The Wrecker Kings
Sharp, stunning, and reverent, Kevin Berriz's The Wrecker Kings is a satirical look at the disproportionate state of nature in Florida.
SYNOPSIS
Set along the stretch of highway that cuts through the Florida Everglades, The Wrecker Kings follows the owner of a failing inn (Adam Chefitz) and his friend, a roadkill collector (Jeff Malo), as they devise a Bigfoot hoax to draw in tourists; but a Miccosukee Hunter (Betty Osceola) is set to make sure that doesn’t happen.
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Kevin Berriz
PRODUCED BY Robert Colom
STARRING Betty Osceola, Adam Chefitz, Jeff Malo, and Dave Barry
CO-PRODUCED BY Houston Cypress and David Hans Lau
CINEMATOGRAPHY & EDITING BY Kevin Berriz
PRODUCTION DESIGN BY Lauren Coghlan
SELECTED PRESS
“Barry Jenkins, Boots Riley and Patricia Clarkson to appear at 36th Miami Film Festival”
By Hans Morgenstern – February 1, 2019. Independent Ethos.
“All I’ll say about Berriz’s work is that its as if Apichatpong Weerasethakul came to the Everglades and made a short film about it.” –Hans Morgenstern
A MESSAGE FROM director KEVIN BERRIZ
This is a film about relationships with place. We live in a time of mediated interactions and spectacle where a trip to nature means a trip to the zoo. Through the characters in this film, the ideas of ownership, cultural history, and environmental sanctity clash. The Wrecker Kings is a labor of love born from a reverence and respect for a patch of Florida whose land and culture are slowly being paved and fading into the past. Our aim was to tell a Florida story today, one that can resonate with the inhabitants of this place and that could introduce new generations to this forgotten land filled with mystery, humor, and spirit.
