{"id":24323,"date":"2022-01-16T14:15:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T21:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/?post_type=film&p=24323"},"modified":"2022-01-16T14:15:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T21:15:34","slug":"tundra","status":"publish","type":"film","link":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/film\/tundra\/","title":{"rendered":"Tundra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Walfrido Larduet, a lonely electrical inspector, dreams of the Red Woman, whose image persists and becomes an obsession. Something tells him she is near. Over the course of a day, Walfrido will follow her trail as he travels through the suburbs of an infested city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director Biography –\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Luis Aparicio<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Jos\u00e9 Luis Aparicio Ferrera (Cuba, 1994), independent filmmaker, critic and curator. B.A. in Film and Television Directing from Cuba\u2019s University of the Arts (ISA). His graduation short-film El Secadero \/ Dryland (2019) won the Best Fiction Award at Panam\u00e1\u2019s Bannab\u00e1Fest and Honorable Mention at Cinema Ciudad de M\u00e9xico, as well as the Audience and Best Production Awards in Cuba\u2019s Muestra Joven. It was also selected for several film festivals in Latin America and the U.S., including Seattle Latino Film Festival, Guatemala\u2019s Festival \u00cdcaro and Chile\u2019s BioBioCine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His medium-length documentary Sue\u00f1os al pairo \/ Dreams adrift (2020) was censored by the Cuban government due to its criticism of the regime\u2019s violent history. It had its world premiere in Argentine\u2019s BAFICI and has been selected for several European festivals like Germany\u2019s up-and-coming International Film Festival Hannover, Spain\u2019s Festival Internacional de Cine por la Memoria Democr\u00e1tica (FESCIMED) and Belgium\u2019s MAX Diversity Film Festival. It won the Best Cultural Representation Award at Argentine\u2019s Festival Internacional de Cine Austral (FICA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His latest fiction short-film Tundra (2021) had its world premiere in Curta Cinema \u2013 R\u00edo de Janeiro International Short Film Festival and its North American premiere in the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019 he was named amongst the \u201cOne hundred latinos that create and inspire a better future\u201d by Colombia\u2019s Avianca magazine. As a film critic he created the Cine Cubano en Cuarentena \/ Cuban Cinema in Quarantine (CCC) initiative, a collaborative effort aimed at the preservation, research and exhibition of Cuban cinematic legacy. He has written about cinema and arts for magazines like Rialta, Hypermedia, El Estornudo, IPS Cuba, ADN Cuba and Cine Cubano. He also participated with three articles in the encyclopedia A Cuban Cinema Companion (2019, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He worked as a programmer of the 2nd Mexico City Independent Film Festival and currently performs as head curator of Cuba\u2019s INSTAR Film Festival. For INSTAR (Institute of Artivism \u201cHannah Arendt\u201d, art institution founded by Cuban artist Tania Bruguera) he\u2019s also curating the exhibition Land without images: the absent in Cuban Cinema for 2022\u2019s documenta15 (Kassel). He was a member of the Mezcal Jury at the 33rd Guadalajara International Film Festival and participated in the 3rd International Film Residency \u201cCastello Errante\u201d, organized in Italy by Occhi di Giove and Rome\u2019s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. He\u2019s currently developing two feature films: the creative documentary El mar \/ The sea and the fiction project Ismael.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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