Dylan O'Brien & Team Ponyboi Insist River Gallo Is Moviemaking Magic

One of the greatest things about the Sundance Film Festival is that it can serve as a launchpad for emerging stars — artists and voices bound to rock this industry and change it for the better in the process. River Gallo is one of those soaring stars in cinema.

Gallo’s acclaimed short film, Ponyboi, is now a feature making waves at the festival. Gallo wrote, produced and stars in the movie as the title character, Ponyboi, an intersex sex worker who gets swept up in a drug deal gone wrong. In an effort to steer clear of the mob and his abusive pimp played by Dylan O’Brien, Ponyboi opts to make a break for it, a decision that demands a harrowing journey through the underbelly of New Jersey on Valentine’s Day.

Gallo, O’Brien, Victoria Pedretti, Indya Moore and director Esteban Arango all visited the Collider interview studio in Park City brought to you by Film.io to discuss their experience making the film. Check out this Ponyboi interview to learn about the process of taking the story from short to feat, and to find out why O’Brien, Pedretti, Moore and Arango are firm believers that Gallo “is light” that could and should continue to be a strong force in filmmaking.

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