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Josh Polon

@JoshPolon

The Legend of MexMan, One Road to Quartzsite, My Dead Dad’s Porno 📼’s, Only the Young, HBO’s Animals. 🐴🐦, Baltimore braised

 Los Angeles, CA
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Joined September 2009
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Proud to have played a small part in helping @joshpolon’s THE LEGEND OF MEXMAN come into the world. Now available in blu ray edition from @dekanalog via @vinegarsyndrome. Fans of AMERICAN MOVIE and STEVIE take note. vinegarsyndrome.com/products…

The Legend of MexMan

Working out of an abandoned hangar at a small regional airport in East Los Angeles, Germán Alonso surrounds himself in a Gilliam-esque fantasy world, expres...

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THE LEGEND OF MEXMAN by @JoshPolon is having it's Los Angeles premiere at @prs_org on April 25th. Q&A with Germán Alonso and Jonathan Sims moderated by the great @DavyRothbart. Fans of AMERICAN MOVIE and OVERNIGHT take note. Tickets here: eventbrite.com/e/the-legend-…
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🏆 Congratulations to all of our award winners at #IFFBoston2024! 🏆 Here are our Special Jury and Grand Jury Prize winners for narrative and documentary shorts 🎉
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alex lei@alexL_E_I29 Aug 2023
my last piece of coverage for @NewNextFilmFest i reviewed one of my favorites from the fest, The Legend of MexMan, @JoshPolon’s hilarious and heartbreaking doc following his unbelievably creative friend as he tries to turn his student short into a feature splicetoday.com/moving-pictu…
MexMan on His Own Terms

MexMan on His Own Terms

Josh Polon's The Legend of MexMan follows Germán Alonso as he tries to convert his USC student short into a feature film.

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The first edition of @NewNextFilmFest was a resounding success. Our @alexL_E_I was on the ground for Baltimore's great new film fest: pastemagazine.com/movies/fil…
New/Next Film Festival 2023: Baltimore's Successful Return to the Arthouse

New/Next Film Festival 2023: Baltimore's Successful Return to the Arthouse

New/Next Film Festival 2023 was a return to form for the Baltimore film community. Here's our roundup of the inaugural fest's films:

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Con @JoshPolon, director de la genial 'The Legend of Mexman'. Otra de mis favoritas de @DOQUMENTAmx 2023.
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"One Road to Quartzsite" is a documentary about a desert town that draws a large population of displaced people in America. If it sounds like "Nomadland," well, fair, but this is a broader & deeper look at a community of the kind that inspired that film. midwestfilmjournal.com/2022/…

One Road to Quartzsite

A documentary filled with heart, humanity and genuine empathy for people off the grid.

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Today is my Birthday, and also the launch of the @Kickstarter for my narrative directorial debut short, October Mourning. This film has been a labor of love for the last two years, and I am thrilled about the opportunity of sharing it with all of you. kck.st/3nQmJRR
October Mourning, a Narrative Short film by Writer/Director Frederick Thornton

ALT October Mourning, a Narrative Short film by Writer/Director Frederick Thornton

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Today is May Day in the middle of a pandemic that has lifted the veil on some of the arbitrary cruelties of capitalism. Seems about right for the release of our 360 documentary about the human costs of gentrification in Boyle Heights. Link in bio #1stMay #MayDay2020 #MayDayStrike – at Los Angeles, CA
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The end of an era as @KCRW moves from its longtime bunker to a brand new building—one with windows and a kitchen and more than two toilets. (No more waiting in the hall while hopping up and down.) Now that we’re going, @kaitlinparker and I are a little sad.
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Winner of Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking is @mddptfilm by @charlie_tyrell #CEH19
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dear Academy members as well as humans of earth, as far as short docs go, I think this is a good one MY DEAD DAD'S PORNO TAPES vimeo.com/292537862
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Congratulations @charlie_tyrell on your #CEH19 Nomination for Outstanding Nonfiction Short Film for @mddptfilm! @nytopinion Op-Docs
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Here are the #CEH19 Nonfiction Short Film Nominees: #BabyBrother | Dir by @kamaubilal #ConcussionProtocol | Dir by @joshbegley #MyDeadDadsPornoTapes | Dir by @charlie_tyrell #SkipDay | Dir by @IveteLucas & Patrick Bresnan #Volte | Dir by Monika Kotecka y Karolina Poryzala
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.@TheDukeMitchell #DukeFest opener @MEXMANfilm was an inspiring bittersweet and brilliant outsider story of a passionate puppets-obsessed filmmaker battling people trying to steal his vision, unrequited love and a conspiracy theory preoccupation in order to realise his dream. – at Camberwell, London
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Catch the London Premiere of @JoshPolon's @MexmanFilm • as part of #DukeFest • presented by @TheDukeMitchell Sun 8th July 21:10 Tickets -> bit.ly/2J0LaVl vimeo.com/251253214
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2 festivals down, 26 to go mexmanfilm instagram.com/p/BhLTR60nuXo/
Spend your Sunday afternoon with five films about animals, including “Wiener-Dog,” “Au Hasard Balthazar,” and more. nyer.cm/WEORisj
What to Stream This Weekend

What to Stream This Weekend

Each week, Richard Brody picks a classic film, a modern film, an independent film, a foreign film, and a documentary for online viewing.

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Film Threat is sponsoring a screening of Mexman on Mon, Mar 19 @ArcLightCinemas in Hollywood, presented by Slamdance Cinema Club, Chris Gore hosts Q&A with director Josh Polon. RT to win FREE tix! facebook.com/events/16031379…
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