LA FAMILIA
Filmfest 2017
Chile, Norway, Venezuela 2017
Original version with English subtitles
(Original: Spanish)
German Premiere
Director: Gustavo Rondón Córdova
Section: International Independents
Twelve-year-old Pedro roams the streets with his friends, raised by the violent urban atmosphere around him in a working class district of Caracas. After Pedro seriously injures another boy in a rough game of play, single father Andrés decides they must flee to hide. Andrés will realize he is a father incapable of controlling his own teenage son, but their situation will bring them closer than they have ever been.
Cast: Giovanny García, Reggie Reyes
Credits
Screenplay: Gustavo Rondón Córdova
Director of Photography: Luis Armando Arteaga
Film Editor: Andrea Chignoli, Cristina Carrasco (EDA),Gustavo Rondón Córdova
Composer: Alejandro Zavala
Production Designer: Matías Tikas
Sound: Miguel Hormazábal, Marco Salaverría
Producer: Natalia Machado Fuenmayor, Marianela Illas, Rubén Sierra Salles, Rodolfo Cova, Gustavo Rondón Córdova
Co-Producer: Álvaro De La Barra, Dag Hoel
Production Company: La Pandilla Producciones
Co-Production Company: Cine Cercano, Factor RH, Ávila Films, DHF
World Sales: Celluloid Dreams
Director: Gustavo Rondón Córdova
biography
LA FAMILIA is the feature film debut of Gustavo Rondón Córdova. He has written, directed and produced several short films shown at international festivals (Berlinale, Tribeca, Biarritz, Toulouse, Havana). His most recent short NOSTALGIA was selected for the Berlinale Competition 2012 and broadcast by prestigious European channel ARTE. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1977, he holds a Communications degree from the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), as well as a Film Degree from the Film Directing Academic Program at the Film and Television School from the Academy of Interpretative Arts in Prague (FAMU), Czech Republic.
