Andrés Farías
Historia
Andrés Farías is a filmmaker from the Dominican Republic. In 2014 he won the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection Award for his video installation Honey Pot. In 2015, he was selected for the Emerging Leaders of the Americas Program (ELAP) for his research project on the representation of the Caribbean Women in Film. In 2018 he shot his first feature film "Candela" (Currently in Post) supported by the Sundance Institute and La Fabrique des cinémas du Monde of the French Institute.
Writer
The lives of three strangers in Santo Domingo, a girl from high society, a lonesome alcoholic cop and a drag queen cabaret performer; interwine on the eve of a hurricane fallowing the murder of a young poet and drug dealer
Director
The lives of three strangers in Santo Domingo, a girl from high society, a lonesome alcoholic cop and a drag queen cabaret performer; interwine on the eve of a hurricane fallowing the murder of a young poet and drug dealer
First Assistant Director
Una fábula delictiva ambiciosa ambientada en la República Dominicana, COCOTE de Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias sigue a Alberto, un jardinero de buen corazón que regresa a casa para asistir al funeral de su padre. Cuando descubre que una poderosa figura local es responsable de la muerte de su padre, Alberto se da cuenta de que su familia lo ha convocado para vengar el asesinato. Es un acto impensable, especialmente para él, un cristiano evangélico. Pero a medida que aumenta la presión, ve pocas salidas. Cuestiones de fe, tradición y honor a través de esta película electrizante, que, aparentemente a la velocidad del pensamiento mismo, salta entre formatos de película, colores y relaciones de aspecto, imaginando radicalmente una comunidad desgarrada por la violencia sin sentido.
Director
Bajo el acecho de un huracán que amenaza la ciudad, Lubrini, un showman habanero busca a su pareja desaparecida por las calles de La Habana. Poco a poco, la amenaza y la avaricia llevan a Lubrini a la deriva en una ciudad oscura y llena de desesperanza, entre unos personajes que encarnan en sí mismos las frustración, la apatía y el fatalismo caribeño.
Director
It’s special retrospective night in the Cine Caribe with CLAUDIA (50), the film’s actress. AVELINO (55), the projectionist, worked with her twenty years ago. He goes to meet Claudia in hopes to remember old times and as a present, brings with him a fragment of the film. Not remembering Avelino she takes him for an admirer and autographs the celluloid. Avelino’s boss fires him for stealing part of the film and Avelino realizes time has passed and he hasn’t achieved anything. Along with MARCEL (22), his disciple, he films and inserts himself into the movie to relive his past, but the projection ends and Avelino has to face reality.
Director
Romelia tells the melodrama of his own story of heartbreak through the interpretation of the main characters who were part of her love story. Soon fiction and reality collide, blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction.
Director
Honey Pot is a Video-installation that uses the image as a critical vehicle that puts into question the path we have chosen as a insular caribbean society in the twenty-first century, through the juxtaposition of fragmented images of the city, the countryside and the individual.
