chasing 20

A “piece-a-pie productions” FILM
WRITTEN BY Alison Davie

A dare one night at a party to try some ‘E’ is all it takes to get Jamie hooked and soon Jamie’s 17 year old life spirals out of control as getting his next 20 bucks to help get his next fix is what his life becomes about. As he explains, ‘…it’s easier to get people to part with 20 bucks than 100.”

Soon school, rugby and homework is replaced with drugs, crime and prostitution as a now homeless Jamie finds himself living rough on the streets of Auckland. He befriends Dylan and Kaylee a few years his senior and he soon falls in love with Kaylee. Together they all struggle to survive in their drug dependant world.

One night as Jamie and Kaylee return back to the abandoned house they now call home, they discover Dylan’s drug ridden lifeless body. Jamie buries Dylan in the back yard as a tear stained Kaylee watches on. However, even this harsh reality check is not enough to get Jamie back on track, but Kaylee wants out. She wants to leave and clean up her act and begs Jamie to come with her but he wont, so she leaves without him.

Kaylee, now 8 weeks clean returns to find Jamie to get him out. Will she get Jamie out before she gets sucked back in?

Chasing 20 is a hard hitting and raw look at the drug crazed epidemic affecting the generation of today.