Tribeca Film Festival to Screen World Premiere of LIVE CARGO
By: TV News Desk Apr. 08, 2016
The Tribeca Film Festival will present the World Premiere of LIVE CARGO on April 15, 2016 as part of the US Narrative Competition.
A grieving couple retreats to a remote Bahamian island where they become entangled in a dangerous turf war between the island's mayor and a greedy human trafficker.
Directed by Logan Sandler, LIVE CARGO stars Dree Hemingway, Keith Stanfield, Robert Wisdom, Leonard Howze and Sam Dillon. Produced by Thymaya Payne.Following a devastating loss, Nadine (Dree Hemingway, STARLET) and Lewis (Keith Stanfield, SHORT TERM 12) retreat to a small Bahamian island where Nadine's family has kept a house for many years. As they try to heal and move forward with their relationship, the community on THE ISLAND shows signs of unraveling -- with the island's mayor, Roy (Robert Wisdom, "The Wire"), squaring off against Doughboy (Leonard Earl Howze), a human trafficker who manipulates the impressionable homeless teenager Myron (Sam Dillon) into assisting with his smuggling operation.
Based on writer-director Logan Sandler's own experience growing up in and around the Bahamas, LIVE CARGO is a powerful meditation on love, loss and healing in a post-colonial world. Shot entirely in black and white, the film upends the "tropical paradise" archetype through its sharp, neorealist focus on the day-to-day of THE ISLAND community. Newcomer Dillon delivers a breakout performance as Myron, a mysterious, homeless youth who is desperate to belong. LIVE CARGO marks Sandler's feature directorial debut and is co-written and produced by Thymaya Payne, director and producer of the award-winning documentary STOLEN SEAS.Videos