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GUNMAN is a gripping crime thriller told in real time and captured in a single continuous shot, exploding on Digital December 8 from Well Go USA Entertainment. The film has been praised for its “technical audacity and immersive storytelling,” and its bold one-take approach places every moment of danger and pressure directly in front of the audience. GUNMAN will also land on Blu-ray™ and DVD exclusively through Amazon® on February 16, giving audiences another chance to experience its relentlessly immediate, impossible-to-look-away intensity.
Set in a Buenos Aires barrio ruled by drug cartels, GUNMAN follows disgraced ex-hitman Galgo as he exits prison stripped of his former power. Desperate to reclaim his lost standing, he accepts a demeaning job from his old boss to intimidate a local business owner. But what should be a thirty-second task explodes into chaos, double-dealing, and violence. Pursued by enemies and his past, Galgo must navigate a single night to reclaim his identity before time runs out—a pressure-cooker setup that makes the film’s real-time, single-take approach feel all the more gripping and immediate.
Writer-director Cristian Tapia Marchiori leads a cast that includes Sergio Podeley (I Am Toxic), Julieta Díaz (Juan y Eva), Ramiro Blas (The Passenger), Mariano Torre (Lateral Thinking), Matías Desiderio (Hubbert Street), Susana Varela (Kryptonite), Gonzalo Gravano (“Protectors”), and Bianca Di Pasquale in her feature film debut.
The film won the Young Jury Award at the 2025 Fant Bilbao Fantastic Film Festival, received 13 nominations at the 2025 Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards—including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Sergio Podeley—and earned eight nominations from the 2025 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Argentina. The filmmaking challenge is enormous: sustaining an approximately 80-minute single take demands precise choreography, airtight timing, committed performances, and a camera team capable of moving with absolute purpose.
TRAILER TACTICAL REACTION
GUNMAN looks like a kinetic, pressure-cooker blast of crime-thriller intensity, and I’m especially hooked by how committed it seems to its real-time, one-take approach. Locking the story into a single, continuous shot doesn’t just feel like a stylistic flex—it means the camera never lets you step away from the danger, tracking every decision and mistake as it happens.
By refusing to cut, the film can keep the tension simmering and then boiling over, making the action feel more immediate, more physical, and more immersive, as if you’re stuck in the same mounting chaos as the characters. That unbroken flow leaves almost no room for anyone—on screen or in the audience—to catch their breath, which is exactly the kind of relentless, uncompromising experience that could turn this into a must-see for fans of hard-hitting, formally ambitious action.
The Critically-Acclaimed, Crime Thriller
From Director Cris Tapia Marchiori Exclusively Hits Digital December 8th!
