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Riot

Nathan Silver
4' / 2015 / United States of America
English
Spanish subtitled

Audience vote 5.33

During filmmaker Nathan Silver’s 9th birthday party in May of 1992, chaos erupts as he attempts to make a film based on the L.A. Riots with his friends in his backyard. Nathan both directs and acts in the film, as his father captures the action on video. Uncooperative friends as actors, a 9-year old director, and a nagging mother result in another kind of riot.

Main Festivals & Awards

Locarno / New York FF/ Mar del Plata / Vancouver / Stockholm / True/False

Director's Biography

Nathan Silver graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2005. Since then he has written and directed five short films and six feature films, including Soft in the Head (2013), Uncertain Terms (2014), and Stinking Heaven (2015). His films have played in countless festivals around the world, including Locarno, New York, Rotterdam, Viennale, Vancouver, AFI, Torino, Munich, and BAFICI and venues including MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City.