August Evening

August Evening (2007)

A film about a farm worker named Jaime and his young, widowed daughter-in-law, Lupe, as their lives are in turmoil.

Date of release
2007-06-21
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (4)
Runtime
2h 8m
Genres
Drama
Director
Chris Eska

Casting

Interesting facts

August Evening is a 2007 Spanish-language American drama film written, directed, and edited by Chris Eska. It stars Pedro Castaneda, Veronica Loren, Abel Becerra, Walter Perez, Sandra Rios, Raquel Gavia, and Cesar Flores. It follows the relationship between an aging, undocumented farm worker and his young, widowed daughter-in-law.

Production

Chris Eska wrote the screenplay in just a few weeks, drawing inspiration from his own family and from Latino families he knew in Texas. In a 2008 interview, Eska recalled how the idea for August Evening came about:

I wanted to explore ideas that were important to me and that I rarely see in other films, even if it wouldn't strike Hollywood types as a potential blockbuster. The film deals with the meaning of family, the inevitability of change, the bittersweet nature of life, and finding peace with life's imperfections.

Eska began casting in California and Texas in May 2005, with non-actor Pedro Castaneda selected to play the lead role. The film was shot in Gonzales, Texas in August 2005, and over 55 hours of footage was sifted and edited during the course of 2006.

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