Robert (Ezra Miller – Californication) is a young, ill-at-ease American student at a private East Coast preparatory school who has a disturbing penchant for random Youtube clips and online pornography. He is also very much a loner and finds friendly interactions with other students his own age difficult. Robert accidentally captures on camera the agonising death of two attractive and popular female classmates. The principle of the school decides that their lives are to become memorialised as part of an audio-visual assignment designed to speed up the campus-wide healing process – a project that is assigned to Robert. But the video memorial assignment creates an atmosphere of paranoia and unease among students and teachers with unforeseen consequences. Apart from the brilliant performance of young actor Ezra Miller, Afterschool also features Rosemary DeWitt (Rachel Getting Married) and Michael Stuhlbarg, who stars in the Coen brothers' latest cinematic offering A Serious Man.

The motivation and the inspiration of Afterschool, according to the director Antonio Campos, was born out of his own history as a student at an elite New York preparatory school, the alumni of which includes Truman Capote; the death of two close friends and the harrowing event of 9/11, when he was himself only 18 years of age. In 2008, Esquire's film critic Michael D'Angelo described Afterschool as one of his Top 10 Films of 2008. Antonio Campos, already caused quite a stir with his short film titled Buy it Now, which won him the much coveted Cinefondation award at Cannes Film Festival. The title of the film is a reference to the "buy it now" option on Ebay. The film is a story of a girl who sells her virginity to the highest online bidder on Ebay.

Afterschool is currently available on UK rental DVD and will be released on retail DVD on 8th March 2010 by Network releasing at the RRP of £19.99. The following extra features are included:

• Deleted scenes;
• Mobile phone videos;
• Teacher Testimonials;
• New York Film Festival trailer;
• Theatrical trailer;
• Image gallery.