Director: Aric Avelino
USA, 2005 - 95 Minutes
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Director Aric Avelino says of his debut feature, “It’s really just about understanding the people that live next to you and understanding the people that live three states away from you. I think a lot of people go to see films that are directly about them. And in our film, we ask people to look at characters that might be similar to them and we bring them together... it’s our hope that a white woman in Oregon can associate with this black kid in inner-city Chicago, and a black kid in the inner-city Chicago can associate with the white gun shop owner, and it all happens as a result of the stories they are weaving. So, it’s that texture I think that makes up this country, and it’s that failure to understand that has plagued us.”
Aric Avelino directed, photographed, and edited his first short film, Just a Game of Dominoes, at the age of 17 – the same year that he completed his first full-length script, Thieves Among Us. Since then, he has photographed and directed three short films: Central High, April ‘18, and American 1938. American Gun is his first feature.
Producers: Laurent Lavolé, Isabelle Pragier Screenwriters: Steven Bagatourian, Aric Avelino Cinematographer: Nancy Schreiber Editor: Richard Nord Music: Schuyler Fisk, Peter Golub Cast: Marcia Gay Harden, Forest Whitaker, Donald Sutherland, Linda Cardellini, Tony Goldwyn
A powerful series of interwoven distinctly American storylines that bring to light how the proliferation of guns in America dramatically affects and shapes the every day lives of its citizens. The film opens at the start of another day in a Virginia gun store, where owner Carl (Donald Sutherland), continues to sidestep controversy while running the shop he loves.
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