• List Price: $24.95  
• Your Price: $24.95
• In Stock: 26

You must login to place orders.




Not purchasing for a business? See our consumer site.

Inspired by true events, with a surreal aesthetic and disruptive narrative that underscores the disenchantment and dangers of investigative journalism in Mexico, EL HOMBRE BÚFALO follows Eric, a young journalist in Mexico City who stops writing after he receives death threats. Obsessed with an elderly homeless man who has dementia and a mythical being who takes care of abandoned children, he decides to write again, even if it costs him his life.

Since 2000, at least 133 journalists have been killed in Mexico - rated by the Reporters Without Borders organization as the most dangerous country without war in which to practice journalism, behind only Afghanistan and Syria.

Media

Watch trailer »

Sales Points

• For fans of Magical Realism.
• Inspired by true events and the poetry of Julio Cortázar.
• Comparable to Mexican films like Tempestad and La Libertad del Diablo.
• Official Selection - Chihuahua International Film Festival
• Official Selection - Macabro Festival Internacional de Cine de Horror
• Winner - Best Actor (Raúl Briones), Festival Internacional de Cine del Mar (Uruguay)
• For fans of The Rum Diary, Bliss, Balibo, and films about journalism.
• Winner - IndiePix Vision Award, Socially Relevant Film Festival
• Winner - Jury Special Mention, Editing, Festival Internacional de Cine del Mar (Uruguay)
• Winner - Best Screenplay (David Torres), Festival Internacional de Cine del Mar (Uruguay)
• Winner - Best Picture, Festival Internacional de Cine del Mar (Uruguay)

Press Quotes

Inspired by true events, with a surreal aesthetic and disruptive narrative that underscores the disenchantment and dangers of investigative journalism in Mexico, El Hombre Búfalo, follows Eric, a young journalist in Mexico City who stops writing after he receives death threats.

     —Bob Morello, Video Views