Year: 2013
Duration: 95'
On the outskirts of Caracas, nine-year-old Junior lives with his young mother Marta, an unemployed widow, in a huge apartment complex, a mixture of desperation and cement. Theirs is anything but a loving relationship: Marta is disturbed by her son’s obsession with his looks; Junior only wants to straighten his hair, which is frizzy and messy, so he can look good in the class photo. Junior’s affectations are intolerable to Marta, who is involved in a daily struggle for survival, and she even accuses her son of sexual ambiguity. In a crescendo of domination and misunderstandings, Junior finds himself painfully dealing with his mother’s frustrations, whose own vulnerability has made her blind to his problems.
Biography
film director
Mariana Rondón
Mariana Rondón (Venezuela) is a director, screenwriter and visual artists. She studied animation in Paris and received her degree from the EICTV Film School of Cuba. She debuted in feature films with A la medianoche y media (2000), and then directed Lo que se hereda no se hurta (2007), a made-for-TV movie produced in Mexico; and Postales de Leningrado (2007), for which she received various awards at numerous international festivals. In the field of the plastic arts, she has participated at many international exhibits with the robotic installation You Came with the Breeze.
FILMOGRAFIA
A la medianoche y media (2000), Lo que se hereda no se hurta (tv, 2007), Postales de Leningrado (2007), Pelo malo (2013).
Declaration
film director
“I’m interested in talking about helpless characters, who lack resources for emotional survival. I started by questioning a mother’s love. Is it a matter of instinct or is it an unconditional duty? Emotion is not duty.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, SCENEGGIATURA
Mariana Rondón
FOTOGRAFIA
Micaela Cajahuaringa
MONTAGGIO, PRODUTTORE
Marité Ugás
SCENOGRAFIA
Matías Tikas
MUSICA
Camilo Froideval
SUONO
Lena Esquenazi
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Samuel Lange (Junior), Samantha Castillo (Marta)
PRODUZIONE
Sudaca Films
COPRODUZIONE
Imagen Latina, Hanfgarn & Ufer Filmproduktion, La Sociedad Post, Artefactos S.F, José Ibáñez
CONTATTI
FigaFilms
Sandro Fiorin
Tel:+1 323 258 52 41
sandro@figafilms.com
www.figafilms.com
Mariana Rondón
FOTOGRAFIA
Micaela Cajahuaringa
MONTAGGIO, PRODUTTORE
Marité Ugás
SCENOGRAFIA
Matías Tikas
MUSICA
Camilo Froideval
SUONO
Lena Esquenazi
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Samuel Lange (Junior), Samantha Castillo (Marta)
PRODUZIONE
Sudaca Films
COPRODUZIONE
Imagen Latina, Hanfgarn & Ufer Filmproduktion, La Sociedad Post, Artefactos S.F, José Ibáñez
CONTATTI
FigaFilms
Sandro Fiorin
Tel:+1 323 258 52 41
sandro@figafilms.com
www.figafilms.com
TFF
prizes
