Las Maravillas - The Wonders
New York City, New York | Film Short
Drama, LGBTQ
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.
Las Maravillas - The Wonders
New York City, New York | Film Short
Drama, LGBTQ
1 Campaigns | Guayas, Ecuador
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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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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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Other ways to help
Follow our campaign on Seed & Spark. It's free, and when we reach a certain number of followers we'll have access to a bunch of perks, products and services that could help us finish the film.
Support us! Stay connected and spread the word.
Follow and share our posts on
Instagram : @LasMaravillas_shortfilm
Facebook : Las Maravillas Short Film https://www.facebook.com/Las-Maravillas-Short-Film-106660775415524
Twitter : @lasmaravillas_shortfilm https://twitter.com/LasShortfilm
You can say this :
Contribute and help Leo reconcile with his dying father, #LasMaravillasShortFilm , Support our campaign at www.seedandspark.com/fund/las-maravillas-the-wonders
Send this campaign to everyone you know who you know will love our film as much as we do! Send our instagram profile, share on your stories, give us like and share also via Facebook, you can also send an email, anything you can do to spread the word about our film will absolutely help.
Join us at @lasmaravillas_shortfilm and let's do this together.
Anything is possible!
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Wow, you rock! Thank you so much for supporting our movie, may all your support be returned to you 70 times 7!
We will never forget your help and will carry you forever in our hearts!
With immense love, the crew of Las Maravillas !
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
RENTAL OF CAMERA EQUIPMENT AND LENSES
Costs $3,800
¡The mystical and queer world of Las Maravillas requires a lot of visual poetry !
CREW HOSTING, CATERING & TRANSPORTATION
Costs $3,000
To get to the mine we need to go a long way from the city. ¡Help us to get there !
SOUNDTRACK
Costs $2,000
¿What would life be without music? ¿What would a movie be without music?
DISTRIBUTION
Costs $1,111
Now that we've told our story, help us help the whole world see it!
Share this update!
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- The Team
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Mission Statement
The Story
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.
¿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 :)
Other ways to help
Follow our campaign on Seed & Spark. It's free, and when we reach a certain number of followers we'll have access to a bunch of perks, products and services that could help us finish the film.
Support us! Stay connected and spread the word.
Follow and share our posts on
Instagram : @LasMaravillas_shortfilm
Facebook : Las Maravillas Short Film https://www.facebook.com/Las-Maravillas-Short-Film-106660775415524
Twitter : @lasmaravillas_shortfilm https://twitter.com/LasShortfilm
You can say this :
Contribute and help Leo reconcile with his dying father, #LasMaravillasShortFilm , Support our campaign at www.seedandspark.com/fund/las-maravillas-the-wonders
Send this campaign to everyone you know who you know will love our film as much as we do! Send our instagram profile, share on your stories, give us like and share also via Facebook, you can also send an email, anything you can do to spread the word about our film will absolutely help.
Join us at @lasmaravillas_shortfilm and let's do this together.
Anything is possible!
Wow, you rock! Thank you so much for supporting our movie, may all your support be returned to you 70 times 7!
We will never forget your help and will carry you forever in our hearts!
With immense love, the crew of Las Maravillas !
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
RENTAL OF CAMERA EQUIPMENT AND LENSES
Costs $3,800
¡The mystical and queer world of Las Maravillas requires a lot of visual poetry !
CREW HOSTING, CATERING & TRANSPORTATION
Costs $3,000
To get to the mine we need to go a long way from the city. ¡Help us to get there !
SOUNDTRACK
Costs $2,000
¿What would life be without music? ¿What would a movie be without music?
DISTRIBUTION
Costs $1,111
Now that we've told our story, help us help the whole world see it!
Share this update!
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