"New Zealand, 1981: muscle cars, racial tensions and a thieving bird all inform the small town life of brothers Willie and Solomon. After a chance encounter with charismatic thief Bennie and his close-knit gang of shoppers, Willie is seduced into a criminal world that allows him to escape mounting tensions with his volatile father. But as Bennies hold over him grows Willie finds himself in over his head; and when Solomon is left to fend for himself at home, Willies two worlds collide with shattering consequences."
Shopping was shot on the Kapiti Coast and in Wellington, New Zealand. The films cast includes Jacek Koman (Moulin Rouge, Australia, Defiance, The Hunter) as Bennie, Alistair Browning (Rain) as Terry and introduces Kevin Paulo as Willie and Julian Dennison as Solomon.
The film had world premiere at the 2013 Sundance International Film Festival, and premiered in Europe in the competitive Generation 14plus programme of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival.
--NZ Film Commission