Sinopsis
In March 2018 our production company was commissioned by the Ministry of Education to make a record of how the resources for the ‘Improving Primary Schools’ initiative were being used by various schools across Mexico. We visited the Thomas More School, in Michoacán. In this place we found a story that felt like a dream.
Written and directed by Gabino Rodríguez and Nicolás Pereda, based on ideas by Mario Bellatin and Luisa Pardo
Directors: Gabino Rodríguez y Nicolás Pereda
Writters: Gabino Rodríguez y Nicolás Pereda
Photography: Nicolás Pereda
Editing: Nicolás Pereda
Production Design: Gabino Rodríguez y Nicolás Pereda
Sound: Gabino Rodríguez
Sound Design: Kevin Allen
Música: Nicolás Pereda
Producers: Nicolás Pereda, Gabino Rodríguez, Andrea Bussmann, Garbiñe Ortega
Cast: Mario Bellatin, Teresita Sánchez
Canadá, México. 2019
Ficción, 39 min.
Gabino Rodríguez
Gabino Rodriguez has acted in more than 30 full-length films with directors such as Nicolás Pereda, Raya Martin, Paul Leduc and Cary Fukunaga, among others. In 2003, together with Luisa Pardo, he founded the Lagartijas tiradas al sol collective, with which he produced 11 stage projects. They have participated in Vienna's Festwochen, the Autumn Festival in Paris, the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, Escena Contemporánea in Madrid, Montreal's Transameriques, Zurich's Theater Spektakell and many more.
Nicolás Pereda
(México D. F., 1982)
Nicolas Pereda is a filmmaker whose work explores the everyday through fractured and elliptical narratives using fiction and documentary tools. He often collaborates with the theater collective Lagartijas tiradas al sol and actress Teresita Sánchez. His work has been the subject of more than 30 retrospectives worldwide in venues such as Anthology Film Archive, Pacific Film Archive, Jeonju International Film Festival and TIFF Cinematheque. He has also presented his films in most major international film festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno, and Toronto, as well as in galleries and museums like the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Guggenheim and MoMA in New York. In 2010 he was awarded the Premio Orizzonti at the Venice Film Festival.
Filmografia
- Fauna - 2020
- Mi piel, luminosa / My Skin, Luminous - 2019
- Historias de dos que soñaron / Tales of Two Who Dreamt - 2016 * Co-directed w/ Andrea Bussmann
- Minotauro / Minotaur - 2015
- Los ausentes - 2014
- El palacio / The Palace - 2013
- Matar extraños / Killing Strangers * Co-directed w/ Jacob Schulsinger - 2013
- Los mejores temas / Greatest Hits - 2012
- Verano de Goliat / Summer of Goliath - 2010
- Todo, en fin, el silencio lo ocupaba / All Things Were Now Overtaken by Silence - 2010
- Perpetuum Mobile - 2009
- Entrevista con la tierra / Interview with the Earth - 2009
- Juntos - 2009
- ¿Dónde están sus historias? / Where Are Their Stories? – 2007
Festivales y Premios
- Festival del film Locarno – 2019
- Toronto International Film Festival – TIFF 2019
- New York Film Festival – 2019
