Films
RELOCATION SEASON 2
This film series follows the journeys of younger Latin American artists in Canada as they explore and discuss the obstacles and stimuli that have found as Canadian residents maintaining their cultural roots.
Five interview subjects from various disciplines will be selected: writer, dancer, musician, visual artist, theater or film actor/director. This series of five shorts (10-minute).
The optimistic and inspiring tone, which reflects the career of the featured subjects. successes by examining the challenges each artist experienced along the way, including prejudice, condescension, language barriers.
Re:location season 2 brings the works and thoughts of Canadian Latin American artists toa broader audience, creates a feeling of pride and belonging to the new generations of Latin Americans in Canada and gives local Canadians a broader view of its constantly evolving society.
Director: Yoel Ortega – Javier Aparisi
Screenwriter: Yoel Ortega – Javier Aparisi – Ken Eisner
Producer: Victor Martinez AJa – Javier Munoz Venegas
Genre: Documentary – Year: 2024
I KNOW YOU ARE HERE
Caught up in the middle of the global pandemic, a young couple, Seiko and William try to remain connected to each other in these exceptional times. Seiko only wants to protect William, but William has an obligation to his community. The world needs people like him now more than ever. With the uncertainty of the situation, emotions run high.
Director: Javier Aparisi
Screenwriter: Javier Aparisi
Genre: Drama – Year: 2020 Short Film
THE MISSING PICTURE
Julia reminisces about the time she took her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, and her son to the beach for the first time. But that year’s family trip to the ocean was more special than ever since it was the first time for little Victor and the last one for grandma.
Festivals & Awards: 2020 Shortcircuit Pafici Rim Film Festival – Audience Choice Award
2019 CanadaShorts International Film Festival – Award of Commendation
Los Angeles Cinefest 2020 – Semi-Finalist | Official Selection: Toronto Lift-Off Film Festival 2020 | 62nd Rochester International Film Festival | L.A Shorts Awards – March Edition | 24th Zaragoza Film Festival | Rome Independent Prisma Awards | 3rd Nexgn International Short Film Festival
Director: Javier Aparisi
Screenwriter: Javier Aparisi
Genre: Drama – Year: 2019 Short Film
BELLA CIAO!
Vancouver’s most cosmopolitan street – Commercial Drive – is the setting for Carolyn Combs’ compassionate and heartfelt ensemble drama, a film about home and displacement, isolation and solidarity. Beginning at dawn, ending at dusk, the story hinges on Constanza (Carmen Aguirre), a Chilean refugee and activist whose relationship with her daughter is tested by health concerns they’d rather not confront.
Festivals & Awards: Whistler Film Festival 2018
Director: Carolyn Combs
Screenwriter: Michael Springate with Carolyn Combs and Jeremy Waller
Genre: Drama – Year: 2018
YA NO ES ANTES
A former couple, separated since their teen-age years by immigration, meet again in Cuba four decades later. This will be their opportunity to see how much they have changed, and ascertain whether the love promises they made to each other forty years earlier were fulfilled or not.
Festivals & Awards: 38 Festival of New Latinamerican Cinema of La Havana – People’s Choice Award | 18 Havana Film Festival NY |33 Chicago Latino Film Festival
Director: Lester Hamlet
Screenwriter: Lester Hamlet & Mijail Rodriguez
Genre: Drama – Year: 2016
CABALLOS
Robi is a lonely guy who is passionate about photography and torn between the love he feels for his “uncle” Salomón, who is ill with AIDS and to whom he owes his gratitude, and the love he feels for Galaxia, who decides to leave for France.
Festivals & Awards: World Cinema Amsterdam 2015 | Havana Film Festival 2015 | Muestra de Jóvenes Realizadores 2016 – Best feature film | Frameline40 – Official Selection
Director: Fabián Suárez
Screenwriter: Fabián Suárez
Genre: Drama – Year: 2015
STENWYKEN
One day, long ago a First Nations woman disappeared. Before she vanished her people were worried. She started having strange dreams and began sleepwalking, often finding herself deep the woods. She also had many visions. Visions of her great grandmother. Visions of being the forest itself. Visions of a creature she could not describe.
Festivals & Awards: 2013 Big Island Film Festival – Golden Honu Award Best Foreign Feature | 2013 Portobello Film Festival – Official Selection | 2013 Nevada Film Festival – Platinum Reel Award
Director: Adrian Patterson
Screenwriter: Jessica Hill, Megan Kinsley & Adrian Patterson
Genre: Thriller – Year: 2012
FABULA
In modern day Havana, where economic hardship is abundant, two young people see if love and personal aspiration have any place amongst a city defined by adversity.
Festivals & Awards: 33 Festival of New Latinamerican Cinema of La Havana – Third Coral Award Official Competition | 48 Chicago International Film Festival |16 Festival Internacional de Cine de Lima
Director: Lester Hamlet
Screenwriter: Lester Hamlet & Alejandro Brugués
Genre: Drama – Year: 2012