Film Festival

Magic Play
August 14, 2019 • 0 Comment

A shy boy wizard-in-training is forced into a play date with a witch girl who is unpredictable with her magic.

Directed by Natasha Cánepa, a recent SCAD alumni possessing a BFA in Animation. Cánepa focuses on Character Animation with emphasis on timing and personalized acting. Among this, she has worked in several positions during production mainly pre-production, motion media, compositing and sound design. Her expansive multi set of skills has allowed her to work as a collaborator in multiple projects and gave her the opportunity to lead her own productions mainly “Ready to Fight” and “Magic Play”, both of which have been recognized in multiple festivals including Starz Short Film Competition and Student Production Awards by the Southeast Emmys.

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La Lección (The Lesson)
August 14, 2019 • 0 Comment

Javier is a prestigious executive with a life full of luxury and money. He takes decisions that contribute to poverty and exploitation of families that that seem numbers for him. Everything will change when Oscar appears and give him a lesson he will never forget.

Directed by Hugo Gómez, who has forged his career as crew member in different audiovisual productions. After directing his first short film in 35 mm. (The Postman, 2005), began to work as production crew on different commercial shootings until he joined Spanish tv series El Comisario, between years 2006 and 2009. While, in parallel, he participated on different TV movies like La Piel Azul (2009) or Yo soy el solitario (2008) as assistant director. Repeating on Valencian series L’alqueria Blanca, as well as different web series. 

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El Cuarto Reino
August 13, 2019 • 0 Comment

In a redemption center on the outskirts of New York, undocumented illegal aliens and underdogs have a shared disappointment in the American Dream. Responding to this false promise, Ana, Walter, Eugene, Pierre and René, will find in each other’s company, answers to cosmic mysteries and existential questions that make us all human. Dreams don’t die if the journey continues, regardless of origins and destinations.

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Abstinence
August 13, 2019 • 0 Comment

Oscar is an addict, that’s why he decides to go to a center of self help under the pressure of his ex-wife and friends. He is surprised by the existence of such a place, being that he believed to be the only one with this problem. There he meets Dr Flowers, the person in charge of this peculiar center and Alejandro, another person with the same problem.

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Northern Star
August 13, 2019 • 0 Comment

A woman’s chance encounter with her former band’s manager leads to a night of rekindled memories and trauma.

Directed by Jason Cortez,  a Latino filmmaker from Virginia who’s been directing and writing short films for the past 5 years. He’s worked on various other short films and directed his own that have gone on to numerous festivals around the country. He has been inspired by the works of David Fincher, Alfonso Cuaron, Nicholas Winding Refn, and Hirokazu Kore-eda. He hopes to shoot a Spanish and English language feature within the next few years.

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Exit Point
August 7, 2019 • 0 Comment

A smalltime mobster’s no-hassle heist turns out to be the money and drugs of a rival leader. 22-year-old Ian Martinez escapes the United States in an attempt to move his life forward through higher education but is lured into unlawful activity by predatory gang members. The entry point begins when a group of gangsters who befriend Ian take full advantage of him knowing he’s in unfamiliar territory.

Set in the heart of Puerto Rico, Ian enrolls in university with the support of his uncle and begins his new life away from his past misadventures on the mainland. While attempting to discover his Puerto Rican roots and a future filled with possibilities in the Caribbean, Ian dreams of starting his own business but realizes he will need an investment or at least a partner. Out one fateful night Ian becomes friends with a circle of hoodlums and is persuaded to get involved in a no-hassle heist for a local mobster. Ian is suddenly confronted with having to prove himself on the streets or be hunted. After robbing the wrong boss, Ian’s friends, who work for both bosses, turn on him and unleash the bloody pursuit. Frantically scheming to revenge the theft, local boss Muarto Gonzales, orders a hitman, The Snake, to find Ian and send a message to his rival kingpin.

The division between a life of opportunity and that of quick riches disappears as the temptation to score big by selling guns and drugs leaves his life in disarray. Confined to the spiraling chaos of warring brotherhoods, Ian frantically seeks that point of his higher self to determine where he will find his Exit Point.

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LOVE CECY
August 7, 2019 • 0 Comment

Ripped from the headlines, Love Cecy takes audiences back to the cholo, free-style culture of 1990s Richmond, California as it retells the story of 15 year old Cecilia Rios. The film follows Rios’ promising beginnings- striving to become a lawyer while keeping her cholo boyfriend off the streets- to its tragic end on March 14, 1994, when her brutal murder was chronicled by newspapers across the country.

Directed by Jay Lopez, born to a family of immigrants of Honduran descent in the Mission District of San Francisco but grew up in Richmond CA. A man of many talents, he has starred in theatre productions such as Grease, Raisin In The Sun, High School Musical 2: Live On Stage before transitioning to films and televisions, where he has been in a wide variety of roles, appearing in I (Almost) Got Away With It, Mercury Rules, Trapped, The Invisible City, and many more, his driven passion in acting reflected in his writing and directing as well SIN PADRE is Jay’s first film as a writer and director where it is based on true events of his life. He want to get to the humanity of Cecilia Rios story and make a film that everyone, no matter your race, or age, could relate to.

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EXTRANJERO (FOREIGN)
August 7, 2019 • 0 Comment

Elisabete (Cecilia Retamoza) was born in Mexico, but spent her childhood with her parents on the idyllic beach of Tabatinga, in the northeast of Brazil. Removed from other children, Daniela (Bruna Belmont) was her only friend. Because of a mysterious trauma, Elisabete abandoned her home and has never settled in one place since. Elisabete, now thirty, yearns for a sense of identity. She feels uncomfortable in her own skin, a foreigner in her own world.

Directed by Edson Lemos Akatoy. Akatoy (João Pessoa, Brazil) holds a degree in Cinema and Audiovisual from the Federal University of Paraíba (Brazil, 2017). During the course, he made four short films and one feature film.

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Bellatrix
August 7, 2019 • 0 Comment

Bellatrix is ​​the name of a constellation star of Orion and means Warrior. Laura (Elisa Heidrich) begins to wonder about the political positions she has seen on TV. From there, she goes to researchers and people working the gender issue to discuss and better understand where the social differences between the sexes we observe daily. Inside her mind, Laura finds her Bellatrix version.

Directed by Lucas Costanzi, a Brazilian journalist specializing in documentaries, certified by the ESEC-École Supérieure d’Études Cinématographiques, Paris. Director of a series of reports around the world for a brazilian television Conexão 360º, director of the movie Tormenta, which went through the Festival de Cabo Verde, 43rd Festival of Gramado and Osarkshorts. Bellatrix is ​​his second movie.

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A Life Stolen
July 31, 2019 • 0 Comment

The story of a mother and a daughter who leave their home in Guatemala and arrive to the U.S but are separated at the border. The mother of the girl struggles to find ways to be reunited with her daughter.

Directed by  Lisa S. Cerda Fernandez. Born in Colorado, USA from two Latino immigrant parents. She has lived most of her life in Valparaiso, Chile her father’s hometown and visits Peru to visit her mother’s side of the family.

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