Amalgama Screened at Several Festivals

Pantalla Colombia No.: 095
marzo 01 - 31 / 2020

Directed by Alejandra Wills, the Colombian short film Amalgama participated in four festivals during the last month, screening in Canada, California, South Africa and Germany. It also received an award during this tour

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Alcira and Henry are Colombian peasants. With a deep sadness uniting them, spending time together is an irritating and painful struggle. Still, they do it to appease their grief. Alcira needs to forgive him. Henry needs her forgiveness. This is the story of Amalgama, short film benefitted with the Short Film Production incentive by the Colombian Film Development Fund–FDF- 2016, which has participated in scenarios such as the Huesca International Film Festival (2019), where it had its world premiere; the Official Selection at the Cardo South American Short Film Program (Berlin, Germany, 2019); and the Ibiza International Independent Film Festival, where it received the International Best Short Film Award.
 
By March 2020, this short film was part of the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival that took place from March 3 to 8, a festival organized by Women in Film + Television Vancouver Society, a non-profit internationally affiliated association committed to progress and celebration of women in audiovisual means. Amalgama was part of the Shorts Program: Staring Down the Stillness selection, where it shared with Russian, Canadian, Polish and Austrian productions reflecting on loneliness, abandonment and emptiness seen from the female point of view. It also received, during the Berenice Piñeros event, the Lucas Talent Award for Best Performance in a Short.
 
Amalgama also participated in the Cinequest Short Film Competition, which 30th edition took place from March 3 to 15, in San Jose, California. Cinequest intends to bring the Silicon Valley’s technologies and innovation spirit together with the arts in order to boost great creations and connect audiences. The Colombian short was included in the Shorts Program 8: Far & Wide, which, in the opinion of Chris Garcia, director of the youth program at the Cinequest, gathers “works from Africa, Europe, Middle East and South America that unite to each other, exploring universal topics and leaving their own mark. Stories that show difficulties posed by self-imposed limitations that get developed with life and death stories, becoming a link among them. From animation to absolute realism, they will get you the feeling that you are immersed in the world’s best cinema.
 
The journey for this short film also included RapidLion – The South African International Film Festival, that took place from March 6 to 15 in Johannesburg. This festival aims to be the main marketing tool for films out of Europe and North America, focusing on Latin American, Central American, African and Asian productions, among others. Amalgama participated as a “college work.”
 
Finally, this short film participated in the INTL Short Film Week Regensburg (Germany), held from March 11 to 18, but suspended from March 14.
 
Alejandra Wills, director of Amalgama, has a master degree in scriptwriting from the EICTV from San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba (October 2015), and graduated with honors by the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Cine & TV in January 2014. She is currently writing two scripts for fiction feature films, one of which is commissioned and the other a personal work.

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