Yelling to the Sky: Film Review

3:52 PM PDT 3/15/2011 by John DeFore

An elliptical portrait of at-risk youth where little if anything is unambiguous, debuting writer-director Victoria Mahoney’s Yelling to the Sky contains an artful indirectness that may frustrate viewers

AUSTIN — An elliptical portrait of at-risk youth where little if anything is unambiguous, Victoria Mahoney’s Yelling to the Sky drips with a strange but sometimes moving nostalgia for environs its characters clearly want to escape. Its artful indirectness leaves enough gaps to present commercial difficulties, but the right kind of attention on the fest circuit could support an art-house run.