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Viviana Gómez Echeverry | Colombia | 2016 | 87 min | Creole, Spanish | e.s.
Keyla’s father has pirate blood, but that also applies to almost everyone else on the Columbian island of Providencia in the Caribbean – once home to the base of the notorious pirate Henry Morgan. A natural paradise that tourists fall for as they also do for the inhabitants. The population is a mix of buccaneers, the slaves they brought with them and other wanderers. This is the place Keyla waits for her father. He disappeared suddenly at sea, leaving no trace. Whilst waiting, Keyla receives an unexpected visitor in the shape of her Spanish ex-stepmother and her half-brother whom she hasn’t seen for well over a decade.
In her feature debut, filmmaker Viviana Gómez Echeverry shows Keyla slowly allowing her family back into her life. It’s a story about the strength of roots and the collision between romance and reality. Moreover, it’s a declaration of love to a beautiful island that Echeverry captures in all its complexity.
Place: CINEMA 5
Date: 7 April 2017
Time: 19:45
Duration: 1:06
Place: CINEMA 5
Date: 8 April 2017
Time: 12:45
Duration: 1:03
Place: CINEMA 5
Date: 9 April 2017
Time: 16:15
Duration: 1:06
Year in
Festival
2017
Director
Viviana Gómez Echeverry
Camera
Mauricio Vidal
Cast
Elsa Whitaker
Sebastián Enciso Salamanca
Mercedes Salazar
Felipe Cabeza
Norvel Walters
Anthony Assaf Howard
Adriana Whitaker Torres
Country
Colombia
Editor
Ximena Alejandra Franco
Nicolás Servide Staffolani
Language
Creole
Spanish
Length
87 min
Music
Daniel Velasco
Producer
Raquel Imedio García
Production Company
Old Providence School
Production Design
Carmen Gómez Vega
Sales
Cineplex
Scenario
Viviana Gómez Echeverry
Sound Design
Carolina Ortiz Cerón
Year of Production
2016
Website
Viviana Gómez ECHEVERRY (Colombia) studied social communication at university in Bogota. In Spain, she specialized in cinematography. After completing her studies, Echeverry worked as a camerawoman, made short films and co-directed the documentary Life Is Sacred (2014). She also lectures at university in Colombia. Keyla is her fictional debut.
Filmography
Trópico exótico/Exotic Tropical (2012, short), 16th Birthday (2013, short), Life Is Sacred (2014, doc, co-dir), Keyla (2016)