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SAÜDADE

  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    16 minutes 55 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 31, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - International University of art and design
  • Orlando Film Festival
    Orlando
    United States
    October 26, 2023
    Official Selection
Director Biography

Ana Diaz Pennimpede is a Venezuelan filmmaker, who has also stood out as an actress, singer and plastic artist from a very early age.She completed her training as a filmmaker at Miami International University of Art & Design accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). 

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Director Statement

SAÜDADE shows the reflection of situations experienced internally as a transition between the characters that represent her (Celeste, Lara and Laurel), enclosing in the same time line symbols and meanings of the culture of her country that as a whole reflects the nostalgia for the experience of emigration and evokes the devotion of the manifestations rooted in the land that saw her birth as is the faith towards the saints and in this particular case to San Antonio and his tamunangue; equally to all the elements that have formed part of her artistic experience such as plastic arts, theater and music.
The characters in this production are masterfully represented by the actresses Jessica Mesa (Celeste), Maria.T Caro (Lara) and Dayanna Pinero (Laurel), who, at the intersection of their lives, emulate the relationship of two women (Lara and Laurel) who in their maternal energy they suffer the pain of denial, sadness, loneliness due to the absence of Celeste who died vanished in time. These characters also represent in some way the relationship that we have internally of all the "I" in its different stages and the transit of the states of attachment, nostalgia, vulnerability, denial, pain, acceptance and finally the scope of liberation. that all the characters (or states of the Self) achieve through Laurel who represents the present, maturity and the transformation of all the most intimate experiences and memories into a renewed and conscious version of being.