BEAST
Nominated by George Miller for the 2020 Byron Kennedy Award for ‘Best Australian Indie Feature Film of the Decade’.
Premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2015.
DIRECTORS
Tom and Sam McKeith
COMPOSER
Helena Czajka
MUSIC SUPERVISOR
Helena Czajka
PRODUCERS
Rob Coe, Bianca Balbuena, Will Jaymes, Carla de Menezes Ribeiro
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Boulevarde Films
DISTRIBUTOR
Madman Entertainment
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Michael Steel
EDITOR
Paul Murphy
Synopsis
Beast follows Jaime (Chad McKinney), a young half-Filipino boxer, and his father Rick (Garret Dillahunt), an American expat, over one life-changing night in Manila.
Rick pressures Jaime to cheat in a boxing match by tampering with his gloves. The result: his opponent Pedro, a local Manila fighter, dies from his injuries.
When Pedro's girlfriend, Divina (Angeli Bayani), uncovers their crime and the police get involved, Jaime is forced to make a decision--stick by the father he loves so much and cover up the crime, or risk everything to save Divina and her young son.