''Booger Red'' is a 2015 film written by Johnny McAllister and
Berndt Mader and directed by the latter. It premiered in the Spirit Theater in the
Bob Bullock Museum, as part of the
Austin Film Festival
Austin Film Festival (AFF), founded in 1994, is an organization in Austin, Texas, that focuses on writers’ creative contributions to film. Initially, AFF was called the Austin Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference and functioned to launch the ...
, in 2015.
The film documents a journalist named Onur Turkel,
played by
Onur Turkel,
who had experienced child abuse in his past, investigating a possibly fabricated child abuse case.
[ Its basis is a 2009 magazine article by Michael Hall, a journalist of the '']Texas Monthly
''Texas Monthly'' (stylized as ''TexasMonthly'') is a monthly American magazine headquartered in Downtown Austin, Texas. ''Texas Monthly'' was founded in 1973 by Michael R. Levy and has been published by Emmis Publishing, L.P. since 1998 and is ...
'' who investigated the controversial "Mineola Swingers' Club" case in Mineola, Texas
Mineola is a city in the U.S. state of Texas in Wood County, Texas, Wood County. It lies 26 miles north of Tyler. Its population was 4,823 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census.
The town was incorporated as the railroads arrived in 1873. ...
.[
The main character, Turkel, is intended to be an ]audience surrogate
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—in other words, a stra ...
.[ Mader stated that he chose the actor Turkel as he could portray a "maniac".][ Hall stated that the main character is "a fornicating, drug-snorting, bearded wild man who bears absolutely no resemblance to me."][ The main character's sister-in-law, played by ]Marija Karan
Marija Karan ( sr-cyr, Марија Каран; born 29 April 1982) is a Serbian actress. She had her film debut in '' Kad porastem biću Kengur'' and appeared after this in '' Jesen stiže, dunjo moja''.
She was born in Belgrade. In 2007, Kara ...
, is his main ally.[
Caitlin Moore of the '']Austin Chronicle
''The Austin Chronicle'' is an alternative weekly newspaper published every Thursday in Austin, Texas, United States. The paper is distributed through free news-stands, often at local eateries or coffee houses frequented by its targeted demogr ...
'' wrote that "is stylistically inspired by Abbas Kiarostami
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's ''Close-Up
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''".[
]
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2015 films
American drama films
2010s American films
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