The Neon People

Genre: Documentary

Language: English

Subtitles: French

Format: HD 2.39:1

Sound: 5.1.

Duration: 124′

Countries: France (Kidam), Belgium (Tarantula)

Year : 2024

SYNOPSIS

Under the famous Las Vegas Strip, thousands of homeless people live in a vast network of dark, unsanitary tunnels. The Neon People focus on a handful of them, describing their living conditions. But also their hopes.

CREDITS

Script and director : Jean-Baptiste Thoret

Image : Colin Lévêque

Sound : Julien Brossier

Editing : Sébastien De Sainte Croix
Sound editing : Marc Bastien
Sound mix : Antonin Dalmasso
Color grading : Emmanuel Fortin
Postproduction : François Nabos

Original music : Jean-Baptiste Jeannot

FESTIVALS

DIRECTOR

Jean-Baptiste Thoret, born in 1969, is a French film historian, critic and director.

A specialist in American cinema, particularly New Hollywood and Italian cinema of the 1970s, he is the author of some fifteen books on cinema, including “American cinema of the 1970s” and Michael “Mann, mirages of the contemporary”. In 2016, he decided to end his work as a film critic and turn to directing. He has made several documentaries on cinema, including his first feature film, We Blew It, in 2017, “Dario Argento: Sighs in a Distant Corridor” in 2019, and “Michael Cimino, An American Mirage” in 2022. In 2024, he returns to present the population living under Las Vegas, “Neon People”, which will have its world premiere at Fema in La Rochelle.