On his own

Santiago, an eastern colombian rancher suffers a water shortage in his farm while a mining company plans to extract oil from the region with the rejection of the community.

  • Ómarjavier Umaña
    Director
  • Ómarjavier Umaña
    Writer
  • Dora Helena Marín
    Producer
  • Carlos Hurtado
    Key Cast
    La gente de la Universal, Golpe de estadio, Perder es cuestión de método, El Jefe, Escobar, el patrón del mal
  • Lucía Buitrago
    Key Cast
  • Stic Echevarría
    Key Cast
  • Lina Quintero
    Key Cast
  • Pedro Nel Culma
    Key Cast
  • Francisco Godoy
    Key Cast
  • Juan David Acevedo
    Director of photography
  • Claudia Castro
    Director of art
  • Juan David Chaparro
    Sound design
  • Ángel Ruíz
    Sound
  • Herbert Salazar
    Edition
  • Reynaldo Armas
    Music
  • Alejandra Cedeño
    Asist. of Direction
  • Camilo Andrés Borráez
    Asist. of Direction
    Espérame, Genoveva
  • Johanna Palacios
    Script
  • Darlyn Alzate
    Asist. of Production
  • Jorge Jiménez
    Asist. of Production
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Por su cuenta
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Drama, Environment, Climate, Social, Ecologic
  • Runtime:
    20 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    November 24, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    31,600 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Colombia
  • Country of Filming:
    Colombia
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital Full HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Festival Internacional de la Imagen
    Manizales
    Colombia
    May 10, 2018
    Colombian Premiére
    Official Selection
  • Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Cine a la Calle
    Barranquilla
    Colombia
    May 19, 2018
    Official Selection
  • Festival Internacional de Cine en Las Montañas
    Salento
    Colombia
    June 10, 2018
    Official Selection
  • International Ecological Film Festival To Save and Preserve
    Khanty-Mansiysk
    Russian Federation
    June 5, 2018
    Official Selection
  • Festival Internacional de Cine de Villavicencio
    Villavicencio
    Colombia
    November 15, 2018
    Official Selection
  • Encuentro De Videocorto A Pantalla Abierta
    Toluca
    Mexico
    Official Selection
  • Maratón de Cortometrajes Pantalones Cortos
    Medellín
    Colombia
    August 25, 2018
    Official Selection
  • Festival de Cortometrajes Rodando en Bicicleta
    Amalfi
    Colombia
    September 22, 2018
    Official Selection
  • Concurso de Curtas-Metragens da Biodiversidade
    Vila Real
    Portugal
    August 10, 2018
    Official Selection
  • Festival De Cine Y Artes Visuales Bugarte
    Buga
    Colombia
    October 5, 2018
    Official Selection
  • Festival de Cine y Video Comuna 13 La Otra Historia
    Medellín
    Colombia
    September 27, 2018
    Official Selection
  • VII Festival Audiovisual de los Montes de María
    El Carmen de Bolívar
    Colombia
    October 23, 2018
    Official Slection
  • XII Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Villa de Leyva
    Villa de Leyva
    Colombia
    November 10, 2018
    Official Selection
  • VI Festival de Cine Colombiano Al Campo SiembraFest
    Villeta
    Colombia
    December 5, 2018
    Official Selection
  • XVI Bogoshorts International Film Festival
    Bogotá
    Colombia
    December 8, 2018
    Official Selection
  • IBEROFEST
    Bogotá
    Colombia
    November 25, 2018
    Official Selection
  • IV Festival Internacional de Cine sobre Derechos Humanos La Paz
    La Paz
    Bolivia, Plurinational State of
    December 5, 2018
    Official Selection
  • II International Short Film Festival Lagos
    Lagos
    Nigeria
    December 27, 2018
    African Premiere
    Official Selection
Distribution Information
  • Dólarblue Films
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Ómarjavier Umaña

Advisor and consultant lawyer in copyright for several producers companies of Colombia. In 2012 he complemented his profession with a Master's degree in Audiovisual Communication at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina and in 2016 co-founded the Dólarblue Films audiovisual company in Bogotá, of which he's the Executive Director and with which he has produced commercials, short films with wide recognition in festivals around the world and a couple of feature films in the development stage.
In addition to being the Producer of the contents of Dólarblue Films, he's currently professor at the Universidad Externado de Colombia.

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Director Statement

On his own develops an argument of the colombian rurality and also addresses a contemporary social drama because the protagonist's had a conflict with an oil company, and the short film tries to establish a parallel with respect to other similar conflicts that currently occur throughout Latin America. However, the fact that the way to approach this conflict is through an intimate story can't be so quickly passed, since that means that with it, the individual is going from the particular to the general and in that sense the narration must have enough strength to sensitize the viewer. That is why to achieve it, the short film is based on a Rhythm, a Sound, a Photograph, an acting development and an Art Direction related to the colombian and the Latin American cinema of rural arguments.