River galloS Neo-noir thriller “ponyboi” Have had a long walk to the screen. The feature is based on actor/writer Gallos card 2019 filmWho won the New York Short Jury Grand Prize at Newfest31. Gallo recalls the title role for the functional adjustment, which Gallo also writes and produces; Esteban Arango leads.
After premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival as a sales title, “Hästbo“Finally opens to the audience in theaters. The film centers at Latinx Intersex Sex Worker Ponyboi (Gallo), who works on a New Jersey washing where he is employed both as a clerk and drug dealer.
Dylan O’Brien plays Ponybois Hallik, with Victoria Pedretti as Ponyboi’s best friend. Murray Bartlett is cast as a possible client. Indya moore stars too.
“The road to making” Ponyboi “has been as long as New Jersey Turnpike – the background of the film and a meaningful place in my childhood landscape,” Gallo said in a press release. “Although I was raised as a” normal “boy, when I was 12 years old, my parents revealed that I had anorchia, a condition where my testicles were absent at birth. Without my consent, I was forced to undergo cosmetic plastic surgery and testosterone to present this as a cisen. of myself as a cisgender -man. typical definitions of female or male crimes.
Gallo continued, “This decisive discovery led me to finally rectified my intersex, non-binary and transidentity. It ignited a passion to tell my story. There is no representation of intersex people in the current movie or TV landscape. It is about time! I want” Ponyboi “to be the movie I needed when I was so young and so losed. Coming into the popular culture, it will take an intersex movie like ‘Ponyboi’ to touch the hearts of the audience and break through the cultural Zeitgeist for real change to happen.
“Ponyboi” won recently Newfest 2024 Grand Jury AwardWith the American narrative functional category jurors saying in a statement, “This is a movie that we knew, bridged the space for humanistic stories at its highest level. This year we assign” ponyboi “for its beautiful writings, performances and cinematic stories. This movie is a beautiful mix of personal stories that raises the river gallo’s personal travel World, mixing skill, joy and heart while we exciting ourselves about the film’s future.
The Indieview review Also applauded the “oapologetic criminal case for having flourish of comedy and romance often comes over as exciting undefined.”
“Director Arango skillfully interprets Gallo’s script that bridges the idea meal in a manner that works to draw a touching portrait of an individual with an abysmal under -represented gender identity while preserving a dark comic tone and doing it visually idiosyncrat,” reads the review. “It is Gallo’s charming hard performance that anchors all loose pieces. They communicate Ponyboi’s rage and desolate fantastic fabelness with intentional and first -hand connection by an artist who has waited all his life to tell this story exactly as fearless as this movie does.”
“Ponyboi” premieres in theaters on June 27 from Fox Entertainment Studios Time Line Banner. Check out the trailer below.
