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Holy Shadow
A Film by Patricio Plaza, Paula Boffo, Argentina, 2023
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Original Title
Santa Sombra
Country of Production
Argentina
Year of Production
2023
Running Time
02'00''
Language
No dialogue
Awards
- 18 FESAALP, Latin American Film Festival (Best Short Film); 06/2023; Argentina
- 11 FICCS, CS International Film Festival (Best Animation); 10/2023; Argentina
Production
Production Company or Producer
Patricio Plaza, Paula Boffo
Contact Person
Patricio Plaza
Distribution
Distribution Company
FilmsToFestivals Distribution Agency
Contact Person
Gisela Chicolno
Synopsys
A woman that has been kidnapped by a trafficking network prays to a pagan saint to ask for her release.
Name
Patricio Plaza
Country
Argentina
Biography
Independent animation filmmaker (b. 1983). After studying visual arts and cinema at the UNLP, he has worked as a professional animator for more than 20 years. The short films "El Empleo" (2008) and "Padre" (2013), of which he is a co-author, received more than 200 International Awards. "Carne de Dios" is the first film from his fledgling production company Ojo Raro which aims to produce animation films from a South American and queer perspective.
Director's notes
SANTA SOMBRA is a project that emerges from a diversity of emergencies. The urgency of addressing the problem of violence against femininities and trafficking; the urgency of working on gender fiction with a non-masculinized or sexualized look at the female characters; the urgency of creating fiction in Latin American animation from an adult, complex, critical perspective, which puts into discussion some of the problems that we face at the regional level; the urgency of creating icons that reflect our diverse, contradictory, multicultural identities.
Name
Paula Boffo
Country
Argentina
Biography
Animator and Cartoonist (b. 1994). She participated in various national and international comic spaces. Made the award-winning comic strips “LA SOMBRA DEL ALTIPLANO” and “SI MOJÁS ME ENCIENDO”. As a director, she made the projects “SANTA SOMBRA” and “CON TUS HIJES SI”. In 2022 she published the graphic novels "SANTA SOMBRA" as a full author and "EL VIAJE REAL" with scriptwriter Carolina Unrein.
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