Synopsis
After running away from home, a teenage graffiti artist holds up an unsuspecting MTA worker in a robbery gone right that changes their lives forever.
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Luis Guzmán Gus Deardoff Robert Aguilar Cemi Guzman Jan McAdoo Chris Triana Randal Sandler Martin Cabrera Claude Amadeo Michael D'Alto
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The Space Program Mero Mero Productions Foxxhole Productions Dark Rabbit Productions FirstGen Content
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Alternative Title
街头故事
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USA
South by Southwest Film & TV Festival
Theatrical limited
29 Sep 2023
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12 Oct 2023
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Puerto RicoNR
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Puerto Rico
12 Oct 2023
- Theatrical limitedNR Fine Arts
USA
11 Mar 2023
- Premiere South by Southwest Film & TV Festival
29 Sep 2023
- Theatrical limitedNR
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I was lucky enough to finish out this film as DP for main unit photography for my mentor, Eric Branco, when he had to leave a little early. It means a whole lot to me and it’s done more for me and my career than most people will ever know.
We also won the Grand Jury Prize for Cinematography at SXSW 2023!! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Thank you to Eric Branco for your gorgeous work on this film and for letting me play a small role in your beautiful visuals.
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Costume Design by me!
So thrilled to finally see our film here at the closing night of the Newark Black Film Festival. I’m so proud of our work and I can’t wait for everyone to see it when it’s in theaters this October.
Congratulations to Aristotle and the entire cast & crew on their phenomenal work.
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Not the elderly white woman saying “Was it the theater or why could I not understand your characters?” 💀💀💀
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Just heartwarming enough and boasts two central performances strong enough to avoid collapsing under some fairly tired cliches and general predictability.
Guzman really is so damn good, but the movie doesn’t do a single thing you won’t see coming a mile away. Colors within those lines fine, though. Festival fare
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Found family is one of my favorite stories. I find it intensely redeeming that humans are willing to act out the most intimate parts of our lives with supposed strangers. Luis Guzman has a wealth of earnest avuncular energy that makes him a good fit in an unexpected role. He also gets some solid laughs measured throughout.
The writing is the highlight though. First time director Aristotle Torres weaves a intensely personal story about maturing as an artist and how the Bronx helped shape that process. I love his tone somewhere between intense realism and stylized story, but definitely higher praise is the fact that during a q&a after the show at Concourse Plaza Cinemas several audience members expressed appreciation for the depiction of their home. This one is worth the effort, and I hope to see more from Torres soon.
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absolutely fucking wonderful and it was the experience of a lifetime being able to see it with my cohort and meet the uber talented and kind director afterwards!!!
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This is the first time I’ve seen something like this about life in the south Bronx.
This film was just a beautiful love letter and a deep critique on a lot of the shit that goes on in this borough. It was so inspiring seeing my actual block in this film, seeing the view of the stadium, Mulaly Park, and the APT buildings from the 4. The cinematography, the dialogue, the performances, the costume design, ugh! AND THE DIRECTOR WISHED ME HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! I fucking love this film. This is the kind of art I want to make !!! -
This movie was perfect in every regard. Not only did I find it extremely relatable but the story it was putting across was very heartfelt and sentimental.
The bokeh within many of the shots was phenomenal. Lens choice was crucial to how this film was portrayed.
If you really notice the film started off with very vibrant and saturated colors and as it progressed it started becoming more and more desaturated directly paralleling how the mental state of the character started deteriorating.
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really awesome to see nyc depicted like this. captures so much of the beauty and the “wabi-sabi” of this city, especially in the Bronx, somewhere I feel I really have not seen a lot in cinema. despite this truth in location and character portrayal however, the script was riddled with cliché. the plot never surprised me once, turning to age old “coming of age” archetypes that clashed with the honesty of the rest of the film.