AMALGAMA

Alcira is a peasant woman, whose features bear her pain and sorrow. She lives alone in a peasant house. Henry, shy and demure, comes over to help with trying tasks. Their relationship is strained.

Year: 2019

Premiere Status: US Premiere

Screening in: Shorts Block 1

Genre: Drama

Country: Colombia

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 0:12:53 mins

FILMMAKER

Director

Alejandra Wills

Alejandra is a filmmaker and scriptwriter born in Bogotá, Colombia. She graduated with honors from the undergrad Film & TV program at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, 2014. Then she decided to pursue a Film Master Degree in Scriptwriting at the International Film and TV School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, where she graduated in 2015. Her short film Amalgama won the Proimagenes Grant for Short Film Production, Colombia 2016 and had its international premiere at Huesca International Film Festival. Currently, she is writing three feature films, one personal, the other two by commission.