Andrés Crespo

Un precario estafador se aprovecha económicamente de una niña que dicen tiene visiones de la Virgen María y a quien muchos consideran milagrosa. Junto a los padres de la niña, generará un negocio grande y lucrativo.

While visiting family in Ecuador, a father and son bond over an unexpected death.

Rubén has three months to live or, probably, one year and a half with treatment. After a very complex process he decides to kill himself, before the cancer start showing symptoms. In "Translucido" we will be witnesses of his fate.

Dos familias disputan una tierra con un comerciante de tierras.

Dos familias disputan una tierra con un comerciante de tierras.

Dos familias disputan una tierra con un comerciante de tierras.

Seis latinos que viajan a Estados Unidos por diferentes razones, pronto se verán inmersos en las situaciones más ridículas y vergonzosas. Desde un chico inexperto que viaja como estudiante de intercambio, hasta una ingenua actriz que tratará de triunfar en Hollywood, cada uno de ellos vivirá peripecias inesperadas que los harán cuestionar si haber salido de su país fue la mejor decisión.

Fifteen years ago Pablo, Andres, Juan and Carolina were together for the last time. The days when their lives revolved around the old hideout were they grew up as teenagers are now over. It was during 1987 when the adventure that made them fell free ended abruptly. Two seconds changed everything forever. A story that starts as an apparently normal reunion of old friends evolves into the pursuit to rebuild their lives with the pieces of others that were broken.

Elena comes back to Ecuador to help her father overcome his illness. She spends most of her time between drugs and alcohol. While visiting her grandpa in the Andes Elena gets involved in the fight for water access in an indigenous community. She gradually understands that among family secrets, corruption and dark perversions commitment and beauty can emerge.

Inside a theater of a shopping center, several actors rehearse a new play. A recognized actor with delusions of greatness and vanity, faces his decay, making the rehearsals unbearable.

No Autumn, No Spring depicts modern day Guayaquil City and its invisible generation. Iván Mora Manzano’s punk ballad of rebellion, confrontation and the disenfranchised reveals the tribulations of young men and women who struggle deeply with the transition from adolescence to adulthood.

La vida de Paco Chávez es descuidada y encantadora, una vida de drogas ilícitas y de amores prohibidos. Lucía, su antiguo amor de colegio, está casada ahora con otro hombre. Una noche, Paco y su hermano menor Luis entran en casa de sus padres con la intención de robar un caballo de porcelana para empeñarlo y comprar más droga. Descubiertos y enfrentados por el padre, las consecuencias de aquel encuentro atormentarán a ambos hermanos para siempre.

Matal es un pueblo pesquero en la costa de Manabi donde Blanquito (Andrés Crespo) vive con su madre. En este pueblo todo es tranquilo y cotidiano hasta que un día aparecen en la playa paquetes llenos de cocaína. Blanquito y una colombiana, Lorna (María Cecilia Sánchez), deciden emprender un viaje a Guayaquil, donde ella conoce gente que pagará hasta cinco veces más por cada paquete. Blanquito no sabe que en los próximos días perderá la cabeza por amor y que la realidad lo llevarán a cambios importantes en su vida.

Is there an audience for Latin American movies? These are some of the questions posed by an Ecuadorian filmmaker whose latest movie was a commercial flop. He embarks on a query to find answers to his questions and relief for his despair. His research leads him to a giant contraband market in the port city of Guayaquil, where pirated movies from all over the world are sold for one dollar each. Here, he discovers a number of Ecuadorian low budget movies produced by amateurs, with titles he had never heard of before: from action packed productions to evangelical melodramas.

Is there an audience for Latin American movies? These are some of the questions posed by an Ecuadorian filmmaker whose latest movie was a commercial flop. He embarks on a query to find answers to his questions and relief for his despair. His research leads him to a giant contraband market in the port city of Guayaquil, where pirated movies from all over the world are sold for one dollar each. Here, he discovers a number of Ecuadorian low budget movies produced by amateurs, with titles he had never heard of before: from action packed productions to evangelical melodramas.

In an unknown first world airport the arrival of an ecuadorian flight is heard. The 'members of the European Union' passby migration, while the 'others', in the other line, wait. In the middle of the claims, a group of ecuadorians is arrested. They are taken to the Room, where they wait to be deported. Seems like everyone hides something, like PROMETEO the youn magician with his hands tied like a delinquent who has a 'magical' trunk as luggage. Time passes, a way of being, Ecuador happens in this waiting room. Seems like there is no possible exit. Meanwhile, a different but well-known way of life takes place. The only thing left as a promising way out is illusion.