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Blow is a short film funded by the Australian Film Commission and developed by writer/director Marie Craven and producer Lizzette Atkins. Essentially a teen comedy-drama, it portrays the sexual frustrations and eventual awakening of young Becky, inexplicably afflicted with compulsive sneezing.
Blow's dramatic tone is naturalistic but wry in observational slant and affectionately sardonic. Entirely non-condescending to its teen characterization (a rarity for Australain cinema trapped in having to parody teens rather than give them a voice of any substance), the film places Becky at the centre of an overbearing adult world. Surrounded by sexual tensions, advances, obessessions and distractions, her climate might be the course of her mysterious sneezing.
BLOW premiered at the 50th Melbourne International Film Festival in 2001.The score to Blow will be released on the CD Filmmusic Vol.3 by Sound Punch Records in 2012.
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