As part of OCFF, we’re co-presenting the Texas premiere of NEON BULL, Brazilian writer-director Gabriel Mascaro’s second fiction feature that unfolds within the world of the vaquejada, a traditional exhibition sport in which cowboys try to pull bulls to the ground by their tails.

Iremar works as a cowboy who prepares oxen for Vaquejada, a traditional exhibition sport that involves pulling bulls to the ground by their tails. The truck carrying the oxen for the event serves as a makeshift home for him and his colleagues: Joe, your pen partner, and Galician – dancer, truck driver and mother of audacious Caca. Together they form an unlikely, improvised family.

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