“Jimmy was amazing as Omar because he is Omar. In a statement, director Quintana concurred with the film’s star. We were both pretty shocked how similar the story of my life was to the circumstances in this movie.” “When we started to get to know each other, there was this unexplainable synchronicity. When Gonzales met with director Quintana, they ended up going to lunch - which lasted three hours. He first auditioned for a small role, as a gang leader from the orphanage director’s drug-running past who shows up uninvited. Leading man Gonzales, who knows these realities all too well, lends the story authenticity through his performance.
By contrast, “Blue Miracle” doesn’t shy from presenting street-level violence and poverty, albeit while retaining a “PG” rating. Past family movies representing the hardscrabble lives of orphans have sometimes come across as saccharin and sanitized.
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“We took some creative license by combining a few characters because otherwise there were too many in play. “When I first heard this story, it’s almost like it was too cinematic to be real,” Dowling told me. Quintana worked with screenwriter Chris Dowling, the filmmaker behind NFL star Tim Tebow’s recent faith-based drama “Run the Race,” to craft the true events into a final script. Following his acclaimed drama “The Vessel,” executive produced by his mentor, the legendary Terrence Malick, Quintana makes his directorial debut with “Blue Miracle.” In October 2014, the mostly amateur team won at Bisbee’s Black and Blue Fishing Tournament, with their winnings going to expand the orphanage.Īnother emerging force in Latino cinema, writer-director Julio Quintana helms the faith-and-family-centered biopic. Recently in TV’s “Mayans M.C.” and “Lodge 49,” Gonzales stars alongside award-winner Dennis Quaid (“Frequency” and “The Rookie”) who plays a hardened fisherman forced by circumstances to launch out with orphanage director Venegas and his young charges to compete in the world’s biggest offshore fishing competition.
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