Synopsis

Hedgar is unemployed. Unable to make ends meet, he sells everything he has, including the child his wife is still carrying.

Themes : Economics Family
Keywords : Money Precarity
Shooting place : Bogota
Shooting format : DV CAM

Rewards, festivals and diffusions

Festival Jeunes Réalisateurs

Place : Strasbourg (France)
Date : 2009

Festival Terres d'Ailleurs

Place : Machecoul (France)
Date : 2009

Regards sur l'immigration

Place : Cité Nationale de l'Histoire de l'Immigration (Paris)
Date : 2008

Base Film Festival

Place : Barcelone (Spain)
Date : 2004

Les Inattendus

Place : Lyon (France)
Date : 2004

Rencontres Documentaires

Place : Guadeloupe
Date : 2003

Le Réel en vue

Place : Thionville (France)
Date : 2003

Festival de Caracas

Place : Venezuela
Date : 2002

Festival de Cinéma

Place : Douarnenez (France)
Date : 2002

Festival Latino

Place : Toronto (Canada)
Date : 2002

International Documentary Festival

Place : Santiago (Chile)
Date : 2002

Cinéma du Réel, Paris (75), Doclands, Dublin (Irlande), Les Écrans Documentaires

Place : Arcueil (France)
Date : 2001

Encontros Internacionais De Cinema Documental

Place : Odivelas (Portugal)
Date : 2001

Regards sur les Cinémas d'Amérique Latine

Place : Genève (Switzerland)
Date : 2001

Traces de Vies

Place : Clermont-Ferrand (France)
Date : 2001

Icarus Films

Musée du Quai Branly

Place : Paris (France)

Festival Locombia

Place : Toulouse (France)
Date : 2018

Hemel Atehortua

Director

Hemel Atehortua started filmmaking during the workshop "Comunas Películas" related to the making of Catalina Villar's film "Diario en Medellín" (Diary of Medellin). Then, he participated in Varan's workshops in Bogota in 2000 and 2002. During these trainings, he directed "No hay cama pa' tanta gente", selected in numerous international film festivals. He graduated in social communication, journalism section at Medellin University, Antioquia. Since then, he works as a TV director for several local and national channels. He also worked as an editor for TV documentary or fiction series. He has been assistant-director on "La Nueva Medellin", directed by Catalina Villar. He's currently directing a documentary: "Alaska" and works as researcher and scriptwriter for the series "Tus Tierras, tus derechos" (Your land, your rights) for the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture as part of the peace agreements.

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