César Heredia Cruz's debut film, produced by Corte Films, a two-time winner of the Film Development Fund -FDC- (Screenwriting and Feature Film Production), came to the Spanish billboard thanks to the distribution of Barton Films.
Bogota, 1985. In the days leading up to the M-19 (80’s Colombian guerrilla group) seizure of the Palace of Justice, the city experiences some hard days filled with suspicion and militarized streets. Salvador has his workshop in center of the capital; a taciturn and lonely tailor whose routine breaks the day Isabel, the new extroverted and cheerful elevator designer, appears in his life. Their days begin to fill subtly with color, but it's just the mirage of those who don't want to see everything crumble around. His nephew, a student at the National University, disappears and his romance is tainted with jealousy that his insecurity and cowardice do not allow him to face but in the most ruin and scoundrel way. Salvador is one story and two stories, because his personal tragedy unfolds parallel to that of one of the most significant tragic moments in a country that silently and cowardly faced its own tragedy.
This is the story of Salvador, a feature film in which, through a fiction story, the takeover of the Palace of Justice is subtlety approached. This was the direst point of the confrontation between the army and the urban guerrillas of the M-19, and one of the most violent and unclear events in history Colombian, which hit the Spanish theaters on June 24. “My intention is to address and relate historical and personal events from the intimate, from the love story, which is slowly intertwined with social and historical events. I use memory as an axis of reflection, both of personal fears -those that I have lived through- and those of a society that, like me, has difficulty healing; and that is why escaping, prejudice, violence, and oblivion becomes the easier route,” explains director César Heredia, to the media Hoy, Diario del Magdalena.
This feature film, shot in the center of Bogota, stars Héctor García (El colombian dream, Satanás), Fabiana Medina (La Sargento Matacho, La toma de la embajada) in the role of Isabel, Fabio Velasco (Un Tal Alonso Quijano, Alias María), and Edgar Durán. It is a production by Corte Films and César Heredia, produced by María Fernanda Barrientos, with the support of Hangar Films, Rio Doppler, Gato Encerrado and Día Fragma Fábrica de Películas. In his development stage, it received the stimuli of Fiction Feature Film Screenwriting and Fiction Feature Film Production stimuli from the Fund for Film Development (FDC). It also won several awards in Argentina, Mexico and Spain; and it is stipulated that it will reach cinemas in the country by the end of 2021, thanks to the distribution of Cine Colombia.
Juan David Correal participated in the production and location management headquarters; Camilo Barreto art direction; Catherine Rodríguez costume; Juan Felipe Rayo live sound; Sebastián Hernández editing; among others.
César Heredia is a scriptwriter and film director from Bogota. He is a graduate of the master’s degree in Creative Writings from the National University. As a director, he has made the short films Rastro (2008), a participant in various festivals, including the Moscow Latin American Film Festival; and Elefante (2014), selected at festivals such as the Cartagena International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Mar del Plata and the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, among others, as well as winning the Best Short Film Award at the Colombian Film Festival in Berlin (2015) and the Best Fiction Short Film Award at the Latin American Film Festival in La Plata (2015), among others.
