USA
DIE LIKE A MAN
120 MIN
2025
Set in the heart of a West L.A. neighborhood in Venice coping with a violent past and gentrification, a single mom tries to reclaim her 17-year-old son Freddy from Solo, a recently paroled gangster who has become a father figure to him.
Cast & Crew
Producers: Eric Nazarian, Sean Patrick Burke, Javier Chapa, Tommy Oliver
Director: Eric Nazarian
Script: Eric Nazarian
Directors of Photography: Bartosz Nalazek, Piotr Sobocinski Jr.
Production Design: Francisco Covarrubias, Adele Biraghi
Music: John Jennings Boyd
Sound: Jacob Varley
Cast: Miguel Angel Garcia, Cory Hardrict, Mariel Molino, Frankie Loyal, Laura Patalano, Cesar Garcia
Production. Voyager Pictures Inc., Confluential Films, 222 Pictures
Cast & Crew
Producers: Eric Nazarian, Sean Patrick Burke, Javier Chapa, Tommy Oliver
Director: Eric Nazarian
Script: Eric Nazarian
Directors of Photography: Bartosz Nalazek, Piotr Sobocinski Jr.
Production Design: Francisco Covarrubias, Adele Biraghi
Music: John Jennings Boyd
Sound: Jacob Varley
Cast: Miguel Angel Garcia, Cory Hardrict, Mariel Molino, Frankie Loyal, Laura Patalano, Cesar Garcia
Production. Voyager Pictures Inc., Confluential Films, 222 Pictures
Eric Nazarian
Born in Armenia and raised in Los Angeles, Eric Nazarian is a graduate of the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts where he earned a B.A. in Film Production. The Blue Hour, his first feature film as writer-director, is composed of four stories about working-class lives near the Los Angeles River The film's world premiere took place at the 55th San Sebastian IFF and was nominated for the Altadis-New Director's Award. The Blue Hour went to screen at the 25th Torino FF in the Official Selection and was named "Film of the Day" by the European Network of Young Cinema. The film premiered in the U.S. at the 10th Arpa IFF where Nazarian was presented with the Best Director Award. At the 5th Golden Apricot IFF, The Blue Hour received the Golden Apricot for the Best Film in the Armenian Panorama, the Ecumenical Jury Award and the Prime Minister's Award. Nazarian received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences prestigious Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting for his screenplay, Giants. In 2010, Nazarian made Bolis, a short film about a descendant of a Genocide survivor in Istanbul. Nazarian adapted Chris Bohjalian's New York Times bestselling, critically acclaimed novel, The Sandcastle Girls that he is also attached to produce and direct. Three Christs, his adaptation of Milton Rokeach's The Three Christs of Ypsilanti with director Jon Avnet premiered at the Toronto IFF.
Filmography
A Quiet Passion (1999) Requiem for a Bolshevik (1999), Erotas (1999), The Blue Hour (2007), Bolis (2011), Tumo (short, 2016), Aurora (short, 2016), Interactions: When Cinema Looks to Nature (2022), Tatanka (short, 2022), Die Like a Man (2025).
Born in Armenia and raised in Los Angeles, Eric Nazarian is a graduate of the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts where he earned a B.A. in Film Production. The Blue Hour, his first feature film as writer-director, is composed of four stories about working-class lives near the Los Angeles River The film's world premiere took place at the 55th San Sebastian IFF and was nominated for the Altadis-New Director's Award. The Blue Hour went to screen at the 25th Torino FF in the Official Selection and was named "Film of the Day" by the European Network of Young Cinema. The film premiered in the U.S. at the 10th Arpa IFF where Nazarian was presented with the Best Director Award. At the 5th Golden Apricot IFF, The Blue Hour received the Golden Apricot for the Best Film in the Armenian Panorama, the Ecumenical Jury Award and the Prime Minister's Award. Nazarian received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences prestigious Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting for his screenplay, Giants. In 2010, Nazarian made Bolis, a short film about a descendant of a Genocide survivor in Istanbul. Nazarian adapted Chris Bohjalian's New York Times bestselling, critically acclaimed novel, The Sandcastle Girls that he is also attached to produce and direct. Three Christs, his adaptation of Milton Rokeach's The Three Christs of Ypsilanti with director Jon Avnet premiered at the Toronto IFF.
Filmography
A Quiet Passion (1999) Requiem for a Bolshevik (1999), Erotas (1999), The Blue Hour (2007), Bolis (2011), Tumo (short, 2016), Aurora (short, 2016), Interactions: When Cinema Looks to Nature (2022), Tatanka (short, 2022), Die Like a Man (2025).
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