Two decades in the making, award-winning creators team up for a truly heartfelt tale inspired by Southern folklore and Mexican culture
NOV. 6, 2024, (PORTLAND, OR) — Announcing THE WEAKEST FISH, the coming-of-age thriller from the critically acclaimed Sundance fellow and IFF Boston Grand Jury Prize Award-winning director, Bryan Wizemann (About Sunny), featuring art by National Young Graphic Novel and Pixelatl Chinelo Award-winning Mexican artist Edgar Camacho (Onion Skin), is now live on Zoop!
Adapted from the original screenplay first written in 1999, the beautifully illustrated 290-page graphic novel explores themes of love and jealousy, loss and fear, escape and redemption, superstition and the natural world; inspired by Southern Gothic folklore and Mexican culture.
In 1961, outside Nacogdoches, Texas, thirteen-year-old, Tim, accidentally witnesses his mother having an affair. When his family’s secrets ultimately collide, Tim must flee to Mexico on foot, where he discovers a new world.
Bryan Wizemann is an independent director, writer, producer, and editor of film, raised in Las Vegas and based in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been exhibited internationally at film festivals and museums, on IFC and Wholphin, and streamed on Netflix, Amazon, SundanceNow, iTunes, FilmStruck, FilmBuff, and Fandor. His latest feature You Mean Everything To Me was awarded the Rooftop Films and Brigade Festival Publicity grant and accepted into the Sundance Institute Film Music and Sound Design Lab. Wizemann is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Film at Pratt Institute.
“The Weakest Fish is loosely inspired by the attempted murder of a friend at the hand of his father while we were in high school, as well as the various infidelities that contributed to my own parents’ bitter divorce,” said Bryan Wizemann. “It explores the painful transformation that occurs when someone you once loved becomes someone you fear. It embodies the kind of story I would’ve written when I was younger if given the opportunity, and have had the luxury of revisiting and refining the script for over two decades. Collaborating with Edgar in this new medium was a dream—he brought to life the dark, lyrical realism and cross-cultural nuances that I couldn’t access alone. We’re incredibly proud of this graphic novel.”
“I am very grateful to be part of this project,” said Edgar Camacho. “Bryan gave me complete creative freedom to adapt his vision to the world of comics. Playing with color, style, narrative, everything was a very pleasant journey!”
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To learn more, visit https://theweakestfish.com/ or https://bryanwizemann.com/.
