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Sperm Friends

Andrea and Carla, a lesbian couple, proposes to Hernan and Facundo, their favourite friend gay couple, to have a baby through a fertility treatment. The thing gets complicated when they realize the problems that the situation entails and they have to choose which of the two men will be the sperm donor.

  • Ramiro Velasco
    Director
    Familia por encargo
  • Ramiro Velasco
    Writer
    Familia por encargo
  • Belén Castroagudín
    Writer
  • Karina Pirillo
    Producer
  • El Delirio Cine
    Producer
  • Belén Castroagudín
    Key Cast
    "Andrea"
  • Gastón Filgueira
    Key Cast
    "Facundo"
  • Verónica Mayorga
    Key Cast
    "Carla"
  • Alberto Varela
    Key Cast
    "Hernán"
  • El Delirio Cine
    Distributor
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Amigos de esperma
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Comedy, LGTB
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 11, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Argentina
  • Country of Filming:
    Argentina
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    DCP
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Indian World Film Festival 2019
    Hyderabad
    India
    April 16, 2019
    Indian Premiere
    Honorable Jury Mention
  • Lift-Off Global Network / First-Time Filmmaker Sessions 2019
    London
    United Kingdom
    March 1, 2019
    Vimeo-on-demand
    First-Time Filmmaker Sessions 2019
  • ANDALESGAI: Festival de Cine Lésbico, Gay, Bisexual y Trans
    Andalucía
    Spain
    Official Selection
  • Audience Awards LGBTQ Film Festival
    Missoula, Montana
    United States
    June 9, 2019
    Official Selection
  • Internacional Queer Film Festival Playa del Carmen
    Playa del Carmen
    Mexico
    November 8, 2019
    Official Selection
  • OUTFEST Perú - Festival de Cine Gay, Lésbico, Trans, Bi
    Lima
    Peru
    June 19, 2019
    Official Selection
  • Best of Latin America Short Film Festival 2019
    Santa Mónica
    United States
    June 22, 2019
    Official Selection
  • CINEVERSATIL, Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes LGBTIQ+
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    June 27, 2019
    Argentina Premiere
    Premio del Público (Audience Award)
  • Festival de cine LesBiGayTrans
    Asunción
    Paraguay
    July 15, 2019
    Paraguay Premiere
    Official Selection
  • BCT - Festival Nazionale del Cinema e della Televisione di Benevento
    Benevento
    Italy
    July 8, 2019
    Official Selection
  • BISFF – Bengaluru International Short Film Festival 2019
    Bengaluru
    India
    August 17, 2019
    Official Selection International Competition
  • El lugar sin límites - Festival de Cine LGBTI
    Quito
    Ecuador
    November 14, 2019
    Ecuador Premiere
    Official Selection
  • The Latin Quaker Queer Film Festival - GlennFilm Festival
    Los Ángeles
    United States
    October 6, 2019
    Official Selection
Distribution Information
  • El Delirio Cine
Director Biography - Ramiro Velasco

Ramiro Velasco was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He graduated as Image and Sound Designer (UBA). Founding partner of the production company El Delirio Cine (Argentina).

Director and screenwriter of short films In the name of the son (2006), Spoiled (2011) and Sperm Friends (2019), amongst others.

His last short-film Sperm Friends (2019), a LGTB’s comedy, has been selected in several film festival, such as 3rd Indian World Film Festival (where it won the Honorable Jury Mention), Lift-Off Sessions from Pinewood Studios, Andalesgai LGTB film Festival, OutFest Perú, International Queer Film Festival Playa del Carmen, LesBiGayTrans Asunción Paraguay and Versátil LGTB Film Festival, among others.

He is the Editor of the theatrical film Callcenter (2019, INCAA Digital Competition), by Federico Velasco and Sergio Estilarte, recently premiered in Argentina.

He is the writer and director of Delivery Dads (in development), his first LGTB feature film, which has won the Ibermedia Development Fund and has participated in several development film labs, such as Bolivia Lab, Mic Género Gender Lab (México) and Raymundo Gleyzer, cine de la base (Argentina).

Currently working as director, screenwriter and editor for several production companies, by making commercials, TV programmes and corporate videos.

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Director Statement

We live in a society where are still many obstacles for members of the LGTB community to have children.

SPERM FRIENDS highlights this issue from a satirical point of view, questioning the paternity and maternity prejudices of the patriarchal culture in which we live and envisioning a new family prototype, more in tune with current times.

It is a tragicomedy of errors that builds a playful and extravagant universe, mainly through interior scenes, with ordinary characters that are recognizable in our daily lives, but who are immersed in an unusual and marvellous event, almost a caricature.

It is an aesthetic fusion: a collage that ensnares characters in a comedy of manners and picturesque surroundings bordering on the kitsch, where each frame becomes a visually beautiful experience.

The camera follows these beings who are seeking another but can’t find them, who talk a great deal but can’t understand the other, who pretend to be happy but are full of fear.

The staging has a circus-like atmosphere, making one want to discover what is going to happen next; it also acts as a point at issue for the needed debate as to what our future society will look like.