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 – First feature
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
- FICD, El Desierto FF, Mexico
- Ciné Latino, France
- Costa Rica FF
- Raindance FF, UK
- Québec City FF, Canada – First Feature Film Award
- AFI – Latin American FF 2017, USA – Official Selection
- Filmar Geneva 2017, Switzerland
- Dominican Republic FF 2018
- ¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American FF (Manchester), UK, 2018
Filmography
2013: Kalashnikov (Short film, 30′)
2016: Los Nadie – 1st feature length