LAX Flight Path Sets Stage for Healing in ‘If I Go Will They Miss Me’ - Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group

LAX flight path sets stage for healing in ‘If I Go Will They Miss Me’ - Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group

By Leslie Ambriz Contributing Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Six years ago, jet fuel was dumped from the sky onto a working-class city near Los Angeles International Airport, spattering onto children at an elementary school. For writer and director Walter Thompson-Hernández, who grew up nearby, the incident sparked a coming-of-age story that grapples with the contradictions of life under the LAX flight path. His new film, “If I Go Will They Miss Me,”…

Review: If I Go Will They Miss Me

Walter Thompson-Hernández’s story of a father and son reconnecting is “motion picture poetry.”

In 'If I Go Will They Miss Me,' a family seeks healing under the LAX flight path

LOS ANGELES — Six years ago, jet fuel was dumped from the sky onto a working-class city near Los Angeles International Airport, spattering onto children at an elementary school. For writer and director Walter Thompson-Hernández, who grew up nearby, the…

Review | ‘If I Go Will They Miss Me’ is a mediative, imaginative family drama

“If I Go Will They Miss Me” released nationwide in theaters on Sept. 18. It’s the second film from director Walter Thompson-Hernández and covers a remarkable amount of thematic ground with a runtime of just 95 minutes. The film follows imaginative, middle-school aged Ant (Bodhi Dell) and his family in the months after his father...