THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME WILL BE PRESENTED WITH THE SHORT SPACESHIP

Date	Location	Time	Tickets
Sunday, June 5, 2022	TCL Chinese Theaters Auditorium 4	4:15 PM PDT	BUY TICKETS

West Coast Premiere

The Shape of Things to Come

Directed by V. Checa

Peru | 82 minutes | 2021

In a dystopian city that resembles Lima, Peru, Teo, a twelve year old boy, works with his father Luis maintaining a strange machine meant to generate rain over a severely droughty city. Luis, obsessed with making the machine work, puts the machine at risk in the face of constant embargoes and threats from authorities. Teo, seeking to help his father, gets involved with a gang of young spies led by twin brothers, Raiza and Baca. Teo's new experiences make him question his father's life's purpose, and secrets about the machine come to light.

V. Checa was born in Lima, Peru in 1986. He has directed three short films, "Jauregui", "Perform", and "Louis Trent" (2013 National Short Film Contest). In 2014 he was selected for the Locarno Summer Academy and the Berlinale Talents (Bafici). In 2016, he was selected to participate in the Moulin d'Andé writing residence sponsored by the Center National du Cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC). His first feature film, The Shape of Things to Come, a co-production between Peru, Mexico, Ecuador and Spain, won the Feature Film Production Award from the Ministry of Culture (Dafo) and the Ibero-American Co-production Award (Ibermedia). The project won both post-production project awarded by the Lima 2020 Film Festival, the Spanish distribution award at the Malaga Film Festival, and the post-production award at the Viña del Mar Film Festival.

Type of Film	Feature
Country of Origin	Peru
Year Film Was Completed	2021
Runtime	82 minutes
Film Website	Visit
Social media Handles	@Outsiderpics

Director	V. Checa
Written by	V. Checa
Cinematography	Fergan Chávez Ferrer
Edited by	Miguel de la Barra
Music by	Mueran Humanos, Voz Propia, Ignacio Briceño y Ale Hop, Jinsop, Cadena Nacional
Sound Design	Esteban Brauer
Art Direction	Sandro Angobaldo
Main Cast	Fermando Bacillio, Lorenzo Molina, Paulina Bazan, Jeremi Garcia, Jose Flores