Sunscreen Film Festival 2009

Racing across Los Angeles in one, unwieldy day, documentary filmmakers Bella and Milo race from Beverly Hills to Watts and places in between to get Milo's brother Leo from jail to rehab before 8pm, or Leo goes to prison for three years.A story inspired by true events, the trio documents their trip from a suburban police station in Calabasas through mansions in Beverly Hills, East LA chop-shops, rural wastelands, and housing projects in Watts as they attempt to raise the $5,000 required to get Leo into the rehab clinic.Along the way they encounter dozens of colorful characters, each with their own anomalous perspective on Leo's larger than life personality and style, and each with their own excuse for why they cannot help out. In the end, it may take a drug deal to get the necessary funds for rehab.“Ruspoli has succeeded in creating a film that not only compliments Los Angeles’ multi-faceted landscape, but meditates on it. While Fix is everything one would hope - a frenetic, Odyssey-like journey through an underbelly of drug culture and addiction, it’s when the film reaches moments of silence that its true voice speaks clear, deeply exploring notions of family, loss, and ultimately redemption. “- Daniel Casey, Programmer