The old miner Tiberio is dying and his son Leo, whom he does not accept for being homosexual, returns to Las Maravillas, his mining town to say goodbye. Through the etheric of death, love and desire, Clarita, a trans shaman, will teach them that we are more than what we can see.
The old miner Tiberio is dying and his son Leo, whom he does not accept for being homosexual, returns to Las Maravillas, his mining town to say goodbye. Through the etheric of death, love and desire, Clarita, a trans shaman, will teach them that we are more than what we can see.
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Mission Statement
LAS MARAVILLAS navigates the pulse of homoerotic desire, the indomitable nature of death, spirituality and shamanism. It delves into the family conflicts of LGBTQ+ people around the construction of masculinity and homophobia in a mining town, reflecting the social context of Ecuador and the world.About The Project
Teaser Las Maravillas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=414y2jkk-fQ
DIRECTOR´S NOTE
"Las Maravillas is an x-ray of my personal, territorial and social world. Growing up in a mining and rural area of southern Ecuador, deeply marked my point of view about the masculine, the queer, the shamanic/esoteric aspects of this story.
I am interested in exploring how the idea of masculinity is constructed and how it influences the creation of the stereotype of the macho, of what it means to be a man. Within all this systematization of the masculine in macho societies like mine, homoeroticism and homosexuality flow underground, like gold in the mines. These secret, inevitable and etheric pulses are denied and hidden, and they converge as a metaphor in this story, because they inhabit what is not seen, but beat and exist as the spirit itself, the soul, the erotic and the supernatural.
In Latin America, in Ecuador, there is a strong ancestral shamanic universe, where reality and fiction are lost in an invisible frontier, where magic is the most real thing in the world. Las Maravillas is born from this magical realism where everything coexists and has spirit: desire, life and death.
The story uses this magical, fertile and fertile ground to observe with a sensitive but no less critical and questioning look, the family problems about sexual identity and masculinity in rural and mining areas, which derive from a deep machismo.
Las Maravillas represents and gives voice to the little or no Queer Cinema being made in Ecuador, being a pioneer project in its nature, theme and stylistic proposal.
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¿Where is the root of my sexual identity? ¿Where does death take us? ¿How were we taught to say goodbye?We love life and fear death. That is also where this script is born, in death, in that search for answers about loss, both physical and spiritual. In the path of transformation. We are a spirit that inhabits a physical body, from that point of view, death can only be the beginning of life."
MOVIES THAT INSPIRE AND ARE A GREAT REFERENCE FOR LAS MARAVILLAS
I have chosen these films because they reflect both the rural, magical and masculine world that inhabits Las Maravillas. The magical and docu/fiction narrative of Apitchapong in Tropical Malady and the machismo and masculine world that Claire Dennis shows us in Beau Travail, together with the homoeroticism of Derek Jarman in Sebastiane; make the short film takes a strong inspiration and opens its own narrative look through an honest cinematographic experience with its own point of view.
Tropical Malady - 2004, a film by Apitchapong Weerasethakul
Beau Travail -1998, a film by Claire Dennis
Sebastiane - 1979, a film by Derek Jarman
FINANCIAL NEEDS :
Making queer auteur films in Ecuador requires a lot of faith, love, trust and help. We believe in the soul of our short film, help us to give it a physical body by filming it.
RENTAL OF CAMERA EQUIPMENT AND LENSES $3,800
CREW HOSTING, CATERING & TRANSPORTATION $3,000
POST PRODUCTION & VFX $1,200
SOUNDTRACK $2,000
DISTRIBUTION $1,111
Included in the $11,111 we raised are also all of the film production costs for the shoot itself, including all of COVID's safety plans and the protocols we put in place to keep our cast and crew safe. We are a safe and COVID-free crew :)
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With immense love, the crew of Las Maravillas !
Incentives
$10
10 CARAT GOLD OR MORE
- Greeting and mention of thanks in our social networks for your contribution :) - Saludo y mención de agradecimiento en nuestras redes sociales por tu contribución :)
$25
$ 25 CARAT GOLD OR MORE
- Personalized Digital Postcard of Las Maravillas + + All the incentives mentioned above. :)
- Postal digital personalizada de Las Maravillas + Todos los incentivos mencionados anteriormente. :)
$50
50 CARAT GOLD OR MORE
- Name in the credits of the short film + + All the incentives mentioned above :)
- Nombre en los créditos del cortometraje + Todos los incentivos mencionados anteriormente. :)
$100
100 CARAT GOLD OR MORE
- Kit of 3 postcards of the short film (digital and physical delivery) + All the incentives mentioned above :)- Kit de 3 postales del cortometraje (entrega digital y física) + Todos los incentivos mencionados anteriormente. :)
$300
300 CARAT GOLD OR MORE
- 1 Personalized digital letter from Leo with a prediction for your future + All the incentives mentioned above. :)- 1 Carta digital personalizada de Leo con una predicción para tu futuro + Todos los incentivos mencionados anteriormente. :)
$600
600 CARAT GOLD OR MORE
- Associate Producer Credit
- 1 Poster (physical and digital delivery)
- Invitation to the digital premiere of the short film
- 1 Las Maravillas T-shirt
- 1 Quartz pendant from Leo's mine.
- 1 scented candle in the shape of a gold ingot + All the incentives mentioned above. :)- Crédito de Productxr Asociadx
- 1 Póster (entrega física y digital)
- Invitación al estreno digital del cortometraje
- 1 Camiseta de Las Maravillas
- 1 Colgante de cuarzo de la mina de Leo.
- 1 Vela aromática en forma de lingote de oro + Todos los incentivos mencionados anteriormente. :)$1,000
1000 CARAT GOLD OR MORE
- Executive Producer Credit- Invitation to the premiere of the short film (does not include transportation to the premiere, nor travel expenses, only the invitation).
- Leo's extended surprise prediction for the future, including personalized decorative artwork (physical and digital delivery)
- 3 Magical Rituals of Leo: presented in decorative illustration with the description of how to perform each ritual: abundance, love and health (physical delivery)
- 1 bag with magical quartz and precious stones from the mine of Leo + All the incentives mentioned above. :)- Crédito de Productor Ejecutivo
- Invitación al estreno del cortometraje (no incluye el transporte al estreno, ni los gastos de viaje, sólo la invitación).
- Predicción sorpresa extendida de Leo para el futuro, incluye Ilustración decorativa personalizada (entrega física y digital)
- 3 Rituales mágicos de Leo: presentados en ilustración decorativa con la descripción de cómo realizar cada ritual: abundancia, amor y salud (entrega física)
- 1 bolsa con cuarzos mágicos y piedras preciosas de la mina de Leo + Todos los incentivos mencionados anteriormente. :) -
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$10
10 CARAT GOLD OR MORE
- Greeting and mention of thanks in our social networks for your contribution :) - Saludo y mención de agradecimiento en nuestras redes sociales por tu contribución :)
$25
$ 25 CARAT GOLD OR MORE
- Personalized Digital Postcard of Las Maravillas + + All the incentives mentioned above. :)
- Postal digital personalizada de Las Maravillas + Todos los incentivos mencionados anteriormente. :)
$50
50 CARAT GOLD OR MORE
- Name in the credits of the short film + + All the incentives mentioned above :)
- Nombre en los créditos del cortometraje + Todos los incentivos mencionados anteriormente. :)
$100
100 CARAT GOLD OR MORE
- Kit of 3 postcards of the short film (digital and physical delivery) + All the incentives mentioned above :)- Kit de 3 postales del cortometraje (entrega digital y física) + Todos los incentivos mencionados anteriormente. :)
$300
300 CARAT GOLD OR MORE
- 1 Personalized digital letter from Leo with a prediction for your future + All the incentives mentioned above. :)- 1 Carta digital personalizada de Leo con una predicción para tu futuro + Todos los incentivos mencionados anteriormente. :)
$600
600 CARAT GOLD OR MORE
- Associate Producer Credit
- 1 Poster (physical and digital delivery)
- Invitation to the digital premiere of the short film
- 1 Las Maravillas T-shirt
- 1 Quartz pendant from Leo's mine.
- 1 scented candle in the shape of a gold ingot + All the incentives mentioned above. :)- Crédito de Productxr Asociadx
- 1 Póster (entrega física y digital)
- Invitación al estreno digital del cortometraje
- 1 Camiseta de Las Maravillas
- 1 Colgante de cuarzo de la mina de Leo.
- 1 Vela aromática en forma de lingote de oro + Todos los incentivos mencionados anteriormente. :)$1,000
1000 CARAT GOLD OR MORE
- Executive Producer Credit- Invitation to the premiere of the short film (does not include transportation to the premiere, nor travel expenses, only the invitation).
- Leo's extended surprise prediction for the future, including personalized decorative artwork (physical and digital delivery)
- 3 Magical Rituals of Leo: presented in decorative illustration with the description of how to perform each ritual: abundance, love and health (physical delivery)
- 1 bag with magical quartz and precious stones from the mine of Leo + All the incentives mentioned above. :)- Crédito de Productor Ejecutivo
- Invitación al estreno del cortometraje (no incluye el transporte al estreno, ni los gastos de viaje, sólo la invitación).
- Predicción sorpresa extendida de Leo para el futuro, incluye Ilustración decorativa personalizada (entrega física y digital)
- 3 Rituales mágicos de Leo: presentados en ilustración decorativa con la descripción de cómo realizar cada ritual: abundancia, amor y salud (entrega física)
- 1 bolsa con cuarzos mágicos y piedras preciosas de la mina de Leo + Todos los incentivos mencionados anteriormente. :) - Updates
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