
We Are Driven
The American import and tuner car scene gets a ground-level portrait here, built from interviews shot in garages, driveways, and parking lots rather than studios. The film moves from Chicago, where builder Darren Balico talks through his projects, to New Jersey, where Dave NJ walks through Club Loose drift events, and on to shops and photographers in New England, Atlanta, and Maryland. Cristian Loza discusses starting CANIBEAT and First Class Fitment, Ernesto Sarmiento Jr. talks about building the WEKFEST show series, and Jay Martinez covers Tuner Evolution, giving the film its throughline from small meetups to national events. Vinyl wrap specialists, body shops, and photographers fill in the trade side of the culture, describing the labor and money that go into a single build. Two years of filming across multiple cities are compressed into these conversations, and the emphasis stays on the people rather than the cars themselves: what draws someone into this lifestyle, what it costs them, and why they keep showing up to events.