MILLY
Announced - Musical Feature Film
MILLY QUEZADA is born in the 1950s in a country suffering under the cruel dictatorship of Leonidas Trujillo, in the 1960s she leaves for the United States along with her brothers fleeing the civil war that followed. As a teenager, in the colorful streets of Washington Heights she discovers her musical talent and enters a world filled with men, nightclubs and alcohol, in which she has her three children, overcomes the death of her husband and gets the courage to launch her solo career. Despite the prejudices of the time and numerous challenges, she becomes the most important female interpreter of merengue music and a worldwide icon known as the Queen of Merengue.
AIRE
Post -production - Feature Film
Sci-Fi
It is the year 2147, pollution and a virus that has left men sterile have reduced the world population to extinction level. TANIA is a conservation biologist trying to avoid the disappearance of her species with the help of VIDA, an Artificial Intelligence system, but after the arrival of AZARIAS, an ingenious traveler with a hidden past, the tension in this ménage à trois will be as toxic as the world they live in.
Post Production
1rst Prize TIFF The Big Pitch.
Official Selection BLOOD WINDOW - Ventana Sur 2020
Pre-selection Hubert Bals Fund
2020
Best Director Soberano Awards
Best Feature Peachtree Intl. Film Festival
Opening Night Film Global Film Festival
Official Selection HBO NY Latino Film Festival
Opening Night Film Santander Intl. Film Festival
Official Selection Miami Film Festival
Official Selection Omaha Film Festival
Official Selection Intl. Film Festival Ottawa
Official Selection Female Eye Film Festival
Official Selection Atlanta Film Festival
Best Director Soberano Awards
Best Actor / Best Actress Soberanos Awards
DR’s Official Representative Oscars® 2021
2018
Official Selection Miami Intl. Film Festival
Official Selection HBO NY Latino Film Festival
Best Actor Iris Awards
Best Director La Silla Awards
Best Actress Awards La Silla Awards
Best Supporting Actress La Silla Awards
Best Theme Song La Silla Awards
Best Production Design La Silla Awards
2013
Official Selection Toronto Intl. Film Festival
Official Selection Miami Intl. Film Festival
Opening Night Film Trinidad Intl. Film Festival
DR’s Official Representative Oscars® 2014
2011
Audience Choice Award 27th Chicago Latino Film Festival
Best Fiction Film San José Intl. Film Festival
Audience Choice Award 4º Global Film Festival
Official Selection Shanghai Intl. Film Festival
Official Selection HBO Latino Film Festival
Best Director Casandra Awards
Best Actress Casandra Awards
DR’s Official Representative Oscars® 2012