Crossing the Line

  • Prakriti Maduro
    Director
  • Prakriti Maduro
    Writer
  • Mariale Fleitas
    Producer
  • Mariela Segovia
    Key Cast
  • Prakriti Maduro
    Key Cast
  • Gala Rasquin
    Key Cast
  • Gabriela Perez
    Cinematographer
  • Otto Scheuren
    Editor
  • Santos Palazzi
    Composer
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 54 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 12, 2026
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Venezuela
  • Country of Filming:
    United States, Venezuela
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Prakriti Maduro

Prakriti is a Venezuelan actress, acting coach, screenwriter, theater and film director recognized as a Berlinale Talent and TEDx speaker, with a deep fascination for the mazes of the mind.

She’s a published author of children's books and poetry. She’s proudly part of the Latin American filmography as an actress and acting coach, working in 8 countries across the continent. She has received multiple awards from national and international festivals.

Prakriti received a Fundación Carolina Scholarship for playwriting and directing in Spain and another from the Venezuelan Film Association (CNAC) to study at The Lee Strasberg Institute in the USA.
In theater, she has collaborated on over 40 plays across South America with nine different theater companies, embracing various roles within the creative process.

As a director, Prakriti has led theater plays, commercials, a music video, a fashion film, experimental short films and a web series episode. With wide experience in stop-motion animation, she has directed a national award-winning short film and advertising campaigns. She’s become a leading figure in this niche genre in Venezuela and has been invited to speak at national film schools and film festivals.

She's currently developing her debut feature film and leads the California division of JEVA, an organization of Venezuelan female filmmakers around the world.

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Director Statement

Crossing the Line explores the quiet space where grief, memory, and longing intersect.

The film follows a woman running, uncertain whether she is escaping something or searching for it. She exists in an emotional threshold, where inner turmoil meets the vastness of nature. She was drawn to that liminal moment where pain feels overwhelming, yet the possibility of connection has not entirely vanished.

This short film was born from a shared absence. Both the actress and I have lost a parent, and with that loss comes a lifelong dialogue: unanswered questions, unspoken words, love with no clear place to rest. Through fiction, we allowed ourselves to imagine what it might feel like to be met by that love again, even briefly.

Rather than offering answers, Crossing the Line invites the audience to sit with ambiguity, the mystery of connection beyond loss, the meaning that can emerge from unexpected encounters, and the quiet resilience that surfaces when everything seems to narrow into a single decision, a single moment, an edge.

The film is an offering not only to those who have loved deeply and lost profoundly, but also to those who left too soon, and to the unseen bond that may continue beyond absence, seeking in its own way to reach back, to connect, and to hold us once more.