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In development on another Ethiopia-set film, which Beshir intends to be"genre-free." — KATHERINE MCDONALDliterally starts out with a bang, where, in a seemingly tranquil meadow bathed in magic-hour light, a kid in his late teens in NRA country fires off several rounds from an assault rifle. Butis not about that boy, it's about the underage teenage girls he and his buddies are trying to impress.
Honesty and candor prevail, given that it was a crew of two, with one shooting while the other recorded sound, trading duties as need be, using mostly natural light and a minimal filmmaker presence."We wanted it to feel like it was all from their world," they said,"so we leaned in to what was already available.