Don't Open that Orange

Even someone who lives inside the most surreal fiction would be surprised by what we are living nowadays. Our reality in these moments exceeds what we could never have imagined. In this short, surrealism and reality are mixed in such a way that we cannot know which is which. It is possible that the same thing is happening to us ...

  • Marco Araujo
    Director
  • Marco Araujo
    Writer
  • Marco Araujo
    Producer
  • Ana Dolado
    Key Cast
  • Fernando Araujo
    Key Cast
  • Roque Baños
    Musica
    "La Comunidad"
  • Grupo Cooperativo TANGENTE
    Assesment and support
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    No Abras esa Naranja
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Fiction, Surrealism, Pandemic, Quarantine
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 11 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 30, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - IES Isaac Newton
  • ESNE Feelmotion
    Madrid
    Spain
    Official Young Award
  • All American High School Film Festival
    New York
    United States
    Official Selection
  • Cinemajove National Contest
    Valencia
    Spain
    Official Selection
  • X Daroca Prison and Film Festival
    Daroca, Aragón
    Spain
    Official Young Selection
  • DUff - Dubrovnik Film Festival
    Dubrovnik
    Croatia
    Official Selection
  • Newark IFF Youth Festival
    Newark
    United States
    Official Selection
  • FIFES Comedy Film Festival
    Zagreb
    Croatia
    Official Selection
  • III FICIJ Cachinus de cine
    Cilleros
    Spain
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Marco Araujo

Marco Araujo Dolado (Madrid, 24/08/2004) began his interest in film making with 10 years, directing schoolmates in short films and learning video editing.
With 11 and 12 years old he focuses his interest in the stop-motion technique creating various assemblies with plasticine dolls and other objects. In parallel, he writes several stories that they intend to use as script bases for future short films. Among them, "The Duke of Hamilton", in what is based a new project in which he has been working for 3 years.
In 1st and 2nd of the ESO, he made several short films for the institute, among them, a documentary about the Republic and the Civil War.

https://mediateca.educa.madrid.org/video/zfw7bv3tzg6y973p
In January of 2017 and in 2019 he wins the Ciudad de Tudela Children's Tales Contest in his category with the stories, Doña Fina and Cocinando. This last one is the base of his first short, written and directed alone, made in the summer of 2018 at the age of 13 years.
In the spring of 2019, in his second short "La Haibtación del Piano" where the music is composed and played by his classmates from the musical group "La clave" of the music school in which he has been attending since he was 6 years old.
In 2019 he also won the XXXVII contest Antonio Robles with the story "El libreto" on which he is preparing the script for his next short film.

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