Vince Banderos — Loren Castingavi

As Banderos puts it, standing up to leave the cafe: “Loren once told me that a film is just a series of doors. You don’t need to show what’s behind every door. You just need to show the hand on the knob.”

By Eleanor Hayes, Senior Film Correspondent Vince Banderos Loren Castingavi

Though they have not yet collaborated on a full feature, the industry is already murmuring about the “Banderos-Castingavi voltage”—a hypothetical alchemy of Banderos’s bruised, minimalist acting and Castingavi’s architecturally precise directing. Vince Banderos does not perform. He endures . As Banderos puts it, standing up to leave

That hand is trembling. And we cannot wait to see it turn. Eleanor Hayes covers independent cinema and international film festivals for Reel South Magazine. As Banderos puts it