La Ofrenda
Argentina, 21 mins, Digital
In rural Argentina, a teenage boy joins his father back to the farm where he grew up to visit a woman from his past, until her final request forces the boy to make an impossible choice.
Director: Eduardo Ecker
Writer: Eduardo Ecker
Producer: Martín Granada
Director of Photography: Gustavo Schiaffino
Editor: Albert Tholen
Production Designer: Albert Tholen
Composer: Amir Sanjari
Cast: Dante Limarzi, Pablo Limarzi, Eva Bianco, Eduardo Rivetto
Contact: Eduardo Ecker, ee2529@columbia.edu
Program E
Saturday, May 16, 9 PM
About the Writer/Director
Eduardo Ecker is a screenwriter and film director from Buenos Aires, Argentina. His filmmaking practice engages with a poetics of disfluency, questioning notions of beauty, abstraction, and displacement. He holds an MA (Hons) in Philosophy from the University of St Andrews, and is pursuing an MFA in Screenwriting & Film Directing at Columbia University. In 2025, he was the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Award.
About the Producer
Martín Granada Lopez is a Colombian American producer based in New York City. A BFA graduate of Syracuse University and MFA candidate at Columbia University, his work reflects the cross-cultural experiences that reflect his upbringing. He has received numerous honors, including the Katharina Otto-Bernstein Scholarship, the Arthur Krim Memorial Award, and the Tarkowski Grant.
