"A crazy tale..."

The Legend of MEXMAN screened last weekend at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. I was hoping to attend in person but my flight was canceled last minute (as in... 9PM the night before a 6AM flight). The window for the trip was so short I would have missed the first screening with no guarantee of making it to the second (or returning from California).

Sadly I missed out, but I've been able to live vicariously through director Josh Polon and producer Steve Bannatyne, who've kept myself and co-editor / co-producer Jason Wehling updated on the screenings and the response to the film. 

We've collected a few reviews so far, all positive. Alan Ng from Film Threat heaped effusive praise on the film, calling it "fascinating and heartbreaking." He writes:

Writer-director Josh Polon’s The Legend of MexMan is an incredible behind-the-scenes documentary, particularly for emerging filmmakers. It’s an essay, of sorts, about the war-like tension between art and the business of art. It also serves as a not-so-typical discussion on mental health.

Ng really nails what we were hoping to achieve with Legend of Mexman.

Unseen Films also review Legend of Merman, describing it as "a crazy tale of a filmmaker in over his head." 

The Santa Barbara Independentnotes that "Polon concocts a hard-to-describe adventure in which documentary truth, neo-non-fiction and film-about-film qualities collide."

If you have some time, there's this video review by Team JVS:

It's always gratifying to see audiences connect with your work and see the intention so clearly.