Former SBS Movie Show presenter and cult film revolutionary Jaimie Leonarder prepares to unleash lashings of incongruous frivolity at BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE SPOOL SNATCHERS. Featuring as part of the 2009 Adelaide Fringe Festival and screening at the MERCURY CINEMA, over six days Spool Snatchers will deliver doses of krazy Kung-Fu, off-beat screen sirens, wacked out wrestling, propaganda gone wrong and many other far-out celluloid obscurities that will leave eyes bulging and jaws dropping .

A forty-something tram conductor (Fraulein Winslet) with a dark and terrible secret living in the grieving conscious of post-war Germany enters into an unsolicited affair with a ingenuous young school boy (David Kross). Bookmarked in 1995, the film initially explores the seemingly predatory, sexually-charged relationship between working-class Hanna & privileged Michael. As romance ensues, their casual fling turns into a fully-fledged starcross’d romance, that runs on equally strange stipulations. As the senior partner Hanna desires Michael read to her from a variety of classic texts ranging from Homer to Chekhov. Only after a reading occurs will the two have sex (some fantastically candid scenes shot by British New Wave DP Chris Menges). Like clockwork, trouble ensues and the love-nest created ruined by Hanna’s dark past (hmm post-war Germany what could it be? think Isla).