NORFOLK, Va. — Movie director and Virginia Beach native Derrick Borte just released his latest film about a Los Angeles club owner named Manko Kapak.
“An aging Albanian club owner who is faced with the world moving past him a little bit. Its time for him to move on, maybe for his health, well being,” said Borte.
In The Get Out, Russell Crowe’s character tries to sell the club. But a series people and events get in the way.
“You’ve got people in kind of ridiculous situations that they put themselves in and continue to make bad choices to make it even worse. But the stakes are real,” Borte explains.
This is the Cox High and Old Dominion graduate’s seventh feature film.
“Its kind of a neo-noir crime film but it’s actually funny,” he says with a smile.
And this is the second time working with the Gladiator actor.
“We really clicked on Unhinged and liked working with each other. And even back then, while it was a much different tone, I realized how funny he was,” Borte said.
Even though the film is set in Los Angeles, they shot in Australia because the tax incentives were better down under.
Borte and his family live in Virginia Beach full-time. He actually shot a film here a few years ago starring comedian Jim Gaffigan.
He says Hampton Roads is a great place to shoot movies but he says Virginia doesn’t have the tax incentives that other states offer.
“There’s really great production that does happen here already it just would be a lot easier and happen a lot more frequently if there were a little more support politically for it,”
The Get Out is now streaming on most major platforms.
Movie director Derrick Borte knows how to keep an audience on the edge of their seats, and he is ‘Positively Hampton Roads.”
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