• Pre-screening the cast came on stage and said hello. Most of them hadn't seen the film yet, meaning the stars were also probably the most enthusiastic fans on hand. From left: Dion, Dillon, Craig, Jack (F.), Yadin, Chippa, Conner, Kolohe, Evan, Mitch, Dane, director Kai Neville and emcee Mitch Tomlinson.
  • This is Dion with Paul Fisher. They've appeared together in such classics as the ninth grade, when Paul's crew of friends was already getting headies in class to the horror of a young Dion, and in What Youth's 4-part documentary series on Dion, in which they both talk about those days.
  • This fellow won the big surf contest! Here's Julian Wilson with his girlfriend Ashley three days before he became US Open champ and traded Corona for magnums of the finest champagne and a truly unholy sabbath.
  • Kolohe in his fancy reflective NSW jacket. Those are eyeballs painted on this girl's fingernails, and knowing so makes the photo make a little more sense.
  • Jen and Alexa here had a lovely evening and think Dear Suburbia is just fantastic. I don't know their real names!
  • Those white picket fences are suburbia. That human sprawl is so suburbia. And a Skechers store in the background — so suburbia it stings.
  • Craig has the first wave in the film and the most waves in his hair.
  • Yadin and Kai mug for the flash but in the back right corner there is Beren Hall, who helped film second angle on RED for the New Zealand section in Dear Suburbia and who deserves a humble party-photo-caption thank you. Beren is also Craig and Dion's manager. He's a polymath.
  • Coco Ho and professional snowboarder Elena Hight were both present, and looked divine, didn't they?
  • Courtney and Kurt and what seems to be that characteristic scent of teen spirit.
  • Evan with his friend Oliver Kurtz. Too much shirt buttoning on the left, not enough on the right. Someday we'll find an answer.
  • Here's Jay Davies with what I suspect is not actually rum in his Brugal cup because he told me once he can't stand rum. Jay is in the film too, in a section with Kolohe and Jack Robinson that's outstanding.
  • From left are Riley Blakeway (now working on the new Analog picture Chromatic, which should be really something), Taj Burrow (who's really something), Chippa (who's in Chromatic) and Fish (who's just something else, in the best possible way). Australianest photograph of 2012.
  • Alana did not make the film but see it anyway.
  • When you direct grand cinema, girls named Jody who run fashion boutiques called Le Deux on the sunny Gold Coast just kiss your face. And that's the end of the gallery. What a night.
Pre-screening the cast came on stage and said hello. Most of them hadn't seen the film yet, meaning the stars were also probably the most enthusiastic fans on hand. From left: Dion, Dillon, Craig, Jack (F.), Yadin, Chippa, Conner, Kolohe, Evan, Mitch, Dane, director Kai Neville and emcee Mitch Tomlinson.
DEAR SUBURBIA: NIGHT OF THE WORLD PREMIERE PHOTOS FROM THE UNGODLY GOOD TIME WE HAD IN HUNTINGTON BEACH
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Last Thursday on the two-lane pavement of 5th Street in Huntington, we premiered Dear Suburbia to the world.

It was really the place to be.

These are just a dozen or so 60ths of a second from a party that began around 5 and ended around the same time the next morning, in bars and beds and taxicabs all over town.

All photos by lifewithoutandy.com, where you can see way more photos from the evening than we have time to caption.

Now Dear Suburbia, its director, its stars, and we at What Youth are on the road bringing the film cross-country in a series of indie flask-and-red-cup premieres, one of which is probably near you. See dates and locations here.

To everyone who came last Thursday, thanks, and sorry about your morning.

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