Film description
Minute 200
Direction: Frank Benitez.Countries: Colombia.
Year: 2011.
Genre: Fiction.
Duration: 18 min.
Cast
Producers: Angelica Clavijo. Cast: Mercedes Menez, José Ruiz.
Synopsis
Orfa is an elderly woman who lives alone in her home village. One day she receives a package from her only son who she hasn’t seen in a long time. Inside are a cell phone and a letter in which her son writes that he can’t visit her and she’ll have to survive renting the phone for profit. Orfa resigns herself to wait for death, convinced that it will come knocking on her door. At the same time, her phone minutes run out, loosing her last chance for company.
Awards
- Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival. Brazil, 2011.
- Milano Film Festival. Italy, 2011.
- Secuence Court-Metrage. France, 2011.
- Emmentaler Filmtage. Switzerland, 2011.
Director's Bio
Frank Benitez graduated from the Escuela de Cine de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 2005. He worked as a director in TV and film production companies. He also wrote various independent shorts since 2002 such as: Imaginario (2003), Xpectattiva (Winner of In Vitro Visual, 2005) and Hierbas del ayer (2008). Currently he is professor of audiovisual production in the Universidad Externado de Colombia and also he is developing his first fiction feature-length film Pasado por agua.
Screening schedule
| April, 17th at 6:45 PM | Quad Cinema |
HFFNY news
- The 13th annual Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY) runs April 12-20 with more than 40 highly anticipated and influential films from and about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinos in the U.S. including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Spain, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and the U.S. More
- 19 films will be competing to receive the third Havana Star Prize for Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay, as <a href=http://www.clreplicas.co.uk/>Christian Louboutin outlet</a> well as the second Havana Star Prize for Best Documentary, which will be awarded on April 20th at the Closing Night ceremony. More
- Proud to pay tribute to those influential figures of the Latin American cinema, the festival honors Cuban actress Eslinda Nuñez. For more than 40 years, Eslinda has participated in some of the most important films made in Cuba. More
- HFFNY is also <a href=\"http://www.leseditionsdeminuit.fr/mulberry.php\">Mulberry</a> honoring one of the masters of the art of photography, <a href=\"http://www.louboutinusoutlet.com/\">Christian Louboutin outlet</a> cinematographer Raul Perez Ureta.
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