La frontera

The Border

Guanajuato Short Film

Country: Mexico
Year: 2019
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Runtime: 15 mins.

Lucía and her husband Gustavo are a family of fishers living in the middle of the narco and security forces wars from Michoacán and Guanajuato. Living on an island in Lake Cuitzeo and being a fishing family in the middle of both states, they are used for drug trafficking while the roads are guarded. The normalization of this and the exploitation of her children prompts Lucía to make a decision that will end up facing one of her greatest fears.

DIRECTOR
Erika Oregel

Erika Oregel is a producer and filmmaker. Her first co-directed work El Noveno Horno (2015), won the Identidad y Pertenencia award at the Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF). In 2016, she directed her first fiction produced in 24 hours: Domingo, wich can be seen at FilminLatino and was proyected at more than 20 festivals around the world, including Cannes. She currently work as the production and content manager for the streaming platform, Platzi.

Director: Erika Oregel
Cast Vicky Araico Casas, Alberto Trujillo, Emiliano Valentín Aparicio, Leonardo Valentín Aparicio, Rafael Alcocer García
Cinematography: Juan Pablo Ramírez Ibáñez
Production: Dario Vargas Orozco
Screenplay: Erika Oregel
Editing: Ernesto Martínez Bucio
Music:
Sound: Ricardo Arteaga
Art Direction: Eddy Tostado Márquez
contacto: isabel.moncada@imcine.gob.mx



 Screenings

GIFF OnLine
disponible a partir del:18.9.2020
00:00 (Horario CST)
GIFF OnLine

Irapuato
21.9.2020
12:00 (Horario CST)
Cinemex Sala 10 Plaza Jacarandas

Guanajuato, Capital
26.9.2020
12:00 (Horario CST)
Cinemex Sala 7 Plaza Pozuelos