Country: USA
Year: 2024
Duration: 103'
Valentine’s Day, New Jersey. It’s a busy day of sex work for Ponyboi when he learns that his estranged father is dying. The troubling news brings back old memories of growing up intersex in a traditional Salvadoran household. Things take a turn for the worse when a drug deal goes wrong, forcing Ponyboi to make a clean break and leave New Jersey to save his neck from the mob.
Biography
film director
Esteban Arango
(Bogotá, Colombia) is an award winning writer and director working in film, television, music videos, and advertising. Blast Beat, Arango’s feature film directorial debut, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020 and was released by Sony Pictures and Vertical Entertainment in select theaters in the United States and digital platforms everywhere. Ponyboi is Arango’s sophomore feature film. His lyrical filmmaking approach can also be seen outside of his narrative films. He has directed promos and commercials for clients including Discovery, NBC, Telemundo and FIFA.
FILMOGRAFIA
Jamas Dijo Nunca Nada (cm, 2011), Hours of Wealth (cm, 2014), Site HM-95 (cm, 2014), Blast Beat (cm, 2015), This Little Light (cm, 2017), ¿Téo? Feat. Jaden Smith: Uno Dos (videoclip, 2017), Blast Beat (2020), Ponyboi (2024).
Declaration
film director
“Ponyboi will not only empower the intersex community, but all marginalized people. My goal is to make a film for BIPOC, the LGBTQIA+ community, and anyone who has ever felt they didn’t belong. At its core, Ponyboi is about taking back control of one’s power, finding redemption, and the journey of healing oneself. In the film, Ponyboi must reckon with his past to break free from the self-imposed chains bonded to a destructive life. By the end of the film, I want audiences to feel transcended beyond their suffering, where self-actualization is possible.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Esteban Arango. SCREENPLAY: River Gallo. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ed Wu. EDITING: Hanna Park. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Tommy Love. COSTUME DESIGN: Lucy Hawkins. MUSIC: Cristobal Tapia de Veer. SOUND: Matt Kulewicz. CAST: River Gallo, Dylan O’Brien, Victoria Pedretti, Indya Moore, Murray Bartlett. PRODUCTION: River Gallo, Mark Ankner, Trevor Wall, Adel Future Nur per Tideline Entertainment for Tideline Entertainment.
CONTACT: Mountain Toppics parker@mountaintoppics.com
