Gonella Productions

LANGUAGES: Spanish | SUBTITLES: English

Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 14 minutes and 46 seconds
Year of production: 2016

SYNOPSIS

The Guadalupe dam watershed, located at the northeast of Mexico City, is a region of great biodiversity. It's a source of oxygen, drinking water, wood, food, medicinal plants and cultural elements for the inhabitants of the Valleys of Mexico and Toluca. While an important home for the Otomí ethnic group, the watershed also shelters a peculiar species: the mountain axolotl (Ambystoma altamirani), a micro-endemic, endangered amphibian, unique in the world.

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

Production Company: Kinomorfosis
Film exports/World sales: Adrián Arce

CAST

Dr. Agustin Eusebio Vázquez - President / Productores Forestales Otomíes del Noroeste del
Valle de México S.P.R. de R.L.
Dr. Víctor Ávila Akerberg - Biologist Specialized in Forest Conservation UAEMex-UNAM.
Arturo Cruz Buitrón - Inhabitant of Tlazala, Municipality of Isidro Fabela.
Inés Rosas Chávez - Inhabitant of Tlazala, Municipality of Isidro Fabela.
Lecturer Florentino Morales Solís - President / Trabajando Juntos por el Desarrollo de
Jilotzingo A.C.
Luis Osnaya Vargas - Inhabitant of Tlazala, Municipality of Isidro Fabela.

MAIN CREDITS

Director: Adrián Arce
Screenwriter: Adrián Arce
Producer: Adrián Arce
Director of Photography: Adrián Arce & Alejandro Cons
Sound: Adrián Arce & Alejandro Cons
Editing: Adrián Arce
Sound Editing: Alejandro Cons & Adrián Arce
Music Composer: Alejandro Cons

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Genre: Documentary
Sub-genre: Environmental / Nature
Language: Spanish
Country of origin: Mexico
Year of production: 2016
Total running time: 14 minutes, 46 seconds
Shooting format: 2.5K Digital Video
Color type: Color
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Sound format: Stereo

AWARDS

• BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY OF A FOREIGN FILM. Festival International de Film
Etnografic Zlatna. 19th-21st August 2016. Zlatna, Romania.
• BEST FILM ENVIRONMENTAL/ECOLOGY CATEGORY. CTLPDX International
Environmental Film Festival. September the 30th 2016. Portland, United States.
• HONORABLE MENTION DOCUMENTARY CATEGORY. CTLPDX International
Environmental Film Festival. September the 30th 2016. Portland, United States.
• HONORABLE MENTION EDUCATIONAL CATEGORY. CTLPDX International
Environmental Film Festival. September the 30th 2016. Portland, United States.
• THIRD PLACE IN THE SHORTS CATEGORY. Films for the Forest. Austin, United
States.
• BEST FOREIGN SHORT ECODOCUMENTARY – RUNNER UP. tiNai Ecofilm
Festival. 2017. Jaipur, India.
• MENTION OF THE JURY. Shortfilm Contest of the Waterlat-GOBACIT Network.
2017. San Jose, Costa Rica.
• BEST DOCUMENTARY. Festival de Cine del Sur. Pereira, Colombia.