Beacon movie storyline. Driven by an overzealous sense of adventure, young sailor Emily (Julia Goldani Telles), quickly runs into trouble when she shipwrecks on a remote island off the coast of South America. She’s rescued by the island’s lone inhabitant, Demián Bichir’s mysterious light keeper Ismael. With communications down due to incredibly stormy conditions, they try to work together to ensure each other’s survival, but tension grows once Emily begins to question Ismael’s lack of answers and the bizarre occurrences they encounter as time passes.
Directed with gripping fashion by Roxy Shih, the stage is set for a nail-biting journey into the depths of human instinct necessary for survival. Telles and Bichir bring incredible levels of pathos into their characters while also channeling the primal fear of strangers, unknown settings and questions of trust as the audience dances on the very knife’s edge that Emily does in wrangling with her fraying psyche.
Driven by an overzealous sense of adventure, young sailor Emily (Julia Goldani Telles), quickly runs into trouble when she shipwrecks on a remote island off the coast of South America. She’s rescued by the island’s lone inhabitant, Demián Bichir’s mysterious light keeper Ismael. With communications down due to incredibly stormy conditions, they try to work together to ensure each other’s survival, but tension grows once Emily begins to question Ismael’s lack of answers and the bizarre occurrences they encounter as time passes.
Directed with gripping fashion by Roxy Shih, the stage is set for a nail-biting journey into the depths of human instinct necessary for survival. Telles and Bichir bring incredible levels of pathos into their characters while also channeling the primal fear of strangers, unknown settings and questions of trust as the audience dances on the very knife’s edge that Emily does in wrangling with her fraying psyche.
Beacon (2024)
Directed by: Roxy Shih
Starring: Demián Bichir, Julia Goldani Telles
Screenplay by: Julio Rojas
Production Design by: Justin Reu
Cinematography by: Daphne Quin Wu
Film Editing by: Don Money
Costume Design by: Morgan Todd
Makeup Department: Skye Tostowaryk
Music by: Nuno Malo
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Strand Releasing
Release Date: June 8, 2024 (Tribeca Film Festival)
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