South of Pico is a 2007 drama film written and directed by Ernst Gossner set in Los Angeles.
Plot In present-day Los Angeles, a chauffeur, a waitress, a doctor and a young boy each deal with life’s daily challenges. They find themselves at the scene of an accident the moment it happens. This becomes a defining moment in their lives.
One story is a chauffeur named Robert Spencer that assigned to drive a bride Angela (Christina Hendricks) to a wedding. He eyes her in back seat through the rear view mirror while she is pulling up her garter belt. She demands to stop for cigarettes at a local retail store. When he returns she holds him and tells him to kiss her and they have sex at the back of the limousine.
Cast Kip Pardue as Robert Spencer Henry Simmons as Dr. Walter Chambers Gina Torres as Carla Silva Soren Fulton as Patrick Wise Christina Hendricks as Angela Jimmy Bennett as Mark Weston Giovanni Lopes as Jorge Paul Hipp as Comma Car'ynn Sims as Francine Gabrielle Christian as Astrid
Release The film premiered at the American Black Film Festival in October 2007.
Awards American Black Film Festival - 2007, Grand Jury Award - Best Picture American Black Film Festival - 2007, Grand Jury Award - Best Actor for Henry Simmons American Black Film Festival - 2007, Red Star Award for Originality, Innovation and Vision for Ernst Gossner Pan African Film Festival - 2008, First Feature Competition - Best Director Drehbuchverband Austria - 2008, Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award"Thomas-Pluch Script Prize 2009". diagonale.at (mentions Ernst Gossner) International Innsbruck Film Festival - 2008, Audience Award International Beijing Film Festival - 2008, Best Picture
Production South of Pico was shot in various locations around Los Angeles. The story is inspired by a fatal road rage incident in Chicago 2003; a similar case happened in 2007 in Austin, Texas.
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