Tropical Vulture

Tropical Vulture is a cross-generational project which highlights the artistic influences between George Kuchar, a Bay Area legend of independent filmmaking, and Mexican artist Miguel Calderón. Tropical Vulture is an experimental narrative video, co-directed by both artists, and blends Hollywood glamour and drama with an all-too-real life approach, which creates and inspires a counterpoint of unattainable desire against unbearable actuality. The video, shot on location in Acapulco, utilizes a “lo-fi” aesthetic and playful use of nonprofessional actors. Tropical Vulture is entrenched in corruption, tourism, and post-colonialism and it uses a loose narrative to create a portrait of a relationship between student and teacher.

• Miguel CalderonDirector
• George KucharDirector

• George KucharDean
• Cecilia PelosiCecilia
• Mauricio CalderonMauricio
• Elizabeth Gonzalez HardmanEllie
• Sarah FanelliSarah
• ZamoraCop
• CadeteCop II
• SacaleBoat Driver
• PalominoFather in Law
• AlfredoCoconut Guy
• Aldegundo EsteuezIsland Guy