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

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.

Currently Andi lives in Bogotá, Colombia. Between 2005 and 2007 he wrote and directed his first feature film, Satanás (Satan), which received the Best Picture award at the Emerging Talent Film Festival in Montecarlo, Monaco, in May 2007. The film received a Honorific Mention at the San Sebastian Film Festival 2007, and has participated in several film festivals around the world. Satanás has been selected by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia to represent he country on the 2008 Oscar awards.

In this period he also wrote and directed his short Hoguera (Bonfire), shot in Cali in 2007, it was selected by the prestigious “Quinzaine des Realisateurs” at the 2007 Cannes Fim Festival. His last work as Director was the short De Paso (Passing by), starring the Latin diva Angie Cepeda. This short has been distributed by web conglomerate Terra Networks in several international territories. Colombian film critic Orlando Mora recognized Andi as “the most gifted Colombian film narrator in recent years, a director who will soon be part of the top film talent list in Latin-America”.

This short film explores a beautiful and melancholy landscape cut by a road that leads to the unknown. A surprising ending and a different perspective on the afterlife help to cre-ate this new representation of basic human preoccupations.

This project is part of webcaster TERRA Networks’ initiative to create original content from emerging Latin-American talent that will strengthen the connections between the different countries of the region.

Date of Production: July 2007

Director: Andi Baiz

Screenplay: Andi Baiz

Cast:

Angie Cepeda – Marina

Caoba Niquel – Simón

Cesar Badillo – Hombre

Producer: Rodrigo Guerrero

Cinematographer: Mauricio Vidal

Eduardo, a young upper-class Colombian, is on a road trip with a friend when he is kid-napped by a guerrilla group and held for ransom. After a long journey into the jungle, his kidnappers come under fire and he finds himself trapped in a long-standing feud be-tween the military, paramilitary and the guerrilla group who kidnapped him. Consumed at times by loneliness and traumatized by the armed dashes and dangerous ventures from camp to camp in the jungle, Eduardo’s outlook on life and his relationship with his country undergoes a radical transformation that is both painful and powerful to watch.

Date of Production: 2006-2007

Colombian Release: August 2008

Director: Rafael Lara

Screenplay: Rafael Lara and Antonio Merlano

Cast

Antonio Merlano – Eduardo Villareal

Guillermo Ivan Dueñas – El Lagarto

Mónica Gómez – Hermana

Production Services: dynamo Capital
Cinematographer: Mauricio Vidal