WINNER-2007 AUSTIN CHRONICLE READER'S POLL. Best Emergent Local Filmmaker-Rowdy Stovall.
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Audience Award
California Independent Film Festival

Best Feature Film
Drama
Breckenridge Film Festival

Best Feature Film
Suspense-Thriller
WorldFest International Film Festival

Best Feature Film
Drama/Thriller
Barebones International Film Festival
Nominated for Best Ensemble Cast

...actor-turned-writer/director Stovall ushers in a new talent on the Austin landscape. Stovall's feature tells the story of a south-of-the-border bachelor party gone horribly wrong and is a taut thriller that effectively uses foreshadowing to ramp up the suspense. The filmmaker's strong visual and narrative sensibility is enhanced by the use of several familiar locales.
Marjorie Baumgarten, The Austin Chronicle

"Mexican Sunrise is a fast paced, well written blend of drama, thrills and action. A "Very Bad Things" south of the border. A reminder of the cost of redemption and the price of friendship. A true must-see movie."
Oscar Ray, Marketing Director, Barebones International Independent Film Festival

"Mexican Sunrise immediately grabs you from the very beginning with the intense scene of someone being buried alive. You don't know who it is or how they got there, but you are definitely intrigued from the start. With the use of flashbacks the director does a great job developing characters and relationships between the five friends. You get a really good sense of who these guys are and you almost feel like you know them or someone like them in your own life. The flash forwards throughout the movie keeps the intense feeling that something bad is coming. It's keeps the audience intrigued with anticipation as the story unfolds. I was fortunate enough to see this film at Houston's Worldfest Film Festival. I hope many of you will get a chance to see this in theaters soon."
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Raising the Sun: "One of Tom Copeland's last acts before retiring as Texas Film Commission head was to rave about writer/director Rowdy Stovall and his indie film Mexican Sunrise..."
Joe O'Connell, Austin Chronicle

"Rowdy Stovall is a filmmaker that does not try to play it safe. We are looking for talented filmmakers with new visions, and distinctive voices, and Mexican Sunrise fit well into this."
Don Franken, Festival Director, Method Fest

"Mexican Sunrise is the ultimate bachelor party nightmare, a taut, suspenseful thriller that leaves you hanging until the end."
Daniel Cox, Newport Beach Film Festival

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