Desierto

Desierto

Teaser poster
Directed by Jonás Cuarón
Produced by
Written by
  • Jonás Cuarón
  • Mateo Garcia
Starring
Music by Woodkid
Cinematography Damian Garcia
Production
company
Distributed by STX Entertainment
Release dates
  • 13 September 2015 (2015-09-13) (TIFF)
Running time
 94 minutes[1][2]
Country Mexico
Language
  • English
  • Spanish
Budget $3 million[3]
Box office $1.6 million[4]

Desierto is a 2015 Mexican thriller film co-written and directed by Jonás Cuarón. It was produced by Cuarón together with his father Alfonso and his uncle Carlos. It was shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival,[5] where it won the Prize of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) for Special Presentations.[6]

Plot

What begins as a hopeful journey by Mexican migrant workers looking to seek a better life by crossing the US border quickly becomes a fight for survival, when the unarmed men and women are chased across the desert terrain by a merciless rifle-toting vigilante.[7]

Cast

Release

In December 2015, STX Entertainment announced that it would release the film on 4 March 2016.[8] The release date was subsequently pushed back to a later date in 2016.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Desierto (2016)". Box Office Mojo. (Amazon.com). Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "AMC Theatres: Desierto". AMC Theatres. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  3. ↑ "Jonas Cuaron’s ‘Desierto’ Dazzles Morelia". Variety.com. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "Desierto (2016)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 25, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Toronto to open with 'Demolition'; world premieres for 'Trumbo', 'The Program'". ScreenDaily. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  6. ↑ "Toronto International Film Festival Announces 2015 Award Winners" (PDF) (Press release). TIFF. 20 September 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  7. ↑ Justin Chang, "Toronto Film Review: ‘Desierto’," Variety, September 17, 2015.
  8. ↑ Patrick Hipes, "‘Desierto’ Trailer: Jonás Cuarón’s Thriller Take On The Migrant Experience," Deadline.com, 23 December 2015.
  9. ↑ "Desierto". BoxOfficeMojo.com. Retrieved 17 February 2016.

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