As far as getting your name out there with your first feature film, things couldn't have gone better for director Gabriel Ripstein who snapped up the Best First Film trophy at the Berlin International Film Festival for "600 Miles." And while the movie hasn't yet landed a U.S. distributor, the international rollout is underway and the first trailer has arrived. Tim Roth, Harrison Thomas, Monica Del Carmen, Kristyan Ferrer, Craig Hensley, and Julian Sedgwick star in the movie that follows an Atf agent who tracks a young gun trafficker, only to find the tables turned when he's unexpectedly smuggled into Mexico by the very man he's been keeping an eye on. The situation is grim and the agent will have to do everything he can to bargain for his life, while the young trafficker learns a lesson about the hard realities of the line of business he's in. Hopefully this...
- 7/21/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
With the border between the United States and Mexico becoming an increasingly political chess piece in the battle over immigration and the fight waged in the war on drugs, it's not a surprise that more filmmakers are finding storytelling inspiration against that backdrop. Its within that milieu that Gabriel Ripstein makes his directorial debut with "600 Miles," premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival. Starring Tim Roth, Harrison Thomas , Monica Del Carmen, Kristyan Ferrer, Craig Hensley, and Julian Sedgwick, the story follows an Atf agent who tracks a young gun trafficker, only to find the tables turned when he's smuggled into Mexico. Here's the full synopsis: Arnulfo Rubio, a young Mexican, works with a gringo barely older than himself to smuggle weapons from Arizona to Mexico for a drug cartel. We follow him buying weapons, crossing borders and during his almost familial encounters with middle-men and clients. What Arnulfo does not know is that for.
- 2/5/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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