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SHEUT

“In Ancient Egypt, Sheut was the shadow. One could not be without a shadow, and a shadow could not be without a body.”

Luis is a sailor currently living and working on a cargo ship. A disturbing dream will lead him to start a journey into his past, in which he must relive his fears and memories in order to find himself again, facing his darkest part–– his shadow.

  • Teo Belton
    Director
  • Teo Belton
    Writer
  • Macarena Coello
    Producer
  • José Luis Ruiz
    Key Cast
    "Luis"
    Adult Luis
  • Brando Gallesi
    Key Cast
    "Luis"
    Young Luis
  • Norma Martínez
    Key Cast
    "Mother"
    Mother
  • Miguel Medina
    Key Cast
    "Father"
    Father
  • Alejandro Zucca
    Key Cast
    "Sheut"
    The Shadow
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    SHEUT
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Drama, Fantastic, Magic Realism, Surrealism, Family Drama
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes 41 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 7, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    5,300 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Peru
  • Country of Filming:
    Peru
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.35:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Creation Internacional Film Festival

    United States
    Winner in “Best Cinematography”, “Best Color Treatment”, “Best Original Score” and “Best Experimental Short”
  • Redline International Film Festival

    Canada
    Winner in “Best Supporting Actress”
  • Sensus Film Festival.

    Russian Federation
    Winner in “Best Ensemble Cast” and “Best Production Design”
  • Insólito Fest

    Peru
    “Honorable Mention”
  • Starlight Film Awards Winter Edition

    India
    Winner in “Best Shortfilm”
  • Cinema World Fest

    Canada
    Winner in “Best Produced Screenplay”, “Best Color Treatment”, “Best Editing” and “Best Make up, FX”
  • Premios Latinos

    Spain
    Winner in “Best Director”, “Best Production” y “Best Make up”
  • Alternative Film Festival Summer

    Winner in “Best Experimental Short
  • Yes! Let's Make a Movie Film Festival

    Canada
    “Honorable Mention”
  • Indie Visions Film Festivalen

    United States
    Official Selection
  • Best of Latin America Short Film Festival

    United States
    Official Selection
  • Peruvian Film Festival

    France
    Official Selection
  • FINDECOIN International Short Film Festival

    Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
    Official Selection
  • Filmstrip International Film Festival

    Romania
    Official Selection
  • Indie Short Fest
    Los Angeles
    United States
    Official Selection
  • Bengals International

    India
    Official Selection
  • Digital Griffix Online Film Festival

    Canada
    Official Selection
  • International Shorts

    Australia
    Official Selection
  • Cinetoro Experimental

    Colombia
    Official Selection
  • Amazing Shorts

    Spain
    Official Selection
  • Cinematic Panic

    United States
    Official Selection
  • Eneagrama Festival Internacional de Cine Experimental

    Argentina
    Official Selection
  • Stockholm Independent Film Festival

    Sweden
    Official Selection
  • International Festival Signs of the Night

    Official Selection
  • Festival de Cine de Trujillo

    Peru
    Official Selection
  • Concurso Nacional de Cortometrajes

    Peru
Distribution Information
  • La Taberna Studios
    Distributor
    Country: Peru
    Rights: Internet
Director Biography - Teo Belton

Teo Belton (1991, Zapopán, Mexico) is a French and Mexican film director and screenwriter based in Peru.

Teo embraces dreams, reality, and fiction and exposes the most intimate landscapes of nature, inspired by Colombian magical realism. In 2016 he directed the short film "Somnotoscope", where he tells the story of a 19th century inventor who created a cinematograph capable of filming dreams, awarded at national festivals and by DAFO (Peruvian Ministry of Culture Award). That same year, he participated in the SONY Short Fest contest organized by the University of Lima and SONY, creating the short film "KA", awarded first place. As part of the award, Teo and his team went to Las Vegas to exhibit the project at the prestigious NAB SHOW.

Belton’s fiction short-film, "SHEUT" (2017), had 18 official national and international selections, and won 18 international awards in several categories between 2017 and 2019.

In 2020, Belton worked on a documentary short film and multimedia project: "Dialogue with Plants", focused on the health impact in the Peruvian Amazon with the support of the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Journalism Fund, showing his more versatile eye.

That same year, he started directing "Uroboros", about a story of mourning and that aloud him to go back to surreal and science fiction overtones.

In 2021, he was awarded a National Geographic grant to film in the Peruvian Amazon. A documentary short film about an Awajun Indigenous man who travels in his memory to reconnect with the ways of existence of his culture, untitled "Cumbia's Day”.
Later, he directed "Cuidantsiqmi", a documentary supported by the Wellcome Trust Foundation, which reunites the Indigenous Wari testimonies about the climate change impact on their physical and mental health in the Cordillera Blanca of the Andes, in Peru.

Filmography:

- Somnotoscope (2016)
- KA (2016)
- SHEUT (2017)
- Uroboros (2020) - In production
- Dialogue with Plants (2021)
- Cuidantsiqmi: Love and Care For the Land (2022)
- Cumbia's Day (2022)
- Natikumbatá: I Came to See (2022)

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Director Statement

Dedicating myself to film directing has allowed me to be versatile in my interest and ability to reveal unique worlds and atmospheres in both fiction and documentary.

I am interested in staging singular worlds, since I can understand them from my own life, forged from encounters and dreamlike journeys, since my childhood since I was born in Zapopan, a town in Mexico, where I lived and grew up with native peoples. Native cultures have always accompanied me and today they persist as memories that direct my gaze towards different ways of existing.

The cinema is for me, the possibility of continuing with an oneiric journey that marked my existence.