Astrup Sørensen"
  • Theis Thornholm Clausen
    Key Cast
    "Theis Thornholm Clausen"
  • Mikkel Schou Christiansen
    Key Cast
    "Mikkel Schou Christiansen"
  • Mark Vesterlund
    Graphics
  • Alexander Frank
    Subtitles
  • Anders Voss Jacobsen
    Subtitles
  • Jakob Høgel
    Film consultants
  • Marie Schmidt Olesen
    Film consultants
  • Anders Villadsen
    Editing consultant
  • Jian Zhi Zhang
    Colorgrade
  • Freja Printz
    Sound design
  • Andreas Thaulow
    Trailer Edit
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Genres:
    drama, teenager, hunting, friendship
  • Runtime:
    19 minutes 46 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 1, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    34,125 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Denmark
  • Country of Filming:
    Denmark
  • Language:
    Danish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital Sony FS7
  • Aspect Ratio:
    3:2
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Andreas Thaulow

Born October 29th 1980 in Trondheim. Andreas graduated as a writer/director from the Copenhagen-based filmmaker-community super 16 in 2012. His graduation film, Turbo was nominated for a danish academy award for best short fiction in 2013. His next short film, The Fall, a norwegian mountaineering-drama, has been screened and won awards in festivals around the world. The subject of mountaineering and outdoor adventurism became a bit of a fixation for Andreas after The Fall, and this led him to make a couple of short award winning documentaries about climbing in Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The persistent themes through all of his films stems from an urge to bring out the beauty and the extraordinary in the lives of ordinary people and a curiosity about outsiders: How we, as members of the human species, define our identities through our belonging –or opposition– to different groups and communities. In addition to his documentary work, Andreas completed another short film, Pistol, in 2016 and he continues to develop new screenplays for his next fictional project.

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Director Statement

DIRECTORS STATEMENT

Through the last six years as a film director, I have gained a growing interest in people who undertake a discipline in an extreme manner. This pure monomaniac personality delves into some minor field of interest, only to realize that almost everything in the universe leads back to this exact thing. He or she wonders why the rest of the world does not seem to notice. These characters are fascinating and easy to care for. I would also characterize myself as a monomaniac on a serial basis. At times, I find myself exploring a particular subject, whilst my interest in other things completely evaporates. This can be very tiresome for me as well as my family, but I still love to explore new worlds with its own social codes and language, even when it demands patience and openness to the unknown.

I find it fascinating how a hobby or an interest shapes a person. To manage a discipline perfectly produces pride and joy. Typically there is a community, a bigger global culture and a predetermined set of ethics rules which is deeply interwoven in different fields of interests. The specific interest is therefore tangled up in our character and behavior. By exploring the hunting discipline in a Boarding School, we were given a special opportunity to observe this building of character within a group of teenagers. In this particular age, the monomaniac features seem to be much more explicit than in other stages of life.

The very first time we met the hunting students, they all got in line to shake our hands. This way of acknowledging another person entering the room by proudly presenting oneself, was a very striking act, which differs from what you would normally expect from a teenager. Their way of speaking and dressing displays a general belief of being someone, who does not need anyone else in life. This belief separates this particular group of teenagers from the norm, by believing in traditional values, which ordinarily stems from older generations. This is what we were drawn by and what became our entrance for exploring the important role of community for the individual.

Andreas Thaulow