Beach Boy

Director

Emil Langballe

Producer

Emil Langballe

Cinematographer

Emil Langballe

Editor

John Murphy

Sound

Martin Hansen

Contact

National Film and Television School
Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Buckinghamshire
+44 1494 671234
[email protected]

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2013

United Kingdom

27 min

Color

Like the majority of young Kenyans, Juma dreams of a better life abroad. His girlfriend has left to work in Qatar, allowing the young man to fully thrust himself into his work as a “companion” to elderly European women who spend their vacations at local resort hotels. Danish filmmaker Emil Langballe records in detail what appears to be a budding love affair between Juma and 50-year-old British woman named Lynn. The documentary turns out to be a real-life version of Ulrich Seidl’s feature Paradise: Love, investigating local female sex tourism based on a false sense of romance.

Directors' Biography

Emil Langballe (b. 1982 in Odense) is an independent Danish filmmaker based in Copenhagen, and a recent graduate of the British National Film and Television School. ‘Beach Boy’ which is his graduation film from the NFTS, recently won the prize for Best Short Documentary at the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

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