RTF Exchange Student, Dir. Marianela Vega Oroza, 2002
Synopsis:
“Away” mixes video and animation in an intimate journal that explores the process of adjusting to a new city and the ideas, feelings and conflicts that arise upon contact with this new space. TRT = 12 min.
2007 screenings:
Center of Contemporary Culture, Spain
2005 screenings:
Huesca Film Festival, Spain
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2004 screenings:
Week of Experimental Cinema in Madrid, Spain
First National Biennial of Film and Video, Peru
2003 screenings:
Second Showcase of Peruvian Independent Documentary, Peru
Cinematexas International Film Festival, USA
VII Latin American Film Festival, Peru
Ten Under Ten Documentary Showcase
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Director bio:
Marianela Vega Oroza is a Peruvian filmmaker currently pursuing an MFA in Film production at the University of Texas at Austin. She got her Bachelor Degree in Audiovisual Communication at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. As a director, she approaches documentary from a personal point of view. Topics like identity, memory and family are constantly present in her work. Her film Ausencia (2002), as well as her short documentaries “Away” (2002) and “Distancia” (2004), have been screened at film and video festivals in countries such as Spain, Ecuador, USA, Germany, Mexico and Peru. These three films were screened at the Week of Experimental Film in Madrid, 2005. In August 2007, her film “Conversations II” received the Best Short Film award given by CONACINE (Peruvian Film Commission). She was recently selected by the Center of Contemporary Culture in Barcelona for their program “One Month, One Artist.”
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