Much to stunt professional and prolific showrunner Ben Bray’s credit, the premiere of his feature debut at last year’s exiting installment of the Los Angeles Film Festival for El Chicano would be one for the history books.
Stunt professional and filmmaker Ben Bray’s feature debut, El Chicano, is moving back from its initial planned November release now with a date set instead for March 22, 2019. The new release date comes on the heels of Thursday’s Deadline exclusive reporting the film’s North American distribution rights acquisition by Open Road’s distribution upstart, Briarcliff Entertainment (Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9).
Next month’s LA Film Festival is just the place for local cinephiles to be to Ben Bray’s directorial debut, El Chicano. Set forth on the streets of East Los Angeles, actor Raul Castillo takes center stage of the narrative with the promise of a haunting crime saga driven by vigilante fervor from a script by Bray and longtime cohort Joe Carnahan whose WarParty banner produced the new film.
I normally try to spot some of these in full on YouTube but it’s a bit early in the game for this particular find. You can especially thank writing duo, producer Joe Carnahan and stunt multi-hyphenate Ben Bray for lending perhaps the closest we’ll see to footage in an unveiled proof-of-concept for Bray’s forthcoming directorial debut, El Chicano.
Things are brewing slowly for stuntman and coordinator Ben Bray whose feature directing debut, El Chicano, is currently on par for an in-competition premiere in the La Muse section of the L.A. Film Festival next month. The social media campaign has already begun and thus, a new still of what looks to be the enigmatic title character can be seen in a new post which you can view below.
The new pic tells the story of two fraternal twin brothers, Pedro and Diego Hernandez, both raised in the toughest barrio of East L.A. Pedro is 10 years old, and a Vato Loco in the making, while his brother Diego follows his brother’s stylistic lead and influence but is, at the same time, his diametric opposite in both bearing and character: Pedro is the dark to Diego’s light, but as young chavalitos on the mean streets of Boyle Heights, they’ve survived by watching one another’s backs.
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