LIVING BODIES - EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM
Living Bodies is an experimental documentary short film that seeks, through the sensoriality of images and sounds, to vindicate the empowerment of female bodies and to highlight the harmful stereotypes to which girls, young women and women in Honduras are exposed. At the same time, it seeks to make visible the high statistics of violence affecting the country.
CURRENTLY IN FESTIVALS
This work was produced within the framework of the Second Laboratory of Film Creation by and for Women. Thanks to the Women's Film Exhibition, the Guatemalan Association of Audiovisual and Cinematography -AGACINE- in conjunction with the Cultural Center of Spain in Guatemala.
Directed & Produced by Andrea Arauz
Production Assistant by María José Arauz & Jessica Guifarro
Cinematography by Nohely Floritza
Camera & Lightning Assistant by Charlotte Murray
Video Editing by Andrea Arauz
Sound Design & Sound Post-Production by Carlo Herrchen - Fish Rain Sounds & Skai Peñalva - Skai Studio
Co-writer on the calls by Hizzel Hernández
Graphic Design by Lucía Castro
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Laboratory Coordination: Pamela Guinea
Coordination assistants: Lucía Reinoso y Camila Urrutia
Laboratory Advisors:
Luisa González-Reiche
Elena Escura
Alexandra Latishev
Daniela Sagone
Liliana Villaseñor
Isabella Gálvez Peñafiel
Ana Bustamante
Festivals Selections & Exhibitions:
2023 - Latinamerika I Fokus (Suecia)
2023 - Linz International Short Film Festival (Austria)
2023 - Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival
2023 - Resistimos: Festival de cine documental (México)
2023 - Philadelphia Latino Film Festival (US)
2023 - Porto Femme – International Film Festival (Portugal)
2023 - 6th International Women Filmmakers Festival - Turkey (Winner on the Experimental Category Jury’s Special Award)
2022 - 13th Goalmakers Annual Conference og Global Washington
2022 - 43 Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano - Cuba (Poster Competition)
2022 - Festival Internacional de Cine Austral - Argentina
2022 - Festival Internacional de Cine en el Desierto - México
2022 - Festival Internacional de Cine con Medios Alternativos - México (Finalist)
2022 - Central America Donors Forum in Honduras for Seattle International Foundation (Private Exhibition)
2022 - 14 Hayah Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de Panamá
2022 - Festival Internacional de Cine de Oriente - Colombia
2022 - Das Mittelamerikanische Film Festival / Ciclo de Cine Centroamericano - Austria
2022 - Festival Internacional Cine en Femenino - Colombia
2022 - Festival Ícaro Honduras
2022 - Exhibition “FRONTEIRAS” at Villa Mandaçaia - São Paulo, Brasil
2022 - Women’s Film Festival – Demakijaż - Poland (Semi-finalist)
2022 - Toronto Latin American Film Festival - Canada
2022 - Exhibition in Fundação Cultural BADESC - Brasil
2022 - Prague International Indie Film Festival - Czech Republic (Honorable Mentions)
2022 - Exhibition of Films Made by Women - Guatemala
Exhibitions in Honduras
Date: September 5, 2023
Exhibition in the Police Technical Institute in Comayagua, Honduras. More than 600 Honduran men and women were able to see the short film. The director invited me to make the new generations of police officers aware of the need to be the change in the streets and to help reduce gender violence in the country.
Date: July 7, 2023
Exhibition in Ciudad Mujer for young girls between 12 and 18 years old. With the support of Secretariat of Cultures, Arts and Heritage.
Date: 8 of March, 2023.
Living Bodies was part of the opening of the V Women's Film Festival " Alicia's Dream". It is organized by the Honduran Women Filmmakers Collective.
The name Alice is in commemoration of Alice Guy. The first filmmaker in the history of cinema to create both short and feature films with a narrative. She was invisibilized for many decades in the history of cinema because she was a woman.
Date: 7 of March, 2023
I was able to be part of Ciudad Mujer's event with "Living Bodies " to commemorate 8M, International Women's Day, with a lot of art.
Date: 28 of February, 2023.
Thanks to the support of the Center for Art and Culture of the UNAH we were able to exhibit "Living Bodies" at the San Isidro Market. The women at their stalls helped me in 2021 with their testimonies to create the calls for my short film.
Date: 26 of January, 2023
Exhibition in "Ciudad Mujer" (Tegucigalpa) in commemoration of the national day of the Honduran woman
DATE: 24 of January, 2023
Exhibition at the national police of Tegucigalpa in commemoration of the national day of the Honduran woman.
Date: 20 of January, 2023
Exhibition at the Cultural Center of Spain in Tegucigalpa.
