The first film from San Antonio-based company Armando Montelongo Productions will have a limited release in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and San Antonio on Sept. 6.
AMC Theaters will play Mission Park, the first film from San Antonio-based production company Armando Montelongo Productions, in select theaters in September, as part of its AMC Independent platform.
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The crime drama was written and directed by Bryan Anthony Ramirez and produced by real estate mogul and former star of A&E’s Flip This House Armando Montelongo. The film follows a group of four friends who become divided when two fall into a life of crime and the other two become FBI agents who are sent undercover to attempt to bring down their former best friends. It was filmed in San Antonio, Texas.
The pic stars Jeremy Ray Valdez (Walkout), Walter Perez (The Avengers), Fernanda Romero (Drag me to Hell), Joseph Julian Soria (Crank: High Voltage) and Will Rothhaar (Battle Los Angeles), actor/producer Douglas Spain (Without Men). It also features Vivica A. Fox, Will Estes and Sean Patrick Flanery.
Mission Park won the best narrative feature, best director and best acting performance (for Perez) prizes at this year’s Boston International Film Festival, the Special Jury Prize for Best Feature Film at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival and Best Feature at the 2013 Reel Rasquache Art & Film Festival.
You can check out an exclusive Hulu trailer here.
