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Shorts Program 1 includes BEFORE MADRID, CONSUELO, DEAD ENDERS, DETOX, FLORES DEL OTRO PATIO, HOT LATIN NIGHTS AT THE GRANADA, HOW TO LASSO and MONARCAS

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Thursday, June 1, 2023 TCL Chinese Theaters Auditorium 4 6:30 PM PDT BUY TICKETS

US Premiere

Before Madrid

Directed by Ilén Juambeltz & Nicolás Botana

Uruguay | 20 min | 2022

Micaela and Santiago are a teenage couple living in a small town in Uruguay. They are very determined to have their first time, or at least try to...

Micaela and Santiago, a teenage couple from a small Uruguayan town, try to have their first time having sex the day before one of them has to leave the country. They will struggle against their own inexperience and the obstacles of their town and the people that live in it to achieve their goal.
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Nicolás Botana (Uruguay, 1986) is a screenwriter, director and Film Editor. Started working as a film director, shooting fiction in 2008. Later on he started working as an Editor for important local production companies. By 2013 he started working for a content platform directing and editing.




Ilén Juambeltz (Uruguay, 1994) is a screenwriter and filmmaker who graduated from the Filmmaking Career at ECU. She has directed and exhibited several award-winning short films. In 2021 she directed one of the stories of the international Netflix docu-series Stories of a generation with Pope Francis
Type of Film Short
Country of Origin Uruguay
Year Film Was Completed 2022
Runtime 20 min
Social media Handles @dulce.cine, @ilen_jalumbe, @nicobot7, @fakka.nda
Director Ilén Juambeltz & Nicolás Botana
Created by Ilén Juambeltz & Nicolás Botana
Written by Ilén Juambeltz & Nicolás Botana
Cinematography Elisa Barbosa
Edited by Alexia Obeide & Carmela Marichal
Music by Florencia Gamba
Sound Design VIVACE POST | Andrés Costa & Claudia Píriz
Art Direction Agustina Pérez
Main Cast Agustina Castaño, Alejo Martínez

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