Ascensión (en)

Ascensión

Selection:

Cinéma en développement 13 / 2018

Director:

Cesar Acevedo

País:

Colombia

Format:

Long-métrage

Tipo:

Fiction

Guionista(s):

Cesar Acevedo

More informations about director

Datos del director:

cesaracevedo@burningblue.com.co

Biografia del director:

Director and screenwriter. His first feature film La Tierra y la Sombra was premiered at the 2015 Cannes Festival’s Critics’ week. The film won four awards in Cannes included the Camera d'or. After that, The film has been presented in more than 40 film festival worldwide and won many national and international awards. Acevedo directed the short films Los Pasos del agua (Cannes 2016) and La Campana

Filmografía principal del director:

1. – La Tierra Y La Sombra (Cannes 2.015) Feature film
2. – Los Pasos Del Agua (Cannes 2.016) Short film
3. – Los Hongos (Locarno 2.014) Feature Film – Co-writer

Nota de intención:

All lives inside of us, the good as good as the bad. For this reason our biggest vertue as human beings transforms in our biggest tragedy : we are free to build this world we carry on in our hearts, a world pictured as our spirits. We have the capacity to destroy but also to create, we can inflict injuries as we can cure them. This film is a love declaration and a prove of faith, a truthful confidence in what is not lost and that we could turn in a better world. It all depends on us.

Sinopsis:

Basilio returns to his old home after many years, only to discover that the humble abode has been consumed by the passage of time. Even so, his Mother (Elmira) has been waiting for him. Separated in life by violence, they understand that they are only being reunited now that they are dead, and thus decide to set off towards heaven in search of the Father and the promised land. This is how Mother and Son, now ghosts, begin a physical and spiritual journey in which they will recreate the story of their family and of the violence they endured, crossing a world devastated by the horrors of war with destroyed villages, processions with countless coffins, rivers turned cemeteries and stories of desolation and death. All of this was caused by Basilio, in life a savage criminal, now condemned to relive over and over the horror of his actions but this time carrying his crippled mother throughout the entire journey. In this empty world where God is present in the silence, they will bear witness to how war not only destroys bodies but also spirits.

Concepto visual:

The background melts the form, this is why our biggest challenge will be to show as rigourously as posible the spiritual plan of the story. It doesn’t only consists in showing a devasted world by the war, but also, and mostly, to create an emotionnal landscape throughout images and sounds, throughout time construction and a rythm axed more on feelings than events. I want to be as realisatic as posible, but I entend reality not as a finality but as a mean to construct meaning, following a central idea : God only exists in silences.

Más informaciones

Objetivos buscados en Cinéma en Développement:

Search of co-production associates, screenwriting workshops and developments funds.

Fecha de rodaje prevista:

2020

Locaciones previstas para la grabación:

Colombie

Presupuesto:

€713,000

Estado de la escritura del proyecto:

First script draft

Productora:

Burning Blue

Biografia del productor:

Diana Bustamante is one of Colombia’s most successful producers and is well-known in the international festival circuit, having produced several films which have screened in various sections at the Cannes Film Festival, including: “Los viajes del viento” by Ciro Guerra, William Vega’s “La Sirga,” “La Playa D.C.” by Juan Andres Arango and “La Tierra Y La Sombra ”. She also is the artistic director of the Cartagena International Film Festival.

Perfil de la productora:

Burning Blue is a colombian film company who has focused its efforts on a cinema of risky bets and self-sustainable schemes, managing to position its films in the most important festivals worldwide. As a result of this work, it has been consolidated as a viable and effective production model, nationally and internationally.

Elementos que quiere añadir:

In Ascension, the concepts of limbo, death and humanity eternal desire for forgiveness are all part of a universe plagued with poetry and an absolutely unique point of view. Ascension poses a very important challenge in regards to cinematic form and representation: the deep, entrenched, and painful framework of mainly rural violence that our country lived through for over 60 years. This will give us a genuine framework, allowing us to write a script that will make smooth transition to the shoot for this challenging yet fascinating project

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