Filly Brown | |
Producer: | Edward James Olmos |
Starring: |
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Music: | Reza Safinia |
Cinematography: | Ben Kufrin |
Distributor: | Indomina Releasing[1] Pantelion Films[2] (through Lionsgate) |
Runtime: | 101 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Budget: | $2 million[3] |
Gross: | $2.9 million |
Filly Brown is a 2012 drama film directed by Youssef Delara and Michael D. Olmos. It was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and won Best Feature Film at the 2013 Noor Iranian Film Festival.
The whole cast won the Special Achievement in Film award at the 2013 American Latino Media Arts Awards, or ALMA Award. The late Jenni Rivera was honored with a moment of silence.[4] This was Rivera's first and only film before her death on December 9, 2012.
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 45% based on 11 reviews, and an average rating of 5.5/10.[5] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 57 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[6]