Gonella Productions

LANGUAGE: Spanish | SUBTITLES: English

Genre: Drama
Running Time: 17:20
Year of production: 2012

SYNOPSIS

María (13) is an intersex girl (hermaphrodite) who is forced by her father to impersonate the Holly Virgin Mary at the procession of their town, because he thinks this is the only way she can "get fixed".

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

Production Company: Pinda Producciones
Film exports/World sales: Gonella Productions

MAIN CREDITS

Director: Mauricio López Fernández
Screenwriter: Mauricio López Fernández
Producer: Rebeca Gutiérrez Campos
Director of Photography: Cristóbal Portaluppi
Sound: Rodolfo Sánchez de Losada
Editing: Fabián Flores
Sound Editing: Rodolfo Sánchez de Losada

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Genre: Drama
Sub-genre: LGBTI
Language: Spanish
Country of origin: Chile
Year of production: 2012
Total running time: 17:20
Color type: Color
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Sound format: Stereo

AWARDS

2012 - Grand Jury Prize, Golden Scales Short Film Competition. Crime and Punishment Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey

FESTIVAL SELECTIONS

- Berlinale. Section: Shorts & Teddy Award
- Cinema Queer International Film Festival, Sweden
- Diva Film Festival, Chile
- Frameline, USA. Section: Con Tu Nombre - Worldly Women
- Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes del Uruguay
- MiMI GLBT Short Film Festival, Spain
- Rio Festival Gay de Cinema, Brasil
- Outfest, USA
- Sanfic, Chile
- Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens de São Paulo, Brasil
- Queer Lisboa, Portugal
- Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia, Chile. Section: Disidencias.
- Festival Side by Side, Russia
- Crime and Punishment Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
- Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Albuquerque, USA
- Chorts, Venezuela
- Festival de Cine Latinoamericano de La Plata, Argentina
- IV Festival de Cine Latinoamericano de Flandes Amberes. Competencia de cortometrajes chilenos
- Mezipatra Queer Film Festival, Czech Republic
- Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana, Cuba
- Mix Brasil
-Puerto Rico Queer Filmfest
-Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film & Video, China
-Pink Screens, Brusseles, Belgium
-Out in the Open, USA
-San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, USA
-Tampere Film Festival, Finland
- Tel Aviv GLBT International Film Fest, Israel
- KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, India