Channing Tatum | A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

• Directed by: Dito Montiel
• Screenplay by: Dito Montiel
• Based on: A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints by Dito Montiel
• Produced by: Clara Markowicz, Charlie Corwin, Trudie Styler, Travis Swords
• Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Shia LaBeouf, Rosario Dawson, Melonie Diaz, Eric Roberts, Channing Tatum, Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest
• Cinematography: Éric Gautier
• Edited by: Jake Pushinsky, Christopher Tellefsen
• Music by: Jonathan Elias
• Production companies: Belladonna Productions, Original Media, Xingu Films
• Distributed by: First Look International
• Release date: September 29, 2006
• Running time: 98 minutes

Dito, a writer in L.A., goes home to Astoria, Queens, after a 15-year absence when his mother calls to say his father's ill. In a series of flashbacks we see the young Dito, his parents, his four closest friends, and his girl Laurie, as each tries to navigate family, race, loyalty, sex, coming of age, violence, and wanting out. A ball falls onto the subway tracks at a station, small things get out of hand. Can Dito go home again?

AWARDS

• Sundance Film Festival x2
• Gijón International Film Festival