Burning Cane, a hard-edged tale of rural Louisiana, now on Netflix, is a remarkable feature debut by Youmans.
And he’s just 19…What were you doing when you were 17? A lot, probably: it’s a busy time, after all.
But between school, university applications and partying, chances are that making a feature film wasn’t high on your to-do list.
Had it been, even greater chances are that it wouldn’t have been much cop.New Orleans-born Phillip Youmans, on the other hand, is the obstinate exception.
Now 19 and in his first year at New York University, he has a whole film under his belt, made in his final year of high school and already amply travelled and rewarded on the festival circuit.
It slipped quietly on to Netflix earlier this month, with little fanfare, as if fully formed films by teenagers come along all the time and merit no special fanfare.
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