Misplace the rabbits
A foreboding glimpse into the life of a girl under pressure from her parents concerning her eating behavior and childish tastes. Ignoring the family festivities, her parents ditch her for a day, leaving her in the care of a neighbor. The girl will regress to the events that have hurt her.
Note from the Director:
'Rabbits have been a symbol of childhood ever since Lewis Carroll's portray of a certain elusive character, but it is in the interpretation of each psyche that it takes a more perpetual shape. In my analysis of its symbolism, the rabbit expresses a female childhood at an age close to puberty, along with the desire to leave the bonds; perhaps a virginal consciousness that remains in the symbol of rabbits to this very day.'
Language: Spanish with English subtitles.
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Laura Maria Isabel Ruiz OcadizDirector'Nothing is What It Seems' (2013); 'The Gift' (2015); 'Dreams and Realities' (2016); 'Abyss' (2017); 'Neither You Nor I' (2021).
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Laura Maria Isabel Ruiz OcadizWriter'Nothing is What It Seems' (2013); 'The Gift' (2015); 'Dreams and Realities' (2016); 'Abyss' (2017); 'Neither You Nor I' (2021).
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Roberto Eduardo Arenas FarquetProducer'Neither You Nor I' (2021).
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Roberto Eduardo Arenas FarquetKey Cast"Dad"
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Babi RuizKey Cast"Girl (voice)"
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Roberto Eduardo Arenas FarquetFilm Editor'Neither You Nor I' (2021).
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Laura Maria Isabel Ruiz OcadizColor Grading'Nothing is What It Seems' (2013); 'The Gift' (2015); 'Dreams and Realities' (2016); 'Abyss' (2017); 'Neither You Nor I' (2021).
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Roberto Eduardo Arenas FarquetSound Design'Neither You Nor I' (2021).
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Laura Maria Isabel Ruiz OcadizMusic coordinator'Neither You Nor I' (2021).
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Project Title (Original Language):Extraviar los conejos
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Project Type:Experimental, Short
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Genres:Drama, Experimental, Psychological, Childhood, Raising children, Parenthood, Parenting, Family issues, Women's cinema, Montage, Growing pains, Latin, Hispanic, Mexican, Psicológico, Short, Arthouse, Cine de Arte, Women's rights, Children at risk
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Runtime:4 minutes 15 seconds
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Completion Date:September 15, 2021
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Production Budget:1,000 MXN
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Country of Origin:Mexico
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Country of Filming:Mexico
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Language:English, Spanish
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Shooting Format:Full HD
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Abbey Film FestivalLondon, England
United Kingdom
September 30, 2021
Online Premiere
Official Selection -
Berlin Flash Film FestivalBerlin
Germany
September 30, 2021
German Premiere (Zoo Palast)
Best Super Short Drama Nominee -
Guttercast FestivalOnline Event
United States
October 9, 2021
Online Premiere
Official Selection -
Sweden Film AwardsStockholm
Sweden
October 3, 2021
Swedish Premiere
Best Editing Super Short Film Semi-Finalist -
Adamawa Film FestivalJimeta, Adamawa
Nigeria
October 29, 2021
Nigerian Premiere (Fastnet Cinema)
Best Short Film Semi-Finalist -
Bettiah International Film FestivalBettiah, Bihar
India
November 22, 2021
Indian Premiere (Town Hall)
Official Selection -
Gully International Film FestivalPatna, Bihar
India
November 30, 2021
Patna Premiere (Boring Road)
Best Short Film -
New York Tri-State International Film FestivalNew York, New York
United States
March 20, 2022
North American Premiere
Best Micro Film -
Roma Short Film FestivalRome
Italy
April 3, 2022
Italian Premiere
Best Micro Film -
New Wave Short Film FestivalMunich, Bavaria
Germany
April 4, 2022
Online Premiere
Best Human Rights -
Tokyo International Short Film FestivalTokyo
Japan
April 4, 2022
Japanese Premiere
Best Female Director Nominee -
MegaFlix Film AwardsGloucester, England
United Kingdom
September 4, 2022
British Premiere
Best Poster -
Dulcísimo Ovario Festival de Video y Cine FemeninoPachuca, Hidalgo
Mexico
September 26, 2022
Mexican Premiere (Centro Cultural del Ferrocarril)
Official Selection -
Rohip International Film FestivalTamil Nadu, Sivaganga
India
December 7, 2022
Indian Premiere (Indira Nagar, Kallal)
Best Trailer -
Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions by Lift-Off Global NetworkBuckinghamshire
United Kingdom
May 1, 2023
Buckinghamshire Premiere
Official Selection
Distribution Information
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Luminosa CanalDistributorCountry: WorldwideRights: Free TV
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Luminosa FilmsDistributorCountry: WorldwideRights: Video / Disc
Laura Maria Isabel Ruiz Ocadiz was born in 1983 in Mexico City, in the cradle of a family of musicians. A fanatic of the seventh art, Mexican melodrama and classical literature, she developed her abilities in different artistic disciplines from an early age, including Acting for Musical Comedies at the Artestudio academy. Years later, she graduated with a Bachelor of Psychology (her thesis in the "Incidency of Nervous Anorexia and Bulimia in a group of female ballet dancers" was selected by the Tepeyac University Degree Department as the best of 2007). Being a cinephile, she gained a certain popularity online as an amateur movie reviewer, years before the rise of modern social media. This was a milestone that led her to collaborate with the online magazine "F.I.L.M.E. Magazine", providing her cinematographic analysis of several works, and to be featured as a guest in National Polytechnic Institute Radio (Radio Instituto Politécnico Nacional). In 2010, she attained a scholarship from the General Society of Writers of Mexico (SOGEM), and upon finishing her studies in literature —while working as a member of the Neurological Center Research Department at the ABC Medical Center Hospital—, she contributed to the aforementioned insitution's scientific magazine "Medical Annual" (Anales Médicos) while looking for a creative outlet. It was then when, in 2014, CONACULTA (today the Ministry of Culture [Secretaría de Cultura]) selected her as the Art House and Auteur Film T.V. spot screenwriter for the Cinema 22 film block, at Channel 22 (Canal 22). Her artistic career naturally branched off into the making of the short films "The Gift" (El Regalo, 2015) —made the same year she finished her Film Directing course, thaught by mexican filmmaker and actor Diego Luna—, "Nothing is what it seems" (Nada es lo que parece, 2016) and "Abyss" (Abismo, 2017), all of which she wrote and directed, ultimately getting them screened in several National Festivals; one of these shorts, particularly, on the screens of the National Cinematheque of Mexico (Cineteca Nacional De México). She decided to continue increasing her knowledge with a Master's Degree in Cinematography from Altrafílmica, which at the end she complemented —after being chosen for a scholarship by the editor, writer and director Juan Pablo Cortés ("Love Hurts" [Amar te duele, 2002]; "Luciana", 2010)— with the Film Editing course at the Center for Cinematographic Studies (CEC) in Mexico City. In 2018, she married actor and film editor Roberto Eduardo Arenas Farquet, and enjoyed a well-deserved break from cinema that led her to publish three literary fiction novels: "Amnesty", (Amnistía, 2018), "Steve's boater: Truth and life" (El canotier de Steve: La verdad y la vida", 2020), and "A wakefulness of indocility" (Un desvelo de indocilidad, 2021). After this very productive hiatus, she's finally come back to filming for good, writing and directing the 2021 released short films "Neither you nor I" (Ni tú ni yo), "Misplace the rabbits" (Extraviar los conejos), and "We are a motive" (Somos un motivo); and her 2022 silent short film "Love without a casket" (Amor sin féretro), showcased on her very own free streaming channel LuminosaCanal.com
Maria currently resides somewhere in the beautiful and mysterious Mexico, where she enjoys conversations about literature and cinema with her husband; while tending to the endless demands of her two attention-freak cats.
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"To capture the most terrible sensations in the world is what has defined my chaotic way of thinking. A way that some have found beautiful".
(Spanish) "Captar las sensaciones más terribles del mundo es lo que ha definido mi pensamiento caótico. Pensamiento que a unos cuantos ha parecido bello".