The situation gets complicated when Santiago drowns by accident at sea. Santiago’s ghost returns and asks Miguel to find his body and to bury him, according to the town’s rituals so his soul can rest in peace. Miguel has to choose: if he accepts, he will reveal his relationship with Santiago, only the people closest to the dead ones can perform the ritual, and he will ruin his marriage and his reputation forever. If he doesn’t, he will sentence his lover to eternal angst.

Miguel tries by all the means to conceal the situation, but the town’s obsession with Santiago’s disappearance, Mariela’s suspicions, which grow more certain, and the insistence of Santiago’s ghost to rest in peace, make him face his own fears and prejudices and to show to everyone around him, but especially to himself, that he is an honorable man and a man who keeps his word, even if that means loosing everything he has achieved.

Awards:

Fondo NRW Filmstiftung: Germany
Fundación Carolina: Spain, Madrid
Highlight Talent Project Berlinale: Germany, Berlin
Honorable Mention – Film Script Contest of the Festival de Cine de La Habana
Film Script Competition OUTFEST

Project Info:

Director: Javier Fuentes
Writer: Javier Fuentes
Producers: Rodrigo Guerrero - DYNAMO (Colombia); Ole Landsjöaasen – NEUECAMEOFILM (Germany); Javier Fuentes - El CALVO FILMS (Peru); Emilie Georges - LA CINÉFACTURE (France).
Cast: Manolo Cardona, Tatiana Astengo, Cristian Mercado
Principal Photography: Octubre - Diciembre 2008
Genre: Gay Drama
Countries: Colombia - Perú - Alemania - Francia

Currently works with dynamo Capital as Head of Content Sourcing, that is, looking for projects in development (across Latin-America, Spain and the US) with potential to be chosen by dynamo Capital for financing and production. His sourcing tasks include attending International Film Festivals to network and to search for film projects. Recently attended fests include: New York Film Festival 2007; Hamptons Film Festival 2007; Festival Iberoamericano de Cine de Huelva 2007 (Spain); International Documentary Film Festival 2005 (IDFA Amsterdam); Guadalajara Film Festival 2008 (Mexico).

In early 2007 he worked as Production Coordinator for the German-Colombian feature “Doctor Aleman” (German Doctor), shot in Colombia between April and June 2007, produced by the German company 2 Pilots Film. “German Doctor” will be released in German theaters in 2008.

His training in filmmaking began in 1999 with a scholarship by the IBERMEDIA program (based in Spain) to course the production seminar at the Cuban Film School. In 2004-2005 he coursed a Master in Communication at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (Netherlands), with emphasis on the Business Structure of International Film Industries. UvA’s international students elected him twice as Student Representative. He has a degree in Economics (1999) from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia).

Other work experiences include management positions at Advertising and Marketing companies like BBDO-OMD, and DDB, in Colombia. Tasks at these multinationals included supervising advertising investments for local and international clients, and developing campaigns and media strategies for brands like LG Electronics, Cotton USA, MARS Inc (M&M’s), and Postobon (Colombia’s largest non-alcoholic beverages company). These clients had aggregate yearly ad budgets of US$6 Million. In 2005 – 2006 he worked at RSVP Personals Europe, a social networking website based in Amsterdam - Netherlands, where he gained experience in online advertising, implementing and supervising campaigns on platforms like Google Adwords, Yahoo Overture, MSN, and independent online content platforms, with a yearly budget of Euro 1.2 Million.

An excellent writer, Carlos has published articles on Film, Literature and Marketing in Colombian and Dutch publications like Revista Número, Revista Cambio, Revista P&M (the Colombian Marketing Magazine), The Amsterdam Weekly and Universiteit van Amsterdam’s The Insiders. For samples of his articles and texts visit his blog at: http://nocomunicado.blogspot.com

In 2006 Rodrigo produced the Colombian feature “Satanás” (directed by Andi Baiz). This film was selected to represent Colombia in the 2008 Academy Awards’ Foreign Language category; it won the Best Picture and Best Actor awards at the 2007 Emerging Talent Film Festival in Monte Carlo, Monaco; it also receive an Honorific Mention at the 2007 San Sebastian Film Festival; and the Best Colombian Film Award at the 2007 Bogotá International Film Festival. Satanás has been selected in several other festivals, among them, Miami, Morelia, Huelva, Rio de Janeiro, and the 2007 Latin Films Exhibition at MoMA in New York.

He also produced the shorts “Hoguera” (Bonfire), directed by Andi Baiz and shot in 2007 (selected by the prestigious “Quinzaine des Realisateurs” at the 2007 Cannes Fim Festival) and “De Paso” (Passing by), also directed by Andi Baiz and starring Latin diva Angie Cepeda. This short has been distributed by web conglomerate Terra Networks in several international territories. He Executive Produced the Colombian feature “La Milagrosa” (directed by Rafael Lara), shot in 2007.

As Associated Producer Rodrigo has received credits in the features King Midas, directed by Brandon Cole, and Maria Full of Grace, directed by Joshua Marston, produced by Paul Mezey and co-produced b Jaime Osorio Gómez for HBO films. Maria Full of Grace received 23 international awards and 17 nominations from international festivals and critics circles, including the Audience Award at Sundance 2005, a Best Actress Silver Bear in Berlin for Catalina Sandino Moreno, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in the Oscars 2005. He was Associated Producer of the animated short film “Una de Espantos” (A spooky tale) directed by Andrés Felipe Zuluaga, distributed in the screens of Cine Colombia during 2006 and winner of the Guadalajara Animation Film Festival 2007 in Mexico.

As Director of Photography he has worked in 23 shorts, 14 music videos and the features “King Midas” (by Brandon Cole), Once a Year (by Paul Magid), “Little Kingston” a documentary directed by Daniel Lir; “Reunión” (by Bob Giraldi), “The Stone Raft” a documentary on Literature Nobel Prize José Saramago (by David Khamis), and 2nd Unit Photography for Maria Full of Grace’s Colombian sequences.

He also worked for 2 years as Producer, Director and Editor in Heavy Inc., a New York based audiovisual production company that pioneered the broadband web video market.

Rodrigo has in depth knowledge of the film production process thanks to his work in different positions in several feature films: Art Director Assistant in the feature “Belly” directed by acclaimed video clips director Hype Williams and produced by The Shooting Gallery; gaffer in the feature “Static”, directed by Sam Grossman; Art Director in Krutin Patel’s film “A,B,C,D” which received several awards; Production Assistant in the features “Finding Forrester” (by Gus Van Sant - starring Sean Connery), “Made” (by John Favreau), “Double Whammy” (by Tom DiCillo), and in Warner Brothers’ TV series “Third Watch”.

Since 2006 Diego has worked on design and coordination of marketing campaigns for Colombian films in both traditional and alternative media. He designed and oversaw the launch of dynamo Capital’s film projects Satanás (Satan) and Perro Come Perro (Dog-Eat-Dog).

He is focused on developing distribution strategies for Colombian films through windows that have not been used before in Colombia. He is implementing new distribution models, specific for each channel (DVD, Cable TV, Hotels, Airlines, Internet and other platforms), with the additional objectives of piracy control and maximization of home consumption of audiovisual entertainment.

Since 1995 Cristian has worked for various investment banks in New York, Stockholm, Paris, London and Madrid, including three years for Salomon Smith Barney between 1999 and 2002. Some of the key transactions in which he participated were the IPO’s of Inditex, Iberia, Grupo Prisa, and also in debt and share issues for Repsol and Telefónica. He also consulted for France Telecom in its bid for the Spanish UMTS licenses, in the restructuring of Telefónica’s business lines in Latin-America, and in the merger of Lolafilms with the German Kinowelt.

Since 2004 (after working as a freelance advisor for the film consulting firm Peacefulfish) he has been focused on structuring of film funds, on film investment analysis and on corporate consulting in the film sector.

In 2005 Cristian also worked for Movision, the largest film fund in the UK; for Curzon Capital, an alternative investment advisory boutique, as film investment expert; and in VisionInc, structuring and raising private equity funds focused on film investment. Since 2006 he has worked closely with Heather Mansfield, from Mansfield Associates, one of the world’s top risk consultancies for film projects, with whom he has worked in several projects. Cristian has direct access to an extensive network of contacts within the world of film production, distribution and financing.

In Colombia Andrés worked in fund management at Corredores Asociados, as local partner for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Bogotá and then in a Consulting Firm focused on restructuring of bankrupt firms. Then he moved to New York City to work for Global Crossing at the Corporate Development department and, before returning to Colombia, he worked for a Hedge Fund specialized in buy-outs of overdue accounts.

Since 2005 Andrés has been involved in the financial management of 6 film projects, managing budgets, negotiations and financial administration (including the fiscal benefits granted by the Colombia Film Law). The 6 films have been produced and distributed through different windows: Satanás, La Milagrosa, Perro Come Perro, Una de Espantos, Doctor Alemán, and De Paso.

Andrés has structured the sale of Film Investment Certificates for these 6 projects (granted by the Colombian Ministry of Culture) in the secondary market. His tasks have included management and optimization of returns for investors of these projects. He is today one of the top experts in film financing in Colombia.