The Los Angeles Film Festival opens Thursday night with Woody Allen's To Rome with Love and the event even scored the presence of the director himself — at least, according to reports. But after the spectacle of opening night carries into the main core of the festival's selection, new and established filmmakers from around the world will be screening their latest in the festival's various sections. Movieline asked filmmakers in the LA Film Festival's Narrative and Documentary competitions to share some thoughts on their work. Also take a look at their trailers and be in the know?
Dead Man's Burden, directed by Jared Mosh� [Narrative Competition]
Synopsis:
Opening with a startling act of violence, this tense, classically crafted indie Western takes place in the aftermath of the Civil War on a hardscrabble homestead in New Mexico where the McCurry clan has been struggling to survive. Martha McCurry sees salvation in selling the family farm, against the wishes of her father. With the patriarch?s death, she seizes her opportunity, but her plans are upset by the unexpected return of her brother Wade, a defector to the Union Army long thought dead. Jared Mosh�?s impressive first feature depicts a family in the lethal grip of its own civil war. [Courtesy of Los Angeles Film Festival]
Comments by Jared Mosh�:
Why Dead Man's Burden is worth checking out at LA Film Festival:
I hope audience will check out my film at LAFF because they?re interesting in a story that explores a�country divided by the Civil War through the lens of a family it ripped apart. After the Civil War, America embraced the Western as a myth to reunite the North and the South. We looked West for a fresh start.� And…
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