DIRECCIONES - DIRECTOR/EDITOR

SHORT DOCUMENTARY / 14 MINS / COSTA RICA / 2023

In Costa Rica there are no street addresses. Or they may exist in some government office, but the people have steadily resisted any effort to develop a centralized system. Instead, an address contains a series of directions in reference to various landmarks. In this film, a Costa Rican woman who has always felt a pressing anxiety by this lack of order tries to understand its origins. In doing so she discovers a larger story about human memory and place.

Awards

• San Francisco Film Festival- Winner, Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Short

• Big Sky Documentary Film Festival- Nominated, Best Mini Doc

• Athens International Film and Video Festival- Winner, Research Award

• Mountain Film Festival- Honorable Mention, Best Documentary Short

• Guanajuato International Film Festival- Nominated, Best Documentary Short

• Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival- Honorable Mention, Best Short Film

Screenings

• Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, January 2023 | World Premiere

• Flickerfest International Short Film Festival- Sydney, Australia, January 2023

• Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Missoula, Montana, February 2023

• Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland, March 2023 | European Premiere

• San Diego Latino Film Festival, San Diego, California, March 2023

• Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, April 2023

• San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, California, April 2023

• Telluride Mountain Film Festival, Telluride, Colorado, May 2023

• Rooftop Film Series, Brooklyn, New York, June 2023

• Guanajuato International Film Festival, Guanajuato, México, July 2023

• Salute Your Shorts Film Festival, Los Angeles, California, July 2023

• Crested Butte International Film Festival, Crested Butte, Colorado, September 2023

• Festival Internacional de Cortometraje de México, La Ciudad De México, México, September 2023

• 16th Annual Science New Wave Festival, New York City, New York October 2023

• Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival, Toronto, Canada, November 2023

• New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2023

• DOC NYC, New York City, New York, November 2023

• Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine, November 2023