Valley of Angels

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Valley of Angels
Valley of Angels North American Poster.jpg
North American poster
Directed byJon Rosten
Produced byEdwin Johnston
Jon Rosten
Spencer Winslow
Written byJon Rosten
Starring Danny Trejo
George Katt
Music byMark Petrie
CinematographyArmando Salas
Edited byJon Rosten
Distributed byPeace Arch Entertainment
ITN Distribution
Release date
  • February 5, 2008 (2008-02-05)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Valley of Angels is a 2008 urban action drama film written and directed by Jon Rosten and starring Danny Trejo and George Katt. The plot concerns a young West LA drug dealer who searches for a path out of his dangerous existence.

Danny Trejo American actor

Danny Trejo is an American actor who has appeared in numerous Hollywood films, often as villains and antiheroes. His films include Heat (1995), Con Air (1997), and Desperado (1995), the last with frequent collaborator Robert Rodriguez. Trejo is perhaps most recognized as the character Machete, originally developed by Rodriguez for the Spy Kids series of movies and later expanded into Trejo's own series of films aimed at a more adult audience. He has appeared in TV shows such as Breaking Bad, Brooklyn Nine Nine, The X-Files, King of the Hill, The Flash, and Sons of Anarchy.

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Plot

The Grand Prize winner of the 2004 WriteMovies.com International Screenwriting Contest, Valley of Angels follows a twenty-something drug dealer who falls into the dark side of the underworld after realizing that the City of Angels has lost its soul. Zachary "Zeus" Andrews is a Chicago transplant who moved to Los Angeles as a young boy, and quickly realized that he would never fit in there. A stranger in a hostile landscape, Zeus quickly became the go-to guy for rich kids in search of drugs. One day, after meeting a girl, he receives a glimpse of his destiny. Now, just as Zeus becomes convinced that he is finally on the path to enlightenment and begins preparing to leave his old life behind, the harsh reality of his grim existence strikes back with vengeance.

Cast

Caroline Macey actress

Caroline Macey is an American actress. Macey is perhaps best known for her role as Lisa in the 2008 action film Valley of Angels opposite Danny Trejo.

Production

Casting for Valley of Angels started in March 2005. The film was shot between Thanksgiving and Christmas of that year with a budget of only $200,000. It debuted in March 2007 at the NY International Independent Film & Video Festival where it took the Grand Jury Prize for Best Picture. The film was released in North America on DVD in February 2008. [1]

Awards

Reception

Independent Film Quarterly says that the film is "a debut feature that is both as confident and skillful as Reservoir Dogs, while containing the spiritual contemplation often inherent in Scorsese’s films." [4]

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References

  1. ↑ IFQ Magazine- Jon Rosten Valley of Angels
  2. ↑ New York Film and Video Festival
  3. ↑ WriteMovies.com - Valley of Angels wins Grand Jury Award
  4. ↑ Independent Film Quarterly Magazine - Valley of Angels
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