Tierra Caliente
Synopsis
The story of an ordinary family in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. As they go about their normal lives, they are caught in the crossfire between the Narco drug cartels and the military.
"Following the kidnapping of her husband by a cartel, a woman named only as ‘Daughter 2’ grieves and tries to keep her family together. Her community band around her, with over 100 local taxi drivers going on a search to find the missing husband – to little avail, as they find him murdered the next day. Violence has a way of being contagious and Daughter 2’s son, on a misguided search for justice, joins a defence militia, while Daughter 2 herself suffers from anxiety and depression as she tries to keep her fractured family together. Narrated as a poetic hybrid of documentary and fiction, the screenplay is a transcript of conversations of the family recorded over a period of two years. Actors play the members of the family to protect their identity, but we are able to hear the actual recordings throughout the film, reminding the audience that these people are real."
Details
- Year
- 2015
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 80 mins
- Director
- Laura Plancarte 1st Feature
- Producer
- Ellis Freeman, Mike Lerner, Laura Plancarte, Luke Schiller, Enrrique Arroyo Schroeder
- Co-Producer
- Carolina Amador
- Editor
- Helle Le Fevre, Vera Simmonds
- Screenwriter
- Laura Plancarte
- Director of Photography
- Eben Bolter, Richard Gillespie
- Production Designer
- Alison Dominitz
- Music
- David M Saunders
- Principal Cast
- Claudia Coulter, Yvonne O'Grady, Anais Alvarado
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 24th March 2016
