A Kiltro DVD In October?

Hey! I’m the guy who programmed Kiltro on the festival mentioned below (more on that further down)! I gave my best shot on translating the article. Sorry about that.
"Kiltro": DVD and International Festivals are Its Next Battles
VALDIVIA.- The case of “Kiltro” is rare. While it was screening, lots of people didn’t want to watch it because of the prejudice martial arts movies tend to generate, but those who dared to left the movie pleasantly surprised by its quality and mise-en scène.

For that, it wasn’t a surprise that the movie was chosen to complete the line-up of national films in competition on the Valvidia Cine Festival.

[Kiltro’s] Director Ernesto Díaz is one of the invited and tells that the audiences’ reaction raised somewhat similar feelings: “It wasn’t surprise, but I was very pleased, because it was a risky bet and I was a little bit afraid of making something ridiculous with such a genre production, that’s always looked down upon.”

His fear or uncertainty of the audience’s reception were never an obstacle to throw the project away: “When someone really wants to do something, when you’ve got conviction about something, you don’t question yourself, you just go for it and move ahead, I never thought about what people are gonna say or how am I gonna manage.”

His aprehensions were born from somewhere else: “You give all of yourself, but your mind is always working, for better or worse, sometimes you think that you’ll do just great, but I always had this doubt that people wouldn’t see beyond.”

He was worried that the audience couldn’t appreciate: “the fact there was a point of view behind the camera, that it wasn’t just a martial arts flick, that it was a studio on the background, a play-on with the clichés.”

International Fights and DVD

Kiltro’s following struggles are already set: around october should be released the movie’s DVD, which is currently under editing and will feature, among other extras, the fight rehearsals between the story’s characters.

His other focus will be film festivals that belong into the specialty showcases for this sort of production, such as the one from Belo Horizonte, where it’s being screened at this moment.

[Note from the responsible for this piss-poor translation: “Kiltro” was selected for the Dark Matinée program into the Indie 2006 – World Film Festival, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, alongside movies like The Descent, Naisu No Mori, The Wayward Cloud, Silentman, The Shutka Book of Records, etc. It was one of the Festival’s Pick movies and it screened to great success – so everybody should line it up on your festivals as well. Because I’m telling you to.]

A list that could be extended if his requests to integrate other festivals are accepted.

Mafia boss

Ernesto Díaz’ future, for now, is "Kiltro", but he’s already working on three new screenplays.

"I’m not attached to any genre, everything interests me, but I always had this inclination for gangster movies, martial arts movies and thrillers and horror movies like Hitchcock, Lynch", he comments.

For now he’s enjoying the door his martial arts adventure has opened so new directors can dare to create new movies of this genre.

Thank you Todd and krivochein. Let's just hope it has subs on it.

Doubt it, Most LatinMAmerican new release dvds dont have subs.

any news on the dvd release of this yet?

Todd, do you know if you if this will be getting a american dvd release?