“Everything stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid.” That’s the first thought we hear from Dayveon (Devin Blackmon), the 13-year-old protagonist of Amman Abbasi’s heartfelt debut. And it’s hard to argue with ...

A creeping naturalism inhabits virtually every frame of “Dayveon,” an atmospheric first feature by Amman Abbasi chronicling a teenage boy’s troubling rite of passage during a sweltering rural Arkansas ...

"You in this now, ain't no turning back." FilmRise has unveiled the first official trailer for the indie drama Dayveon, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Dayveon is ...

Executive produced by David Gordon Green, this poetic rural drama is graced with the same humanist shine that defined "George Washington." “Look at that stupid house. Stupid tree. Stupid rock. Stupid ...

FilmRise has acquired the North American rights to the rural drama “Dayveon,” which premiered last Friday in the Sundance Film Festival’s NEXT section. The film marks the feature debut for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FilmRise has acquired North American rights to Dayveon, the feature-film debut of writer-director Amman Abbasi. This is coming off ...

As a young Pakistani immigrant growing up in Arkansas, director, composer and writer Amman Abbasi has experienced “America” through a unique lens, with which he uses in his filmmaking. Today on The ...

EXCLUSIVE: Amman Abbasi’s Dayveon is making its world premiere as the opening-night film of the Sundance Film Festival‘s NEXT sidebar. It’s Abbasi’s first feature, and he’s flanked by executive ...

Hailed one of Filmmaker‘s 25 New Faces in 2016, Amman Abbasi makes his Sundance and feature film debut with Dayveon. The film stars Devin Blackmon as a 13-year-old kid coping with the violent death of ...

Debut director Amman Abbasi shows flickers of promise, but is overly beholden to his influences in this Arkansas-set coming-of-ager. You needn’t wait for a long list of executive producers in the ...

Executive produced by David Gordon Green, "Dayveon" premiered last Friday in the Sundance Film Festival’s NEXT section. FilmRise has acquired the North American rights to the rural drama “Dayveon,” ...