XLrator Media (
Jimi: All Is By My Side,
The Machine) announced the U.S. release of the action-thriller
CAMINO starring
Zoë Bell (
The Hateful Eight,
Death Proof) and Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker
Nacho Vigalondo (
Timecrimes,
Open Windows) in a rare acting role. Fully financed and produced by
Bleiberg Entertainment, the film will be released in early 2016 on
XLrator’s “
TURBO” action label.
CAMINO was directed by
Josh C. Waller, who previously collaborated with
Bell on
Raze, written by
Daniel Noah (
Max Rose,
McCanick), and produced by
Waller,
Noah, and
Ehud Bleiberg (
The Iceman).
Nicholas Donnermeyer and
Barry Gordon executive produce along with
Bell and
Vigalondo.
Bleiberg Entertainment and
Red Granite International subsidiary
Blue Box International are handling international sales at the Toronto International Film Festival.
ABOUT CAMINO
Set in 1985, war photographer Avery Taggert (
Zoë Bell) has built a solid career with her stark and honest imagery, all the while remaining emotionally distant from her subjects. When she embeds in the jungles of Colombia with a squad of missionaries led by a beloved and charismatic Spaniard known as "El Guero" (
Nacho Vigalondo), she finds herself in the middle of a conflict as violent as any she's photographed. One night, she happens upon El Guero committing a heinous atrocity, capturing the vile act on film, an image with the potential to discredit and destroy El Guero. Knowing this brilliant psychopath will employ every tactic at his disposal to destroy that photograph - and the photographer who took it - Avery flees into the harsh jungle with nothing but the camera hanging around her neck to escape from missionaries twisted into violent guerrillas by the madman intent on destroying all enemies.
“It was important after
Raze and
McCanick and especially after the past few years of our work within SpectreVision for me to make a film that ‘came from the gut.’ Something that felt true to myself and to the artists we surround ourselves with. I think we did it. We’ve made our own little ‘Electro-Jungle-Western.’ Plus, to be able to piece together a film almost entirely with our friends, that’s what it’s all about. Thanks goodness the folks at
XLrator Media share that vision as well,” said director
Josh C. Waller.
“It was great working with
Josh and
Daniel again. The film is filled with tension and there are so many great sequences. I can’t wait for people to see it,” said producer
Ehud Bleiberg.
“
Zoë Bell is a multitalented actress, martial artist and stuntwoman, having shown her incredible physical skills in
Kill Bill,
Death Proof,
Inglourious Basterds,
Raze,
Django Unchained and her upcoming roles in Tarantino’s
The Hateful Eight and our own film
Paradox. Action fans will embrace her starring role in
CAMINO where she gets to show her full range of talents,” said
XLrator Media CEO
Barry Gordon.
Best known as a writer-director,
Nacho Vigalondo wrote & directed
Timecrimes,
Open Windows (produced by SpectreVision), segments for
V/H/S: Viral and
The ABCs of Death, and will next helm
Colossal starring
Anne Hathaway.
