RODEO

Hot tempered and fiercely independent, Julia finds escape in a passion for motorcycles and the high-octane world of urban Rodeos – Illicit gatherings where riders show off their bikes and their latest daring stunts. After a chance meeting at a Rodeo Julia finds herself drawn into a clandestine and volatile clique and, striving to prove herself to the ultra-masculine group, she is faced with a series of escalating demands that will make or break her place in the community.

“Rodeo, my first feature film, written over a period of nearly 5 years, was built on an assertive relationship with fiction. When I went with the ‘Dirty Rider Crew’ on the lines, I was often the only girl. The few others were either on the back of the bikes or on the side of the road, but hardly any of them rode. That’s also why I invented the character of Julia: it responded to a rather intimate desire to see this dream of joining a community come true. Rodeo was born out of the meeting with the community I had been following for years and my intimate desire to see a young woman rider one day lift her bike. Rodeo is for me an epic and «sur-naturalist» film.”

DIRECTOR: Lola Quivoron. SCREENPLAY: Lola Quivoron, Antonia Buresi. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Raphaël Vandenbussche. FILM EDITING: Torres Calderon. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Gabrielle Desjean. COSTUME DESIGN: Rachèle Raoult. MUSIC: Kelman Duran. SOUND: Lucas Domejean, Geoffrey Perrier, Victor Praud. CAST: Julie Ledru, Yanis Lafki, Antonia Buresi, Cody Schroeder, Louis Sotton, Junior Correia, Ahmed Hamdi, Dave Nsaman, Mustapha Dianka, Mohamed Bettahar, Chris Makodi, Gianni Caira, Quentin Arizzi, Brice Straehli, Sébastien Schroeder. PRODUCER: Charles Gillibert. PRODUCTION: CG Cinéma.