‘Sunburn’ Director on Warm, Hangout Drama: “I Really Wanted to Make a Film Like That for the ’Hood”

Serville Poblete was determined Sunburn wouldn't be focused on gang violence

Serville Poblete's latest offering - premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) - follows a group of young people in St. James Town, a ‘hood in Toronto, as they’re forced off their cell phones due to a citywide blackout.

MoreThan Films Acquires Serville Poblete’s Buzzy Toronto Hangout Comedy ‘Sunburn’

International sales agency MoreThan Films has acquired the rights to “Sunburn,” by award-winning director Serville Poblete, ahead of its world premiere as part of the Centrepiece strand of the Toronto International Film Festival. The agency will handle international sales, with Julien Levesque from Gersh handling domestic sales. “Sunburn” is set in St. James Town, a […]

‘Sunburn’ Director on Warm, Hangout Drama: “I Really Wanted to Make a Film Like That for the ’Hood”

Serville Poblete has young people joking and dishing on crushes amid a summer heatwave in his debut feature set for a world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.

Sunburn Director Talks Toronto-Set Movie With Warmth No Gang Violence

Sunburn director Serville Poblete resists stereotypes with his Toronto-set ‘hood film with no scenes of gang violence or police brutality. The Filipino-Canadian filmmaker’s coming-of-age hangout drama, set in St. James Town, a downtown housing complex in Canada’s biggest city, instead features young people forced off their cell phone screens by a citywide power blackout and […]