Country: Ecuador
Year: 2003
Duration: 87


Juan is a lower-class young man from Ecuador who dreams of emigrating from his country. He tries to find the money he needs to transform his dream into reality and ends up involved in criminal activity, pushed by desperation and the social, economic and moral collapse of his environment. His shyness and unrequited love, combined with the poverty of his family and the general corruption, all bring Juan to the point of committing crimes to get the money he needs to achieve his golden illusion: abandon Ecuador and try his luck on another continent.

Biography

film director

Victor Arregui

Victor Manuel Arregui (Guaranda, Ecuador, 1962) worked as director of photography for full-length and short films, documentaries and television series until 1988. He has been a photographer for UNICEF and has won international prizes in Germany and Cuba. He directed four documentaries for the Programa de Pequeños Donaciones of the UN, "Bosques Remanentes de la Cordillera Occidental de los Andes," plus other documentaries. In 1993 he wrote and directed the short film Tiling, followed by El Tropezón in 2000. He then founded the production house Bochinche, for which he directed his first full-length film, Fuera de Juego, in 2003. At the moment, Arregui is working on the screenplay of his next fiction film.

FILMOGRAFIA

Tiling (cm, 1993), El Tropezón (cm, 2000), Fuera de Juego (2003).

Cast

& Credits

Regia /Director: Víctor Manuel Arregui
Soggetto, sceneggiatura/Story, screenplay: Víctor Manuel Arregui, Luis Arregui
Fotografia/Director of photography: Germán Valverde
Scenografia/Set design: Coco Laso
Montaggio/Film editor: Carlos Carrillo
Musica/Musica: Fabián Velasco
Suono/Sound: Hans Sonero
Interpreti e personaggi/Cast and caracters: Manolo Santillán (Juan), Danny Bustamante (Jaime), Ximena Ganchala (Gioconda), Fabián Velasco (padre/father), Gerardo Pinto (Eduardo), Jimmy Pazmiño (zio/uncle), Silvia Vimos (María), Narcisa Ruales (madre/mother)
Produttore/Producer: Ilvaro Muriel
Produzione/Production: Bochinche Comunicación, Cine, Vídeo
Distribuzione, vendita all'estero/Distribution, foreign sales agent: Anahí Hoeneisen

TFF

prizes

CINEMAVVENIRE AWARD 2003

CinemAvvenire Award

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