Second chance to make a first impression: Film Movement heimlichs ‘Choking Man’

The DVD of the month club specializing in all things subtitle and indie will be resuscitating the life back into a much-adored film that first preemed back in 2006 during the Tribeca film festival and received a short window release in November of last year in NYC and the Laemmle in W.Hollywood. Screen Daily reports that Film Movement have picked up the domestic rights to Steve Barron’s film – a winner of Best Film Not Playing at a
Theatre Near You at the Gotham Awards.

It’s looking like the film may reappear for a traditional one week release before branching out onto DVD. Barron’s paints a portrait a morbidly shy Ecuadorian
dishwasher toiling away in a shabby Jamaica, Queens, New York diner. He works all day long in the shadow of the ever-present
Heimlich Maneuver instruction poster which hangs in the diner kitchen.

Barron has had a number of years of experience under his belt in the studio system and has he shared in an IONCINEMA.com interview, “..[I] decided to make it a low budget film. I am also really fond of a few New
York independent films like The Station Agent and Raising Victor Vargas. I loved those films
and I’ve always wanted to do something like that for one of my film; they’re
very simple and have only one central location”.