Sundance breakout queer coming-of-age film “Mutt” is finally unleashed stateside. Writer-director Vuk Lungulov-Klotz’s debut film stars Lío Mehiel as a young trans man named Feña, and the film won Mehiel a Special Jury Award for Acting at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Strand releases the film in the U.S. this summer, beginning at New York’s Film Forum, and IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer premiere below.
“Mutt” follows Feña across his romances, friendships, and family over the course of one hectic day in New York City, where three people from Feña’s past are thrust back into his life. Having lost touch since transitioning from female to male, he navigates the new dynamics of old relationships while tackling the day-to-day challenges of living life in between. Cole Doman, MiMi Ryder, and Alejandro Goic also star.
“Mutt” details Lungulov-Klotz’s own personal experience growing up in New York City as...
“Mutt” follows Feña across his romances, friendships, and family over the course of one hectic day in New York City, where three people from Feña’s past are thrust back into his life. Having lost touch since transitioning from female to male, he navigates the new dynamics of old relationships while tackling the day-to-day challenges of living life in between. Cole Doman, MiMi Ryder, and Alejandro Goic also star.
“Mutt” details Lungulov-Klotz’s own personal experience growing up in New York City as...
- 7/18/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
“Mutt,” the Sundance prize-winning feature debut of New York-based filmmaker Vuk Lungulov-Klotz, has been boarded by Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever.
“Mutt,” which just won the Special Jury Award for actor Lío Mehiel (“WeCrashed”) at Sundance, will next play at the Berlin Film Festival in the Generation 14+ strand. CAA Media Finance is handling North American rights, while Best Friend Forever represents the rest of the world.
Lungulov-Klotz is a Chilean-Serbian filmmaker who previously participated in the Sundance Institute Labs, the Tribeca Film Institute, and the Ryan Murphy Half Initiative Program. His award winning trans-themed short film “Still Liam” played at several festivals and was championed by queer filmmakers Ira Sachs and Silas Howard, who have both become mentors.
Described as an emotional drama overlapping past, present and future, “Mutt” follows Feña, a young trans guy bustling through life in New York City. Over the course of a single hectic day,...
“Mutt,” which just won the Special Jury Award for actor Lío Mehiel (“WeCrashed”) at Sundance, will next play at the Berlin Film Festival in the Generation 14+ strand. CAA Media Finance is handling North American rights, while Best Friend Forever represents the rest of the world.
Lungulov-Klotz is a Chilean-Serbian filmmaker who previously participated in the Sundance Institute Labs, the Tribeca Film Institute, and the Ryan Murphy Half Initiative Program. His award winning trans-themed short film “Still Liam” played at several festivals and was championed by queer filmmakers Ira Sachs and Silas Howard, who have both become mentors.
Described as an emotional drama overlapping past, present and future, “Mutt” follows Feña, a young trans guy bustling through life in New York City. Over the course of a single hectic day,...
- 2/1/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Setting the stage for the year in cinema, the 2023 Sundance Film Festival will take place January 19-29, both in person in Utah as well as virtual viewings kicking off five days into the festival. Ahead of next month’s festivities, the festival has now unveiled its features lineup, which features 99 films.
Initial highlights of the lineup include Ira Sachs’ Passages, starring Franz Rogowski, Adèle Exarchopoulos, and Ben Whishaw, William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth follow-up Eileen, Raven Jackson’s All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, produced by Barry Jenkins, Bad Behaviour, the directorial debut of Jane Campion’s daughter Alice Englert, Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool, starring Alexander Skarsgård and Mia Goth, Nicole Holofcener’s’ You Hurt My Feelings starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and more.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
The 12 films in this section are all world premieres. All 12 will be available to stream online.
The Accidental Getaway Driver (Director and Screenwriter: Sing J. Lee,...
Initial highlights of the lineup include Ira Sachs’ Passages, starring Franz Rogowski, Adèle Exarchopoulos, and Ben Whishaw, William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth follow-up Eileen, Raven Jackson’s All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, produced by Barry Jenkins, Bad Behaviour, the directorial debut of Jane Campion’s daughter Alice Englert, Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool, starring Alexander Skarsgård and Mia Goth, Nicole Holofcener’s’ You Hurt My Feelings starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and more.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
The 12 films in this section are all world premieres. All 12 will be available to stream online.
The Accidental Getaway Driver (Director and Screenwriter: Sing J. Lee,...
- 12/7/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Slate includes 7th & Union, upcoming Cam Gigandet thriller Righteous Thieves.
Grandave International has picked up world sales rights for EFM on upcoming action thriller The Channel and Fantasia selection Fugitive Dreams.
The Channel is in post-production and follows a desperate criminal, his wild brother and their motley crew of former Marines who, after their bank heist goes wrong, must escape New Orleans and the FBI.
William Kaufman directs and Andrew and Isaac Lewis, Jon Wroblewski and Paul Reichelt are producing. Max Martini and Clayne Crawford lead the cast.
April Matthis and Robbie Tann star in Jason Neulander’s Fantasia 2020 entry Fugitive Dreams,...
Grandave International has picked up world sales rights for EFM on upcoming action thriller The Channel and Fantasia selection Fugitive Dreams.
The Channel is in post-production and follows a desperate criminal, his wild brother and their motley crew of former Marines who, after their bank heist goes wrong, must escape New Orleans and the FBI.
William Kaufman directs and Andrew and Isaac Lewis, Jon Wroblewski and Paul Reichelt are producing. Max Martini and Clayne Crawford lead the cast.
April Matthis and Robbie Tann star in Jason Neulander’s Fantasia 2020 entry Fugitive Dreams,...
- 2/10/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Slate includes 7th & Union, upcoming Cam Gigandet thriller Righteous Thieves.
Grandave International has picked up world sales rights for EFM on upcoming action thriller The Channel and Jason Neulander’ Fantasia selection Fugitive Dreams.
The Channel is in post-production and follows a desperate criminal, his wild brother and their motley crew of former Marines who, after their bank heist goes wrong, must escape New Orleans and the FBI.
William Kaufman directs and Andrew and Isaac Lewis, Jon Wroblewski and Paul Reichelt are producing and Max Martini and Clayne Crawford lead the cast.
April Matthis and Robbie Tann star in Jason Neulander’s Fantasia 2020 entry Fugitive Dreams,...
Grandave International has picked up world sales rights for EFM on upcoming action thriller The Channel and Jason Neulander’ Fantasia selection Fugitive Dreams.
The Channel is in post-production and follows a desperate criminal, his wild brother and their motley crew of former Marines who, after their bank heist goes wrong, must escape New Orleans and the FBI.
William Kaufman directs and Andrew and Isaac Lewis, Jon Wroblewski and Paul Reichelt are producing and Max Martini and Clayne Crawford lead the cast.
April Matthis and Robbie Tann star in Jason Neulander’s Fantasia 2020 entry Fugitive Dreams,...
- 2/10/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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