Turbo Kid
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Decades after the apocalypse, the world has been left in a permanent nuclear winter. A lonely young orphan called The Kid roams the wasteland scavenging for comic books and paraphernalia from the 80s. He trades knick-knacks for fresh water, the most valuable commodity in this land forsaken by toxins. His routine existence is disrupted when he runs into the mysterious (and highly excitable) Apple. When she is kidnapped by a bounty hunter working for Zeus, the sadistic and overly-garrulous leader of the Wasteland, The Kid must confront his fears and embark on an incredible journey to rid the Wasteland of evil and to save the girl of his dreams.
RKSS
RKSS (Roadkill Superstars) is a filmmaking trio consisting of Québécois film directors François Simard, Anouk Whissel, and Yoann-Karl Whissell. They are known for writing and directing their debut feature film Turbo Kid (2015) and the horror mystery film Summer of 84 (2018). The group have been making short films since the mid-2000s, and cited their 2004 short Le Bagman as the first that "got an audience to follow [their] work", additionally crediting Total Fury (2007) and Demonitron (2010) as projects that further defined their style and technique. In 2011, the trio submitted a short to the anthology film The ABCs of Death (2012), which features 26 short films based on each letter of the English alphabet. The film's producers Ant Timpson and Tim League held a competition seeking unknown directors to create a short for the letter "T", and the group submitted T is for Turbo, which placed third in the competition and was included on the film's home release. Impressed with their work, Timpson approached them to develop the short into the feature film Turbo Kid. The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Summer of 84 also premiered at Sundance and was released to streaming as a Shudder-exclusive film in 2018.
