28th San Diego Latino Film Festival

Frontera Filmmakers Narratives Shorts Program

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11 films + livestream in package
Anxxiedad en tiempos de Covid
With COVID-19 everywhere, Javier's anxiety levels increase, taking him and his mental health to its limit.
Otro año sin ti
Guillermo is a successful but solitary young man who is struggling to overcome the anniversary of his father’s death. However, our protagonist is about to receive a touching and unexpected gift when he decides to go out for some dinner and buy a cheesecake from a street vendor.
Cochi
Al, a 12-year-old boy finds himself trapped in an inhospitable world after the departure of a loved one. Al will seek to heal his heart to see color in life again and be motivated to continue.
Las flores que no puedo ver
Dalia is the youngest member of a family that experiences love in a different way, roots grow within them. Dalia seems to have her first encounter with love as well as her unconventional way of experiencing it.
Red Drops
A young socially-anxious guy, Daniel, accidentally takes LSD while attending an improv comedy club with his wanna-be drug dealer friend, Julio. Daniel and Julio sit a in car smoking weed when Daniel asks for some eye drops worried that his eyes might be too red and people will notice. Julio hands him a suspicious container and after he puts on the eye drops they both go inside the comedy club. Daniel begins to freak out before the show starts and Julio tells him that the suspicious container had some liquid LSD. Julio immediately gets a phone call and leaves Daniel alone. The show starts and Daniel tries to control himself but the drugs are too strong, so he rushes to the restroom and begins to see the walls moving, colors shifting, and his subconscious taking over. After what seems like forever, he gains control of his body and returns to his seat. Finally, the LSD takes full effect; the audience members and the actors in the group attack Daniel and drag him to the stage making fun of him and tying him up. Julio comes in and we realize Daniel had been sitting down the whole time, laughing at the play. Nobody attacked him or tied him up. Julio snaps him out of it and Daniel, coming back to his senses, screams at Julio in frustration.
Riders
Riders is the story about a girl who want to join a sport bike male motorcycle club but first she needs to earn the respect and trust of the members of the group and also confront her family.
Horas de expreso
A family man is extorted to kill another man in less than 24 hours. Everything changes when he decides not to.
The Antifascist's Duology
Two tragic short films about dogs, money, and fascism in one revelatory anthology.
Perdón
After losing Adriana, Carlos makes a deal with The Lord of the Underworld to be reunited with her once again.
The Light Particle
Writer-director-producer Rafael Rodriguez’s short film “Light Particle” chronicles the pleasure and pain of a man falling in love with a beautiful being of pure light embodied as a young woman. Haunting and surreal, Rodriguez’s’ film takes viewers on one man’s turbulent journey of obsession and desire linked to the emotional entanglement and destructive path of a most unusual, passionate love affair.
El ladrón de bicicletas
A day in the life of Enzo who is an artist, poet and addict circling the drain on his way to rock bottom.
Frontera Filmmakers Narratives Shorts - Q&A
A Q&A with the filmmakers participating in the Frontera Filmmakers Narrative Shorts Program.
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A young socially-anxious guy, Daniel, accidentally takes LSD while attending an improv comedy club with his wanna-be drug dealer friend, Julio.

Daniel and Julio sit a in car smoking weed when Daniel asks for some eye drops worried that his eyes might be too red and people will notice. Julio hands him a suspicious container and after he puts on the eye drops they both go inside the comedy club.

Daniel begins to freak out before the show starts and Julio tells him that the suspicious container had some liquid LSD. Julio immediately gets a phone call and leaves Daniel alone.

The show starts and Daniel tries to control himself but the drugs are too strong, so he rushes to the restroom and begins to see the walls moving, colors shifting, and his subconscious taking over. After what seems like forever, he gains control of his body and returns to his seat.

Finally, the LSD takes full effect; the audience members and the actors in the group attack Daniel and drag him to the stage making fun of him and tying him up. Julio comes in and we realize Daniel had been sitting down the whole time, laughing at the play. Nobody attacked him or tied him up. Julio snaps him out of it and Daniel, coming back to his senses, screams at Julio in frustration.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    9 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    USA
  • Premiere
    San Diego Premiere
  • Rating
    UR
  • Director
    Abner Vargas
  • Screenwriter
    Abner Vargas, Andrew Tylenda, Mikaela Wayne
  • Producer
    Abner Vargas
  • Cast
    Douglas Matthew Jung, Andrew Tylenda
  • Cinematographer
    David O'Neill
  • Editor
    Abner Vargas
  • Production Design
    Virginia Salvador
  • Composer
    Michael Williams
  • Sound Design
    Michael Williams
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