It would be another six years before Benavides'
next cinematic inspiration would materialize into his 2003 production
of "None Left Standing". Another urban drama with slight
satirical accents, "None Left Standing" uses its fanatical
movie-driven teen characters to exploit the hypocrisy of modern
pop-culture and its pervasive influence on impressionable and disillusioned
youth.
Shown
across 7 screens throughout AMC Theatres in Arizona, "None
Left Standing" grossed over $5,000 in a single theatre, as
it went on to receive the Aegis Award for outstanding achievement
in film production, and has received world wide distribution from
Maxim Media Marketing. Prompting keen interest from three Phoenix
film investors, "None Left Standing" left Benavides with
his first competent budget to once again write… direct….
and produce.
Following the successful completion and public reception of his
first two features, Benavides has skillfully proven his capacity
for cinematic versatility in his latest work, "To Charlie,
with Love". Moving away from previously ventured themes of
serious juvenile conflict amidst socially abrasive worlds, Benavides
examines even darker, more underlying dimensions of the human condition
in "To Charlie, with Love".
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