Completed - SPANISH - Thriller, Road movie, Documentary, First film - 76 minutes
The search for the ghost that filmed the enigmatic and unique cult film of Uruguayan cinema. A film that looks like a fake documentary, but it is not.
Year of production : 2021 Director(s) : Emilio SILVA TORRES Cast : Alfonso TORT, Roxana BLANCO Producer(s) : Virginia BOGLIOLO (TARKIOFILM), Juan ALVAREZ NEME (TARKIOFILM)
"Act of Violence in a Young Journalist" is a film shot and released on VHS in 1989. A mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by strange theories about its creator, Manuel Lamas, about whom nothing is known.The documentary sets out to unveil the enigma that exists about Lamas and his work, chasing the traces of a ghost through his lost VHS cassettes. Along the way, the director becomes involved in a spiral that dissolves the boundaries between reality and fiction.
Country(ies) : URUGUAY, ARGENTINA
Ventana Sur 2020BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2021 American Official Competition