Festival de cine INSTAR

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Option Zero

Marcel Beltrán

Title: 

Option Zero

Synopsis:

Armed with only cell phones to bear witness to their journey, hundreds of Cubans documented their crossing from Colombia into Panama in hopes of entering the US. Most selling all their possessions to afford the trip, they crossed the treacherous Darién Gap jungle, enduring harsh conditions and eluding human and drug traffickers—only to land in a new kind of nightmare. Cuban director Marcel Beltrán has expertly pieced together over a hundred hours of cell phone footage to show their perilous journey and firsthand account.

 

 

Director: Marcel Beltrán

Year of production: 2020

Countries: Cuba, Brazil, Colombia

Running Time: 80’

Programming

Monday December 4th

18:30 (GMT+1)

Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB)

C/ de Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona, Spain

Thursday December 7

19:30h (GMT+1)

Maison de l’Amérique Latine

217 Bd Saint-Germain, 75007 Paris, France

Friday December 8

17:00h (GMT-3)

Cinemateca Brasileira

Largo Senador Raul Cardoso, 207 Vila Mariana / SP, Brazil.

Friday December 8

19:00h (GMT-4)

Florida International University (FIU)

Graham Center, Room 150, FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Miami, United States

Sunday December 10

21:00h (GMT-3)

Centro Cultural General San Martín

Sarmiento 1551, C1042 ABC, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Production: Marcel Beltrán, Paula Gastaud

Genre: Documentary

Language: Spanish

Production Companies: Mediocielo Films, Marinca Filmes, Inercia Películas

Photography: Marcel Beltrán

Screenplay: Marcel Beltrán

Editing: Marcel Beltrán

Sound Design: Homer Mora

 

Festival Selections: IDFA - Luminous, Locarno - Open Doors, Hot Docs, Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival (Best Documentary Feature), Cinémartinique (Best Documentary Feature), Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival - FIDBA (Best Film in Ibero-American Competition), MiradasDoc (Best Documentary Feature), Miami Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara, AFI Latin American Film Festival.

Director's bio:

Marcel Beltrán is a Cuban filmmaker currently living and working in São Paulo, Brazil. With film studies at EICTV (Cuba) and Concordia University (Canada), his films have screened internationally at festivals such as IDFA, Hot Docs, MoMA Doc Fortnight, DOC NYC, RIDM, FICG, Busan, DOK Leipzig, Málaga, among others. Founder of Mediocielo Films, professor at EICTV and Chavón | The School of Design, consultant for projects in development at international level and facilitator for sustainability in the arts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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