The Sweet Shop directing duo Mark & Louis pick up Grand Prix at Berlin International Film Festival

The Sweet Shop is proud to announce their directing duo Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland, collectively known as Mark & Louis, have picked up a Grand Prix at the Berlin International Film Festival for their feature ‘Shopping’.

Shopping, the duo’s first feature film is set in 1981 in a world of muscle cars, racial tensions and a thieving bird, all of which 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 Bennie’s hold over him grows Willie finds himself in over his head; and when Solomon is left to fend for himself at home, Willie’s two worlds collide with shattering consequences.

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Before Berlin the boys had success in the States and UK with Shopping premiering at the Sundance Film Festival and being privately screened at SoHo House in Los Angeles and the Curzon SoHo in London.

Says Sutherland: “It’s fantastic to have our work recognised at the Berlinale. It’s such a wonderful festival filled with people who know and love their film. Also, we really want to thank Princey and all The Sweet Shop team in LA and London for making us feel at home on tour. Especially Amanda and Morgan who did a brilliant job at organising everything for our Shopping screenings. Now, lets make some commercials.”