<p>STREAMING EXCLUSIVE: This documentary is an in-depth look at the life and work of Colombian writer Andres Caicedo. Includes Q&amp;A with Director Jorge Navas and Rosario Caicedo. If you have questions for them, post them in the HPLFF Discord server: <a href="https://discord.gg/32EMFkydR">https://discord.gg/32EMFkydR</a> (NOTE: Q&amp;As can not be streamed in the Eventive app. To watch, please log in on a web browser.)</p>


<p>The seventies. In the midst of the Latin American and the magical realism boom, while all writers were seeking to migrate to Barcelona or Paris, all of them eager to find a powerful publishing house, Andrés Caicedo, living in a provincial town in Colombia was writing film scripts adapting stories of that master of horror, H. P. Lovecraft. With these he had the plan to go to Hollywood and sell them to Roger Corman, a famous producer of B movies. His obsessions with Gothic literature, with fate and violence, were the center of his life and his work, and contributed to shape a particular aesthetic universe which helped create what came to be called “Tropical Gothic”. Andrés Caicedo committed suicide at the age of 25, the very same day when he received the first copy of the second novel published while he was alive, Liveforever. Scripts, unfinished novels, plays, short stories, film criticism, and a great deal of correspondence were kept in his trunk. Today he is one of Colombia’s most relevant and forceful writers.</p>

A Ballad For Dead Children

Q&A with Jorge Navas and Rosario Caicedo

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Feature film: A Ballad for Dead Children (Colombia)

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