And The Whole Sky Fit In The Dead Cow’s Eye (Y Todo el Cielo Cupo en el Ojo de la Vaca Muerta)
Chile, 19 min, RED
Emeteria (85) is visited by the ghost of her patrón, Teodoro. She believes he has come to take her to the afterlife, but he has more devastating news.
Director: Francisca Alegría
Writer(s): Francisca Alegria
Producer(s): Birgit Gernböeck
Director of Photography: Matías Illanes
Editor(s): Francisca Alegria
Production Design: Bernardita Baeza
Composer(s): José Ignacio Badía
Cast: Shenda Román, Luis Dubó, Catalina Saavedra, Gregory Cohen
Language: Spanish
Contact: Francisca Alegria, francisca.alegria.z@gmail.com
About the Writer/Director
Francisca Alegría is a Chilean screenwriter/director, whose work extends from music videos to experimental and narrative short films. Before coming to Columbia, she was selected at the Berlinale Talent Campus. Her short films have travelled to different international film festivals and on 2015 she won the prestigious Katharina Otto-Bernstein Film Fund Award. Now a days, she is developing a feature length script with hopes of directing it in Chile, 2017.
About the Producer
Birgit Gernboeck is New York and Germany-based producer. Over the course of her studies at Columbia, Gernboeck has produced over 10 short films. SUNDAE, directed by Sonya Goddy, premiered at the NYFF in 2015 and screened at the Atlanta Film Festival, and the Florida Film Festival. Gernboeck was granted two Katharina Otto-Bernstein production awards for her thesis films in 2015, and BAKRI received additional support from the German Film Fund.
