Los Nadie (The Nobodies)

by Juan Sebastián Mesa

Synopsis

Camilo, Mechas, Manu, Ana and Pipa are five friends who live a non-conforming life in Medellin. Their punkish lifestyle is at the same time a protest and a renewed discourse addressing and resisting the cultural limitations of their time.

Music, street art and friendship are their weapons of resistance, hoping for a rite of passage that could transform them into someone else.

Specifications

Colombia – 2016 – HD – 84 min – 1:1.85 – 5.1 – Spanish

written & directed by

Juan Sebastian Mesa

Inspired by the poem of Eduardo Galeano. The nobodies: nobody’s children, owners of nothing.

Original title

LOS NADIE

Produced by

Alexander Arbelaez

Jose Manuel Duque

Crew

DOP: David Correa Franco

Art Director: Mary Luz Cardona

Sound: Alejandro Escobar and Daniel Vasquez

Editor: Isabel Otálvaro and Juan Sebastián Mesa

Music (BSO): O.D.I.O.

Cast

Maria Angélica Puerta

Luis Felipe Álzate

Maria Camila Castrillón

Alejandro Pérez Ceferino

Esteban Alcaraz

Festivals & Awards

Opening film at the 56 Cartagena IFF (FICCI), Colombia
International premiere: 31 Venice Intl Film Critic’s Week (2016) – Audience Award for Best Feature
Listopad Minsk, Belarus – Youth on the March Competition
Huelva, Spain – New Directors Competition
Mar del Plata, Argentina – Panorama
Rec Tarragona, Spain – Panorama
La Habana, Cuba – Official Competition
Black Movie, Switzerland – Audience Award
Goteborg, New Voices
Belfast FF, Ireland
Toulouse CinéLatino, Competition- Best film Award – Prix Coup de Coeur
NY Colombian FF, USA
Cine Latino, Belgium
Chicago Latino, USA
Panorama Colombia, Germany

Filmography

2013: Kalashnikov (Short film, 30′)

2016: Los Nadie – 1st feature length