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Black Flies

MEETINGS AND EVENTS

Cinematographer: David Ungaro

Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire

Producer: Eric Gold, Warren T. Goz, Christopher Kopp, John Ira Palmer, Tye Sheridan, Lucan Toh, Tina Wang, John Wildermuth

Writer: Ryan King, Ben Mac Brown

Production designer: Robert Pyzocha

Editor: Saar Klein, Katie Mcquerrey

Cast: Sean Penn, Michael Pitt, Tye Sheridan, Katherine Waterston

Production Company: AZA Films, Force Majeure Productions, Projected Picture Works, Sculptor Media, Two & Two Pictures

Distribution company (world): FilmNation Entertainment

Distribution company: FilmNation Entertainment

Year: 2023

Country: USA

Time: 120

An upstart paramedic Ollie Cross courses through adrenaline-fueled nights in an ambulance for the New York City Fire Department in Brownsville, Brooklyn while spending days studying for med-school exams in a Chinatown hovel. Working alongside seasoned first responder Gene Rutkovsky, Cross discovers firsthand the chaos and awe of a job that careens from harrowing to heartfelt, and occasionally stretches into ethical ambiguity. Furthering his examination of violence inside institutions and among close-knit groups, French filmmaker Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire turns his unflinching and inquisitive eye on his adopted hometown of New York City in all its ragged glory. Sauvaire concocts a visceral and immersive thriller out of the complex and grueling lives of emergency medical technicians and the everyday people they live to save.

MEETINGS AND EVENTS