“Silverback” Poster
Leroy Nguyen – writer, director and star of the gritty festival favorite Black Scar Blues – will soon be releasing his next film, Silverback, a 40-minute independent short film that’s described as “The ballad of a heartbroken brute”.
The film follows Richie (Nguyen), a low-level gangster who has returned to his home turf in order to seek closure for a relationship that devastated him years before.
Previously starting out as a feature film, Silverback was originally submitted into the first Amazon Studios film festival in 2011, where it garnered director and star Leroy Nguyen several Best Actor nominations. The film sat on the shelf until 2018, when it was decided to revisit, re-shoot, and re-edit the film for release. Completed in the winter of 2019, the second version of the film premiered at the Urban Action Showcase International Film Festival, where it won awards for Best Feature Film and Best Actor in the no budget independent film category.
In February 2020, it was decided yet again to re-edit the film, as director Nguyen was not artistically satisfied with the work. The definitive version is now a 40-minute short film, which improves the pacing while most importantly maintaining the spirit of the original.
Rising Tiger Films will be releasing Silverback online via YouTube and Vimeo channels on June 25, 2020. Until then, take a peak at the film’s Trailer below:
