Gonella Productions

LANGUAGES: Spanish | SUBTITLES: English

Genre:
Drama / Fantasy

Running Time:
7 minutes 43 seconds

Completion Date:
January 9, 2019

SYNOPSIS

Mateo, an 83-year old man living in a quiet village, retreats into silence, refusing to speak. However deep within, he sets out on a journey to find his beloved through intimate memories of what is real and what remains.

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

Production Company:
Trece Cielos
Apix Films

Film exports/World sales:
Gonella Productions

CAST
Rafael Montalvo, Tara Parra, Rosario Magallanes, Emilia González

MAIN CREDITS
Director: Javier Montes d’Arce
Screenwriter: Javier Montes d’Arce
Producer: Javier Montes d’Arce, Trece Cielos
Director of Photography: Francesca Vilchis
Sound: Pablo Betancourt
Editing: Javier Montes d’Arce
Sound Editing: Pablo Betancourt
Music Composer: Diego Betancourt

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Genre: Drama
Sub-genre: Fantasy
Language: Spanish
Country of origin: México
Year of production: 2019
Total running time: 7 minutes 43 seconds
Shooting format: 2K
Color type: Color
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1 (16.9)
Sound format: Stereo

AWARDS

Independent Shorts Awards: Best Fantasy Short
Indie Short Fest: Best Fantasy Short
Oaxaca Filmfest: Best Mexican Eye
New York Cinematography Awards: Best Production Design
Los Angeles Cinematography Awards: Best Director
Best Actor Award: Best Actor in a Sci-Fi/Fantasy film for Rafael Montalvo
Kesari Movie Awards (Shorts): Best Fantasy Film

FESTIVAL SELECTIONS

Los Angeles Lift-Off Film Festival
Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival
Transparent Film Fest, New York
Shorts México, Selección Oficial, México
Dumbo Film Festival
The Great Northern Creative Expo, Selección Oficial, United Kingdom
Canadian Cinematography Awards (CaCA)
Melkbos Short Film Festival, Cape Town
Festival de La Paz, México

BIOGRAPHY OF THE DIRECTOR

Javier Montes d’Arce is a Mexican film director and photographer based in New York City. As the founder of independent production house Trece Cielos (named after the thirteen skies in ̈Mexica ̈ mythology), Javier has directed, shot and post-produced a variety of video advertising campaigns for many global brands.

Javier worked at the Fulbright Hays Summer Abroad program in México for four consecutive years, where he captured program highlights as well as the beauty, history and culture of México. His work has been exhibited in Asia, Europe and around the United States at Film Festivals, he also has participated at Film Festivals as a member of the jury. While living in Baja California Sur Javier sat on the organizing committee for The Cabos International Film Festival.

For Javier the art of the image is an exercise in revealing the essence of the world around us by capturing a split-second of time and space to magically create a single snapshot. Either in film, video or photography, the greatest beauty of this exercise, he believes, is not only the final work but also the process it initiates, the memory of which remains and continues to bear fruit in the hearts of people.