Concrete cowboy
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Concrete cowboy |
| Country of production | USA , UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ricky Dust |
| script | Ricky Staub, Dan Walser |
| production |
Idris Elba , Jennifer Madeloff , Tucker Tooley , Dan Walser , Jeff G. Waxman |
| camera | Minka Farthing Cabbage |
| cut | Luke Ciarrocchi |
| occupation | |
| |
Concrete Cowboy is a film drama directed by Ricky Staub that is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2020 . The film is based on the novel Ghetto Cowboy by Greg Neris .
action
Fifteen-year-old Cole was kicked out of his Detroit school and dropped off by his mother at his father Harp's in Philadelphia, 600 miles away. Cole doesn't know his father. He prefers to spend his time in the stables with the horses on Fletcher Street, as the city keeps a cowboy subculture alive that has existed for more than 100 years. Despite the poverty, violence and increasing gentrification, this culture on horseback gives the people in this community support and stability, but the city wants to close the club.
Cole reconnects with Smush, his childhood best friend, but who is involved in drug deals.
Literary template
The film is based on the novel Ghetto Cowboy by Greg Neris . Neri got the idea for the story after reading an article in LIFE Magazine in April 2005 entitled "Street Riders" about urban riders in Philadelphia and Brooklyn and Queens. In Philadelphia, the Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club was founded, which cultivates the urban cowboy subculture. This custom, cultivated for several generations by a community of young African-American riders in one of the darkest neighborhoods of the city, in one of the darkest neighborhoods of the city, teaches the children of the neighborhood to ride and is considered a haven of peace in the middle of the ghetto. In addition, dealing with horses is an extremely valuable educational method of teaching children and adults responsibility and discipline. The horses are bought cheaply at auctions, usually the club saves the animals from the horse butcher. The area around Fletcher Street is characterized by high unemployment and drugs, and the Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club has made it its mission to provide a positive environment and a certain stability to the children who otherwise receive no support from any side.
production
|
.jpg)
|
|
|
Caleb McLaughlin plays Cole, Idris Elba his father Harp
|
||
Ricky Staub makes his directorial debut with Concrete Cowboy . Together with Dan Walser , he also adapted Neris' book for the film.
The young actor Caleb McLaughlin plays Cole, Idris Elba his father Harp. Jharrel Jerome plays Smush, Cole's childhood best friend. Lorraine Toussaint , Swen Temmel, Byron Bowers and Jennifer Butler also star.
Filming took place in Philadelphia in the summer of 2019.
The premiere is scheduled for September 13, 2020 at the Toronto International Film Festival . He was also in a selection of films to be shown at the Telluride Film Festival .
literature
Greg Neris: Ghetto Cowboy . With illustrations by Jesse Joshua Watson, Candlewick Press, 2011. ISBN 9780763649227
Web links
- Concrete Cowboy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Concrete Cowboy in the program of the Toronto International Film Festival (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Concrete Cowboy. In: tiff.net. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
- ↑ Concrete Cowboys. In: filmstarts.de. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ↑ http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2011/10/01/review-of-the-day-ghetto-cowboy-by-g-neri/
- ↑ 'Street Riders' and 'Hoofbeats on Fletcher Street'. In: LIFE Magazine, April 22, 2005.
- ↑ ARTE report: USA: Learning to ride in the ghetto. In: ard.de, November 2, 2012.
- ^ Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club. In: fletcherstreeturbanridingclub.com. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ↑ Jochen Müller: Idris Elba lives in Philadelphia. In: Blickpunkt: Film, August 9, 2019.
- ↑ a b Justin Kroll: Idris Elba Sets 'Ghetto Cowboy' as Next Film. In: Variety, August 9, 2018.
- ↑ Concrete Cowboy. In: tiff.net. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
- ↑ Omar Jackson: Production on Idris Elba's 'Concrete Cowboys' Begins in Philadelphia. In: nbcphiladelphia.com, August 9, 2019.
- ↑ Idris Elba has started filming 'Concrete Cowboys' in Philadelphia. In: phillytrib.com, August 12, 2019.
- ↑ Concrete Cowboy. In: tiff.net. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
- ↑ Kate Erbland: TIFF Unveils 2020 Festival Plan: 'Ammonite', Virtual Screenings, and a Reduced Number of Films. In: indiewire.com, June 24, 2020.
- ↑ Andreas Wiseman: Toronto Film Festival Reveals Plan For Slimline 2020 Edition With Mix Of Physical & Digital Screenings; Kate Winslet, Idris Elba & Mark Wahlberg Movies Among First Wave. In: deadline.com, June 24, 2020.
- ↑ Ryan Lattanzio: Telluride Film Festival Reveals 2020 Selections: 'Ammonite', 'Nomadland', Werner Herzog, and More. In: indiewire.com, August 3, 2020.