Cómprame un revólver / Buy Me a Gun
A film by Julio Hernández Cordón
This film was screened as a part of the 2019 Cine Las Americas International Film Festival (CLAIFF22)
This feature was preceded by the short film Wakcha
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA_xFSq_yOQ]
Mexico/Colombia, Dystopian Drama, 2018
84 min, Color
Spanish with English subtitles
México, sometime in a near future…. Women are disappearing and a girl called Huck wears a mask to hide her gender. She helps her dad, a tormented addict, to take care of an abandoned baseball camp where the narcos gather to play. The father tries to protect her as he can. With the help of her friends, a group of lost boys who have the power of camouflaging themselves in the windy desert, Huck has to fight to overcome her reality and to defeat the local capo.
Texas Premiere
Biofilmography
Julio Hernández Cordón (Raleigh, North Carolina, 1975) is a Meso-American filmmaker. He studied at Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in México and has directed films, many of which have screened at CLAIFF including GASOLINA (2008), MARIMBAS DEL INFIERNO (2010), POLVO (2012), and TE PROMETO ANARQUÍA (2015). CÓMPRAME UN REVÓLVER is his 7th feature film.
Credits
Producer: Maria Jose Cordova, Julio Hernández Cordón
Production Companies: Woo Films, Burning Blue
Screenwriter: Julio Hernández Cordón
Cinematographer: Nicolás Wong
Editor: Lenz Claure
Sound Design: Philip Nicolai Flindt, Carlos García, Manuel Jose Gordillo, Manuel Jose Gordillo, La Tina Sonido, Alejandro Uribe Holguin, Felipe Felo Valencia
Music: Alberto Torres
Cast: Ángel Rafael Yanez, Wallece Pereyda, Ángel Leonel Corral, Fabiana Hernández, Matilde Hernández
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