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This film was shot exclusively on iPhone 5s smartphones, along with the Moondog Labs' anamorphic clip on lens and a $8 app, FiLMiC Pro in addition to Steadicam Smoothee Mounts. See more »
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Rating: 9/10
I saw this Premiere at Sundance 2015. This is what a Sundance film
should be. You start watching at a distance. The subject matter of
prostitutes, pimps, drugs, sex, homosexuality and gender roles is
foreign to most and even repulsive to some. But that's the beauty. It
draws you in...you start to care about the characters, you start to
laugh with them. You then admire their pluck. You feel their
frustration, sadness and even shame. Then you identify with it. Then,
eventually, you admire it. Finally, what you see are human beings with
the same, or even better, values that you have. The music is cutting
edge street sound that propels you along the LA sidewalks and, combined
with the colors of the film (i.e. tangerine), it pulls you into the
brash and jolting life on some of the worse streets of LA. The power of
the film is that, in powerful ways, that street community seems a
better home than you have in safe suburbia. This is what indie film
should be.....it takes a different subject matter, perhaps something
disturbing, draws you in and changes the way you view the world.
Forever. Not just during the course of a film festival.
Even better, this film was shot entirely on three iPhone 5s. At the
Premiere, the audience audibly gasped when this fact rolled on screen
during the credits. Another thing an indie film should do...change the
way you look at how films can be made. (I'm actually going to try to
make a film this summer...seriously).
This film should have won the Sundance NEXT award....and probably would
have if it was not by audience vote. This is not mainstream..it is an
independent film. This film will change your life.
P.S. Both female leads were powerful and legitimate, in every sense of
that word. But Kiki Kitana Rodriguez has screen presence and karma
enough to fill Dodger Stadium one hundred times over. I could watch her
for yours, and hope we all have a chance to do so again.
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