The Film The Gasoline Thieves Premieres at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival
It is definitely a good sign to actually be the first film accepted into the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival because that is exactly what happened with film “The Gasoline Thieves.”
The story is groundbreaking, suspenseful and quite intense. The tale follows a
fourteen-year-old boy named Lalo (Eduardo Banda)living with his mother and working as a farmhand in his hometown.
It is a tough life, but he believes that buying a smartphone for his high-school crush the only surefire way into her heart. When his mother is forced to use his savings in order to pay for medical bills, Lalo decides to approach the local huachicoleros for help, who quickly enlist his aid in their business of illegally siphoning gas in order to take advantage of the country’s shortage and re-sell on the black market. As Lalo naively becomes more involved with the huachicoleros’ work, an uneasy air of violence begins to overtake the world around him, while investigators narrow their search for those responsible.
Depicted in beautifully sun-drenched imagery and grounded in Banda’s remarkable first on-screen performance, director Edgar Nito crafts an intensely resonant and engrossing story of the tightening grip facing both his protagonist and his country with this feature debut.
The film gives a gripping view of what is happening in this part of the world for many.
