Sundance 2020 Special Part 3: Coming of Age

Beast Beast examines what it's like to come of age in the era of social media. The film explores the lives of three different characters- Krista, played by Shirley Chen, is the popular theater kid; Jose Angeles' Nito is a shy, talented skate kid, and Adam, played by director Danny Madden's brother Will Madden, is a gun nut who's obsessed with getting more followers for his YouTube channel. The teens cross paths with tragic results, but Madden handles each character with sympathy and nuance. He and cinematographer Kristian Zuniga created a different camera look for Krista, Nito and Adam, staying wide and documentary-style for some sequences and tight and controlled for others. The film came to the attention of Alec Baldwin who saw a short version, “Krista” at SXSW, and came on board as an an executive producer in order to fund its development into a feature.

Beast Beast will be at SXSW 2020, and has yet to find distribution.

Danny Madden: @stuffbydanny

Kristian Zuniga: @kristianzuniga

Blast Beat is about two teen metalhead brothers from Colombia who are uprooted from their lives in Bogota and move to suburban America, where they struggle to fit in. Director Esteban Arango and writer Erick Castrillon cast real life brothers Moises and Matéo Arias, who brought an added layer of authenticity to their characters' relationship. It was also important to Arango and Castrillon to make a personal movie about their own culture, and they cast Colombian actors who spoke Spanish with authentic accents in the movie.

Blast Beat has yet to find distribution.

Esteban Arango: @esteban_arango

Erick Castrillon: @orbital_spirit

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