Private Project

Where burning cold lies

Based on a true testimony, “Where burning cold lies” takes us back in time through an atmospheric journey towards the feelings of a woman. Between the present and dreams, Aurora arrives at her childhood home in the midst of a cloud of fog and intense cold. Restless, she visits this place to reconnect with her dead father and to be able to give the funeral ritual to his corpse. But the past overwhelms her, confronts her, those uncomfortable events of her childhood are relived, which has been marked by her father's love and abuse.

  • Pau Verdalet
    Director
  • Diego Orozco
    Producer
  • Pau Verdalet
    Producer
  • Ian B. Morales
    Director of Photography
  • Elena Garibay
    Key Cast
  • Chloe Marmolejo
    Key Cast
  • Antonio Verdalet Ledani
    Key Cast
  • Marycarmen García Olagaray
    Executive Producers
  • Lore Azar
    Executive Producers
  • Teresa García
    Executive Producers
  • Pablo Azar
    Executive Producers
  • Ana C. Grajales
    Executive Producers
  • Javier Sixh
    Executive Producers
  • Ian B. Morales
    Writer
  • Pau Verdalet
    Writer
  • Jorge Farfán
    Special Effects
  • Marisol Cao
    Music
  • Ezequiel David Urbano
    Music
  • Pau Verdalet
    Post Producer
  • Pau Verdalet
    Editor
  • Ian B. Morales
    Editor
  • Ian B. Morales
    VFX Artist
  • Ian B. Morales
    Colourist
  • Vicente Méndez Saucedo
    Sound design
  • Vicente Méndez Saucedo
    Sound editing
  • Pau Verdalet
    Sound editing
  • Marycarmen García Olagaray
    Voice
  • Laura Camila Mosos
    Writer Voice Off
  • Hamari Estudio
    Recording Studio
  • Pau Verdalet
    Casting Direction
  • Ana Victoria Méndez
    Art Designer
  • Ali Barrlor
    Special Effects Operator
  • Luigi Vázquez
    Production Coordinator
  • Víctor López
    Staff
  • Viridiana Pérez.
    Staff
  • Sebastián Carrasco.
    First photography assistant
  • Marycarmen García Olagaray.
    Production assistant
  • Rya
    Catering
  • Pablo Azar
    Translation in English
  • Diego Orozco
    Translation in English
  • Orlando Merino
    Adviser
  • Reyes Bercini
    Adviser
  • Guillermo González
    Adviser
  • Miguel Ángel Rivera
    Adviser
  • Roberto Fiesco
    Adviser
  • Tonatiuh Martínez
    Adviser
  • Daniela Cruz
    Adviser
  • Héctor Zavala
    Adviser
  • Panchisco Rivera
    Adviser
  • Alexis Rodill
    Adviser
  • Victor Velázquez
    Adviser
  • Manuel López Monroy
    Adviser
  • Flavio González Mello
    Adviser
  • Enrique Greiner
    Adviser
  • Luis Castañeda
    Adviser
  • Aurora Ojeda
    Adviser
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Donde el frío quema
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    17 minutes 44 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 1, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    20,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Mexico
  • Country of Filming:
    Mexico
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.00:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - CUEC
  • Energa Camerimage

    Poland
    November 12, 2022
    International Premiere
    The Student Etudes Competition
Director Biography - Pau Verdalet

Pau Verdalet
Director | Producer | Editor

Born on September 5, 1997 in Campeche, Mexico.

Thesis student at the National School of Cinematographic Arts ENAC, formerly CUEC, in the specialty of Fiction Realization, with which she has been able to develop multiple projects that have received several awards, among which the following short films stand out: "Goodbye Again", "Rest Delirium"; “Breath of the wind” exhibited on the LIFETIME television channel in the United States and Latin America; and "Where Burning Cold Lies", which is currently in post-production.

She was selected to direct the Italian short film “Respira con me” from Castello Errante la Residenza Internazionale del Cinema, Ibermedia scholarship.

Since she was 15 years old, she was co-founder of Paypa Productions, in which she has worked as a director, producer and post-producer, having as an outstanding project the short film in English “Prolonged Silence”, obtaining the signature of SAG AFTRA.

Since she was 14 years old, she has taken a dozen diplomas and extracurricular activities within the cinematographic field, among which the following stand out: "Cinematographic Analysis" with Jorge Ayala Blanco, "Cinefotografía in 16mm" with Mario Luna, "Cinematographic Production" with Patricia Coronado, "Actors Direction" with Ignacio Ortiz, “Cinematographic Script” with Beatriz Novaro, “Animation Workshop” with Paulina Ziolkowska, “Cinematographic Music” with Alejandro Ruiz, “Cinematographic Postproduction” with Antonio Isaac, among others. Thus managing to present her first short film at the National Cinema of Mexico, entitled "Myths of Success", with 15 years of age.

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Director Statement

This short film is an attempt to deepen into the human condition, it aims to share with the viewer a reflection on the need to delve into our past, no matter how painful it may be, as the only way to be able to confront it and recover ourselves .

As filmmakers our responsibility is to give the viewer something not superfluous, and to put on the table situations that happen to all of us.

Cinema has that power of great magnitude to dissolve the line between the real and the dreamlike, having the ability to create a subjective journey of the characters through their environments and their specific circumstances.