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FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
POR FABIANA
A 41-year-old dairy farm worker in upstate New York, relies on toughness, solitude, and mistrust to survive long shifts of work. Then, a 21-year-old single mother forces her to reexamine what is important to her.
POR FABIANA
Una trabajadora de una granja lechera de 41 años, en el norte del estado de Nueva York, se vale de su fortaleza, la soledad y la desconfianza para sobrevivir a los largos turnos de trabajo. Entonces, una madre soltera de 21 años la obliga a replantearse qué es lo que realmente le importa.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Izabel Acevedo
Izabel Acevedo is a Guatemalan filmmaker and editor who divides her creative life among New York, Guatemala City, and Mexico City. She studied Cinematography at Mexico’s renowned Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC), completed a postgraduate program in Screenwriting at ESCAC in Barcelona, and is finishing an MFA in Film at The City College of New York—where her thesis short Por Fabiana recently earned a National Board of Review Student Grant.
Acevedo’s first cycle of shorts quickly revealed a distinctive voice: Blue Balloon (2010) traveled from Latin America to Asia, while To Put Together a Helicopter (2012) captured the Best Fiction Short at the Morelia International Film Festival and the Grand Prix at Clermont‑Ferrand before screening at Rotterdam, Cannes Critics’ Week, and MoMA’s New Directors/New Films, and securing an Ariel nomination.
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