Gonella Productions

LANGUAGE: Spanish | SUBTITLES: English

Genre: Drama
Running Time: 25 minutes
Year of production: 2019

SYNOPSIS

Carlotta is a 13-year-old teenager who, during a melancholic family trip to the lake, experiences her body changes. Carlotta longs for her lost childhood and tries never to become a woman.

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

Production Company: Juana valiente Films
Film exports/World sales: Gonella Productions

CAST

Regina González
Ziara Alexa
Andrea de la Torre
Dalila Rivas
Neftalí Rojas
Emmanuel Islas

MAIN CREDITS

Director: Deniss Barreto
Screenwriter: Deniss Barreto
Producer: Libertad Salgado / Deniss Barreto
Director of Photography: Luis Lazalde
Sound: Pepe Reyes
Editing: Deniss Barreto
Sound Editing: Eduardo Villarreal
Music Composer:

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Genre: Drama
Sub-genre: Women, Adolescence
Language: Spanish
Country of origin: Mexico
Year of production: 2019
Total running time: 00:25:23
Shooting format: 4K
Aspect ratio: 1:85:1
Sound format: Stereo

BIOGRAPHY OF THE DIRECTOR

Deniss BARRETO (1990, Mexico) is a filmmaker, screenwriter and visual artist. She studied Visual Arts in Durango, Mexico and at the University of Murcia, in Spain. She also studied at the National Center of Arts. She has exhibited painting, photography and video-art in Mexico, Spain and Argentina. Her shortfilm The naked nape of Olivia has premiered at the 14o International Film Festival of Morelia (2016) and the 12o Shorts Mexico. Her medium length “Headless Ricardo” was exhibited at the Atlas section in the 10o International Film Festival UNAM and the Film Festival of Madrid (2020). Her work associates with her own concepts of femininity, melancholy and memory, and they are developed under an oniric and contemplative style.