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California | Small Town
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Best Performance in a Feature Film Leading Teen Actress | 2018 | Alyssa Elle
Directing | 2017 | Bruce Thierry
Best Feature Film | 2017 | Bruce Thierry
Best Cinematography in a Feature | 2017 | Chananun
Best Feature Film | 2017 | Bruce Thierry
Best Editing of a Feature Narrative | 2017 | Joe
Filmed mostly in Bombay Beach, CA.
Based on the 2005 novel Please Don't Come Back From The Moon by Dean Bakopoulos. The novel was set near Detroit, but writer and director Bruce Thierry Cheung changed the setting to the Imperial Valley in California, filming mostly in Bombay Beach, an abandoned resort town on the Salton Sea. Bakopoulos collaborated with Cheung on the film as a co-writer.
Jeremiah Noe plays Mickey's uncle, one of the men who abandoned Mickey's town to find a better life, and who Mickey runs into in a bar at the end of the movie. Noe has no previous acting experience. Director Bruce Thierry Cheung met Noe in a bar while scouting filming locations, explained the film's themes of fatherhood and abandonment of children, and spontaneously gave him a cold audition. Cheung called the audition "stunning" and decided to cast him right then and there.
"Mickey Smalley: Is there some happiness here in the desert? Of cause there is. Still that doesn't change everything. It doesn't change this; [pause] Mickey Smalley: the moon follows us wherever we go."
