Boyhood (film) Boyhood (film) Boyhood is a 2014 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater, and Ethan Hawke. Filmed from 2001 to 2013, "Boyhood" depicts the childhood and adolescence of Mason Evans Jr. (Coltrane) from ages six to eighteen as he grows up in Texas with divorced parents (Arquette and Hawke). Richard Linklater's daughter Lorelei plays Mason's sister, Samantha. Production began in 2001 and finished in 2013, with Linklater's goal to make a film about growing up. The project began without a completed script, with only basic plot points and the
Camera (2014 film) woman named Clare. Po-Chih Leong, director James Leong's father, appears in a cameo as Ming's father. Prior to production, Leong received funding from the Network of Asian Fantastic Films in the form of the Puchon award. Shooting took place during January and February 2012 in Hong Kong. "Camera" premiered at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival on July 19, 2014. Richard Kuipers of "Variety" wrote that the film fails to live up to its premise and does not expand enough on Hong Kong's futuristic timeline, though he said it "never becomes dull". Bérénice Reynaud of "Senses of Cinema" criticized the