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Tropical Vulture

0% | May 05, 2025
Crime Thriller Comedy

Tropical Vulture is a cross-generational project which highlights the artistic influences between George Kuchar, a Bay Area legend of independent filmmaking, and Mexican artist Miguel Calderón. Tropical Vulture is an experimental narrative video, co-directed by both artists, and blends Hollywood glamour and drama with an all-too-real life approach, which creates and inspires a counterpoint of unattainable desire against unbearable actuality. The video, shot on location in Acapulco, utilizes a “lo-fi” aesthetic and playful use of nonprofessional actors. Tropical Vulture is entrenched in corruption, tourism, and post-colonialism and it uses a loose narrative to create a portrait of a relationship between student and teacher.

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Miguel Calderon
Director
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Daniel Wade Gorrell
Director of Photography
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Eamon Ore Giron
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Allegra Cordero Montezolo
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Santiago Martinez Vertíz
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Vicky Franco
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Moises Medina
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Erik Wilson
Video Assist Operator
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George Kuchar
Director

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