High Noon (2013 Short Film)

High Noon (La Hora Señalada)
Directed by Ivan Mazza
Produced by Mike Medina
Written by Ivan Mazza
Starring Gabriel Rojas
Pedro Gómez
Prakriti Maduro
Edgar Noria
Efraín Romero
Gustavo Santana
Music by Juan Carlos Redondo
Cinematography Carlos Luis Rodríguez
Edited by Miguel Angel García
Release dates
  • 2013 (2013)
Running time
 14 minutes
Country Venezuela
Language Spanish

High Noon (Original Spanish title: La Hora Señalada) is a 2013 Venezuelan drama short film about bullying, directed by Ivan Mazza.

Plot

In a school playground, a small and lonely child, is walking by the group of popular kids of his class when someone pushes him accidentally against the biggest boy of the group, making him drop a pack of gum in the wet and dirty floor. The boys around them decide they should fight, so it’s decreed the two of them must face each other outside the school, when the noon bell rings. When the classes end, the small kid will try to escape the situation by lingering in the empty building and trying to go unnoticed. However, the ticking clock will become Figueroa’s worst enemy, while he has to face his fears and insecurities in order to confront his enemy just outside the school at high noon.

Cast

Production

High Noon is an independently financed short film, produced by Mike Medina and coproduced by CNAC. The second short film from its director, after the award winning short film Yours from 2010. High Noon was filmed during five days in various locations over the city of Caracas, on the month of April 2012. The project was awarded funding by Venezuela's CNAC in 2011.[1] Editing and sound post production took place in Caracas for a period of one month after filming ended. It was premiered on March 2013 during the 23rd Cinequest Film Festival as part of the Official Short Film Competition. After this, it was selected in various prestigious Film Festivals around the world during 2013 as part of their respective Official Selections, being described by the press as a poignant film where moments of inner struggle are captured and also as a Spaghetti Western from the schoolyard.[2][3]

The film was screened in half of the commercial venues in Venezuela during January and February 2015 as part of the Venezuela en corto initiative to promote award winning Venezuelan short films to general audiences.[4][5] The plot is inspired in the director's recollections from a similar situation he lived in his childhood. He also treated the story as an homage to the Western as a film genre[6]

Film Awards

Official selections

References

  1. ↑ Cine-arte Camlb. "Cine-Arte Camlb: RESULTADOS CONVOCATORIA CNAC 2011". cinearte-camlb.blogspot.com.es.
  2. 1 2 "VERDENS BESTE - Tromsø barnefilmfestival". verdensbestefilm.no.
  3. 1 2 "Powerful And Strange: Fantasy, Fairy Tale And Confrontation In GFF 'Intersections'". middleeastevents.com.
  4. ↑ "Activan programa Venezuela en Corto". radiolaprimerisima.com.
  5. ↑ "Venezuela en corto". Cinemathon.
  6. 1 2 "SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA 2013 / Brillia SHORTSHORTS Theater: International program G". shortshorts.org.
  7. ↑ cnac.gob.ve. "Cortometrajes criollos destacan en festival peruano". CNAC.
  8. ↑ "Ganadores X FENACO Lambayeque Perú 2013". Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes FENACO Perú.
  9. ↑ http://www.primicia.com.ve/placeres/fescive-humanizo-a-la-ciudad-industrial.html
  10. ↑ Expresión Ixoye. "FICAIJ, Mérida, Venezuela: Premiaciones III FICAIJ". ficaij.blogspot.com.es.
  11. ↑ "Cinequest - High Noon (La Hora Señalada)". Cinequest Film Festival.
  12. ↑ "High Noon". cinequest.org.
  13. ↑ cnac.gob.ve. "La hora señalada representará a Venezuela en el Festival Internacional Cinequest". CNAC.
  14. ↑ "High Noon - Cleveland International Film Festival :: March 18 - March 29, 2015". clevelandfilm.org.
  15. ↑ http://1080plus.com/FksGtTfOe5k.video
  16. ↑ http://riff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/lahorasealadahighnoon_ivanmazza_riff2013
  17. ↑ BET Networks (21 August 2013). "The Urbanworld Film Festival Presented By BET Networks Announces 2013 Festival Slate". prnewswire.com.
  18. ↑ http://www.heartlandfilm.org/wp-content/uploads/2013HFFGuideBook.pdf
  19. ↑ "SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA 2012 / Nominated short film of the official competition was announced". shortshorts.org.
  20. ↑ "13 cortos de España y América Latina compiten en Short Shorts Asia - Sinopsis, crítica, trailer, análisis - El Espectador Imaginario". elespectadorimaginario.com.
  21. ↑ "Warsaw Film Festival". wff.pl.
  22. ↑ "25th Tromsø International Film Festival". World News.
  23. ↑ Cinemateca Uruguaya. "ISSUU - 462 by Cinemateca Uruguaya". Issuu.
  24. ↑ "Cine Pantalla Latina SG 2013". puntolatino.ch.
  25. ↑ GIFFMX. "ISSUU - Catalogo giff 2013 Parte 1 by GIFFMX". Issuu.
  26. ↑ http://www.habanafilmfestival.com/source_docs/descargas/prog35/Prog35_11dic.pdf
  27. ↑ Julián Farfán. "CINE EN LOS BARRIOS 2013 – FICCI Ed. 53 - Noticias de arquitectura y diseño". infinitylab.com.co.

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