The Big Bend (2024)
Director: Brett W. Wagner Run Time: 103 min. Release Year: 2021
Starring: David Sullivan, Erica Ash, Jason Butler Harner, Virginia Kull
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
World Premiere, 2021 Austin Film Festival
Two families—the Prices and the Talbotts—meet for a reunion in the unknowable reaches of the West Texas desert where they explore the visually-striking landscape and reflect on their good lives. When a child goes missing on a hike, a father confronts his mortality and a wife decides to reexamine her marriage.
“a shimmering version of West Texas that still has a truthful grit to it.”
—Richard Whittaker, Austin Chronicle
The Big Bend follows the survival of these two families in a hauntingly dangerous environment, creating an unforgettable portrait of friendship, parenthood, and marriage.
About the filmmaker:
Brett Wagner is a writer and director from Cleveland, Ohio. Wagner has worked in advertising for most of his professional career, working with brands like McDonalds, Lexus, Ford, and Timer Warner, and he is currently the Associate Chair of Film & Television at The Savannah College of Art and Design, in beautiful Savannah, GA; however, he has also been directing short films since 2002. His 2008 short Chief premiered at Sundance Film Festival and was declared “a must-see” by Indiewire. Wagner drew inspiration on his own harrowing experience of watching his friend lose track of their child while on a family vacation in a national park when writing his debut feature film The Big Bend (2024).
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