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Touching home The Tree (El árbol)
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In 2006, after attending a tribute to four-time Academy Award nominee
MEXICO / SPAIN
Santiago’s wife has thrown him out and a judge has barred him from
Directors: Logan Miller, Noah Miller Ed Harris, Logan and Noah Miller talked their way backstage, where Director: Carlos Serrano Azcona seeing his children. By day, his life is chaotic – lost and alone, he wanders
Producers: Logan Miller, Noah Miller, they entreated the star to accept a key role in a movie they had prom- Producers: Jaime Romandia, Madrid’s artistic Malasaña neighborhood, joins in a soccer game, sleeps
Jeromy Zajonc
ised their father they would make. On the strength of the trailer they
Carlos Reygadas, Jaime Rosales,
on a park bench – but at least he has his job as a bartender. Until, that
Screenwriters: Logan Miller, showed him on their laptop, Harris generously agreed to look at the
Carlos Serrano Azcona
is, he’s fired under suspicion of having stolen money. Friends say they
Noah Miller
script – and ultimately gave them two weeks of his time at union scale.
Screenwriter: Carlos Serrano Azcona
want to help this modern-day Job, but as any semblance of normal life
MS: A to Z
Cinematographer: Ricardo Jacques Gale
Armed with a Panavision New Filmmaker Grant, these self-taught twin
Cinematographer: David Valdeperez
drains away, Santiago insists he’s fine and continues his aimless journey,
MS: A to Z
il Editor: Robert Dalva
brothers produced, wrote, directed, and acted in the resulting feature, a Editor: Carlos Reygadas a stranger in his own life.
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Cast: Ed Harris, Logan Miller, fictionalized account of their father’s last years in homelessness – and of Cast: Bosco Sodi, David Bermejo,
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Noah Miller, Brad Dourif
their own struggles to realize their dreams against the backdrop of his
Antonio Martin Beato, Maria Brunete,
First-time writer/director Carlos Serrano Azcona lets his protagonist
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2009 / color / 108 min. self-destruction.
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(played by Bosco Sodi, a nonpro who is actually best known in Mexico
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2009 / color / 70 min.
as a painter) pass almost unnoticed as he drifts at a hypnotic pace
As children, the Miller brothers took refuge from their father’s often through his days, from a heroic intervention on behalf of a woman
LoGan anD noah MiLLEr violent outbursts in two things: baseball and movies. These come being harassed by strangers to an encounter with a neighbor who
Identical twins Logan and Noah Miller
together in Touching Home. Their characters, Lane and Clint, are Major
CarLoS SErrano azCona
compassionately but firmly shoos him away from his family’s home.
grew up in northern California with
League prospects who return to their home in northern California when
Carlos Serrano Azcona studied
Finally, Santiago finds a moment of peace when he meets his pot dealer
aspirations of becoming professional philosophy at the Complutense
baseball players. When their hopes
their hopes are dashed. There, they try to regroup, working alongside
University of Madrid and direction at
on a hill overlooking the skyline, a moment that leads him to search for
did not become a reality, the two
their father and his ne’er-do-well pals at a rock quarry and enduring
the London Film School. The Tree is
a deeper salvation – which he might just find on a high bridge in the
turned their attention to filmmaking. the challenges of their own questionable friends, who want to cut them Azcona’s feature debut, but he has middle of Madrid.
In 2006, the brothers were awarded
down to size. Navigating the ins and outs of this small-town, working-
directed several short films and worked
the Panavision New Filmmaker
class existence, still unwilling to scrap their plans for a life in baseball,
as well as an assistant director, editor,
Grant, clearing the way for their first and sound recording engineer.
Sponsored by:
production.
they wrestle with their own demons and those of their father, wonder-
ing if their love for him amounts to self-sabotage.
The Millers conjured further sterling support for what has been hailed
as an inspirational story of resilience and passion in the form of editing
by Robert Dalva (The Black Stallion; Jumanji; Hidalgo), coaching by
Academy Award–winning film editor and sound designer Walter Murch,
sound editing by three-time Oscar winner Richard Hymns, and a screen-
ing at Skywalker Ranch.
Sponsored by:
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