Must Be Painful

This meta student film illustrates the trials and tribulations of being a film student.

En el río

Trotín Troteras is the disinterested witness of the absurd situations lived first by a lecturer and then by a soldier with an umbrella, which opens when it stops raining and closes when it rains…

An ex-soldier encounters many dangers in the small town he lives in.

A group of students finds themselves in an academic environment, which hides a terrifiying danger. Should they stay? Where to expect a menace from? What would happen if they try to leave? Students are forced to find it all out by themselves, without getting any hints.

The abusive professional relationship between Luis, an intransigent painter, and Ágata, his traumatized model, takes an unexpected turn when she finds a mysterious self-portrait of him…

A woman looks out of a window.

The boredom of a young middle-class woman at home a Sunday afternoon. Not to be confused with Carlos Saura's short of the same name produced in 1957.

After unknowingly cheating death, a teenager meets the grim reaper, who gives him 52 hours to live.

LETTERS, a dramatic historical fiction written by Mrs. Evelyn Merritt in 2010, tells the story of U.S. soldiers and their loved ones through their correspondence beginning with the Civil War and ending with the War in Iraq. Sahuarita High School students adapted the Readers’ Theatre play into a movie, reasoning the student actors would be kept safe from Covid-19 by filming them individually, and afterward the footage could be reassembled into a screenplay following the original dialogue.

The residents of a flat building are completely self-absorbed and never look out their window to see a chicken frequently fluttering by. The chicken has a nest on the roof where she hatches her eggs. One day the eggs get stolen.

A social worker recounts the case of Ella Jackson, a girl who sees a man standing behind her in the mirror

Los opositores

A man with an umbrella emerges from his grave to be momentarily reunited with his lost loved one.

Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.

This ode to standup comedy and overall antisocial, student film, headlined the 2002 film program at Long Beach.

During biology class, the young Pedro accidentally traps his middle finger in a hole in his desk. The case takes on unexpected proportions.

In order to prevent further self harming, a young woman is forced to live in a new synthetic body, and must navigate intimacy in a physical form she fundamentally feels disconnected from.

Madrid, Spain. A mutilated man, a war veteran, walks, leaning on a crutch, through the stadium of the Ciudad Universitaria, a place that still preserves in walls and buildings the terrifying traces of one of the bloodiest battles of the Spanish Civil War.

A student filmmaker begins to suspect one of his actors is keeping a grave secret.