Private Project

Of Cowards, Sages, and Machos

Paco and Sergio face off in a duel to the death in ancient Andalusia.

  • Pedro Segura
    Director
  • Pedro Segura
    Writer
  • Santiago Gonzalez Cutre
    Key Cast
  • Gonzalo Laprida
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    De cobardes y sabios y machos
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Western, Drama, Gender
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 15 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 20, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    15,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Argentina
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.39:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Escuela de cine y televisión Septima Ars
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Almeria Western Film Festival
    Tabernas
    Spain
    November 14, 2023
    Spain
  • FLAME first cut 2024

    India
  • Zabrinsky film festival
    Bogotá
    Colombia
  • Cine de barrio
    Granada
    Spain
Director Biography - Pedro Segura

Argentinean. 31 years old. Film director and professional photographer. Lawyer from the Argentine Catholic University. In another life he worked half a decade in the Argentine financial sector.
In 2019, as his photographic series "El despertar" recounts, he suffered the death of a very close friend which led him to an existential and vocational crisis. left behind that life embarking on a path of dreams. To be able to live off what he loves. From the cinema.
He founded an independent film production company in Argentina and after working in production and preparing for a few years
He wrote and directed his first short film: “OF COWARDS, SAGES, AND MASCULINITY" an the film has his European premiere in the AWFF in October of 2023. It is a silent western about a confrontation between two gunmen that disguises the problems of masculinity and the social pressure to which she was always subjected. He is starting the distribution of his second short film, "A Hug" while he is writing his first feature film.

Pedro is also a photographer and has been exhibiting three photographic series in galleries and museums in Spain and Argentina. One of them is about the "The Awakening" that he had with three friends after facing death. We leave you a link to the series. https://pedrosegura01.myportfolio.com/series

Education: Film Direction at the Septima Ars film and television school, Spain. Cinematographic direction workshop, UNAM Film Library, Mexico. Film Director, BONA Films, Argentina. Gaffer-lighting course, ECA, Argentina.
Different script writing workshops with: Celina Murga| Gabriel Medina| Nicholas Zukerfeld| Jazmín Carballo| Clara Picasso. Bilingual English with international certificates at Cambridge and Trinity Universities, London.

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Director Statement

"OF COWARDS, SAGES, AND MASCULINITY"" its born from an intention to have an experience in genre cinema, focused on a message that goes underground by knocking on the doors of toxic masculinity and the gaze of society.