Adityavikram Gupta, producer of Stealing Suburbia, a 22-minute short film that was screened at the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival tells us why his film, based on the true story of Washington-based teen outlaw Colton Harris-Moore, is the tale of a kid's zeal to escape his sordid situation and live out his dream of flying

Colton Harris-Moore was charged with stealing aircraft, a boat, two cars and burgling at least 100 residences in various locations around the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada. In 2010, he was arrested in the Bahamas and deported to Washington, where he is awaiting trial. He was often called the 'Barefoot Bandit' since he committed some of his crimes barefoot. US-based Adityavikram Gupta and David Shapiro have made a film on him called Stealing Suburbia. Read excerpts of the interview with Gupta, who produced the film.


Director David Shapiro and producer Adityavikram Gupta during
the shoot of Stealing Suburbia