Best of Fest Encores
The Night of the Beast finds us in Bogota, Colombia on a day two friends' dreams are to come true; they've got tickets to see their favorite band play for the first and maybe only time in their lives. The band: Iron Maiden! But, like metal itself, this day is a slow build filled with epic moments and pandemonium.
Vargas and Chuki are high schoolers who have a singular goal on this particular day, to rock as hard as possible at the Iron Maiden concert later that night… until bullies steal their tickets. Vargas (Daniel Esteban Reyes) is handsome and confident, but weighed down by his alcoholic father; Chuki (Esteban Galindo) is overweight and shy, but a good student with a doting mother. Faced with the tragic prospect of having to miss the show of a lifetime, will their friendship endure? Mauricio Leiva Cock's first feature about friensdhip and rock & roll reminds us of the existential pull of live music and its uniting effects.
Director Biography
Born in Bogota, Columbia, Mauricio Leiva-Cock holds an MFA in film from Columbia University in New York. He is the director of the short films “Clankety, Clank” (2010), “Café con leche” (2011), “Bite” (2013), “Los Kaotikos” (2015), “Tsuki” (2017), “Tomada” (2017) and “Butterflies” (2017). Night of the Beast (La Noche de la bestia) (2020) is his debut feature.
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