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Red Rocket

Red Rocket

Original Name: Red Rocket
English Name: Red Rocket
Year: 2021
Run Time: 128 Min
Language: English
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Colour
Country: USA
Director: Sean Baker
Producer: Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, Alex Saks, Shih-Ching Tsou
Cast: Simon Rex, Suzanna Son, Bree Elrod
Screenplay: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch
Cinematographer: Drew Daniels
Editor: Sean Baker
Sound Designer: Alex Altman
Costume Designer: Shih-Ching Tsou
Production Designer: Stephonik
Production Company: Cre Film (Mail)
World Sales: Film Nation Entertainment

Festivals:

  • Cannes FF 2022

Director’s Selected Filmography:

  • 2017 The Florida Project
  • 2015 Tangerine
  • 2012/I Starlet
  • 2008 Prince of Broadway
  • 2004 Take Out

Director’s Biography:

Sean Baker

Sean Baker is a writer, director, producer and editor who has made seven independent feature films over the course of the past two decades. His most recent film was the award-winning The Florida Project (2017) which premiered at the Cannes FF. His previous film Tangerine (2015) premiered at the Sundance FF and won an Independent Spirit and two Gotham Awards. Starlet (2012) was the winner of the Robert Altman Independent Spirit Award and his previous two features, Take Out (2004) and Prince of Broadway (2008), were both nominated for the John Cassavetes Independent Spirit Award.

Synopsis:

The audacious new film from writer-director Sean Baker starring Simon Rex in a magnetic, live-wire performance, Red Rocket is a darkly funny, raw and humane portrait of a uniquely American hustler and a hometown that barely tolerates him.