Keep your eye out for Drago Sumonja who co-wrote the screenplay "Lucky" starring Harry Dean Stanton, Ed Begley Jr., Tom Skerritt, Ron Livingston and David Lynch - Directed by John Carroll Lynch. Lucky just premiered at the 2017 SXSW film festival.
Everything Harry Dean Stanton has done in his career, and his life, has brought him to his moment of triumph in “Lucky,” an unassumingly wonderful little film about nothing in particular and everything that’s important. Scripters Logan Sparks and Drago Sumonja wrote their screenplay (a scenario that is arrestingly allusive and rigorously precise, in the manner of an exceptionally well-crafted short story) with Stanton in mind as the title character, and they embellished their handiwork with Stanton-specific biographical detail. Long-time admirers of the iconic character actor would likely embrace this indie dramedy if it were nothing more than a hand-tooled star vehicle for a living legend. But “Lucky” is something a good deal more substantial than the cinematic equivalent of a lifetime achievement award. It’s also a stealthily affecting and unpretentiously thoughtful meditation on community and mortality, and existential dread and transcendence, in the form of a richly amusing shaggy-dog story that features Stanton’s finest performance since “Paris, Texas.” - Joe Leydon Variety
Drago has known Harry as well, because Drago did a beautiful documentary called Character, and that’s how I knew Drago, along with a short film that we did together. Big admirer of Drago’s work, both as an actor and as a filmmaker, so when he handed me the script, I took it seriously. - John Carroll Lynch
ABOUT DRAGO SUMONJA
Writer, Director, Actor and Producer - Drago Sumonja will be at the screening of the film Cortez in Los Angeles 4/10 at the ArcLight Hollywood and ArcLight Chicago 4/20 where he plays Eric the long-suffering friend and road manager. Cortez is a romantic drama filmed in Taos, NM Directed by Cheryl Nichols.
Drago Sumonja is a graduate of California Institute of the Arts, School of Theatre, where he earned a BFA in acting.
Mr. Sumonja's directorial debut was the feature documentary "char•ac•ter" (2009) -- a candid dialogue about the life and craft of acting between longtime colleagues and friends Dabney Coleman, Peter Falk, Charles Grodin, Mark Rydell, Sydney Pollack and Harry Dean Stanton. Sumonja notably was presented with the Emerging Filmmaker Award at the 2009 Santa Fe Film Festival (World Premiere).
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ArcLight Hollywood 4/10
ArcLight Chicago 4/20