So you may have asked yourself, with all of the success that filmmaker Israel Luna has been getting lately with his high-quality films on a budget "what was his first project?" and "did it look as amazing as his current works?" well! According to Israel in an impromptu interview I had with the star, he claims, the independent Dallas feature, Str8 Up, was his first feature-length project.
The movie is described by Luna as a "look into Dallas, Texas' gay nightlife". The project was done with a non-professional production company that is no longer in business. According to Israel, the as-of-now unnamed company "didn't know what they were doing" and it showed, as years later they went out of business; but with that Str8 Up is no longer in circulation, Israel doesn't even have a copy of the film.
Thankfully of few of the movie's stars own it and most likely on VHS. Str8 Up was released direct-to-video in 2001 but was filmed in 1999. It wasn't in the best quality, having been taken "right off the camera" as I phrased it- No sound mixing or color correction I meant.
The only actor to be confirmed (to me) to be in the film, is Miranda Martinez, an actress that has appeared in a couple of Israel's other film projects, including Is Anybody There (2002) and the film's re-make, The Ouija Experiment (2011). The Ouija Experiment and its sequel, The Ouija Resurrection, have been doing very well at Redbox; getting into stores like Walmart nationwide, a first for Luna who has prior to this mainly been releasing his work to online retailers after a few festival screenings.
As of now I do not have a trailer or a theatrical poster for the film. Thank you Israel Luna for the interview!
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