Delivery
When the rainy season begins Helena’s baby shall be born. Her mother and brother prepare for the coming weeks of rain and maternity. Men and women fish and harvest in deep solitude; while nature, beautiful and painful, becomes the prison for all of them. The promise of a new life would have to change things.
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Martin Mejia RugelesDirector
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Martin Mejia RugelesProducer
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Cesar PatiñoProducer
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Yuliana RiosKey Cast
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Floresmira RestrepoKey Cast
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Victor VergaraKey Cast
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Nicolas CanniccioniDirector of Photography
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Felipe GuerreroEditing
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Carlos CorderoEditing
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Daniel VelascoMusic
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Marcela Gomez MontoyaArt Director
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Project Title (Original Language):Nacimiento
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Project Type:Feature
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Runtime:1 hour 22 minutes
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Completion Date:November 1, 2015
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Country of Origin:Colombia
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Country of Filming:Colombia
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Language:Spanish
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Shooting Format:s16mm
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Aspect Ratio:1:78
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
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Tallinn Black Nights Film FestivalTallinn
November 17, 2015
World Premiere
Best Film International Debuts Competition, FIPRESCI Prize -
Torino Film FestivalTorino, Italy
November 21, 2015
Italian Premiere -
Vilnius Film FestivalVilnius Lithuania
April 4, 2016
Lithuanian Premiere
Born in Colombia. He studied filmmaking and film theory in Colombia and Canada, and did a Masters of Fine Arts in Photography at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
In 2004, he was awarded the first prize at Oberhausen Film Festival with his graduation film Od-El Camino.
Nacimiento, his feature film debut, received the awards for Best Debut Film and FIPRESCI at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2015.
Nacimiento for me waves around the idea of creation of life as the result of clashing forces.
There’s the birth of a baby in a family with no genetic bonds, in a fictional isolated community where all persons go through solitude and pain. As we experience their waiting, their preparations, their spiritual introspection, we also get immersed in the beauty of a magnificent nature, but which is bonded intrinsically with its dark and violent side. We are in a small society without patriarchs, where innocent people try to go on with their lives they cannot influence. The arrival of the new-born without a father talks essentially about the inevitability of life. But it also sheds a small light for redemption and hope.