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Shot in Guerrero
Mexican short film Mariquita Quita to premiere at Cannes
April 07, 2018The short film Mariquita Quita by Luz Jaimes will have its world premiere at the 71st Cannes International Film Festival, which will take place from May 8 to May 19.
The fiction documentary written and directed by Luz Jaimes is part of the selection of Short Film Corner, a Cannes space dedicated to meetings, exchanges, promotion and sale of audiovisual products among professionals in the short film industry: directors, producers, buyers, exhibitors, distributors and programmers, among others.
This year the Short Film Corner will show 1,780 short films from around 80 countries, including Mexico, which will participate with a selection of 49 movies.
In an interview with the Department of Culture, Luz Jaimes said that the participation of the short film in the Short Film Corner will aim to seek international distribution, but also to make the world see another part of Mexico through the work and stop classifying it as a negative or violent place.
"The short film has not been presented, so it will have its world premiere and then we got off on the right foot. We don't know yet what day and time will be shown, but our expectation is that we can make our work reach more parts of the world because we want our history and those created in the country to be seen”.
"The work speaks of the vocation that is born in an innocent and beautiful child who begins to discover what he likes: he wants to be a musician and from that point on we also try to show that in our country, especially in Guerrero, beautiful things also happen".
The director commented that the short tells the story of Miguel, a sensitive child from the countryside, who dreams (asleep and awake) that he can be a musician and can play the song Mariquita Quita masterfully. The problem is, he doesn't have a violin or a teacher.
It is a 10-minute work created from diverse themes: education, music, vocation, art and Mexican roots. This is a totally independent short film that was recorded in Juliantla (a town located in the municipality of Taxco de Alarcón in the state of Guerrero) with calentano taste melodies made by the Tavira Borthers, he said.
The scriptwriter detailed that through this music she seeks to show that regional musicians are made in the countryside, in their homes and with their own means, so that it will be seen how, in spite of their limitations, they make art.
In addition to showing the importance of the maestro and how the regional music of Mexico, especially the one created in the Tierra Caliente (Hot Land) of Guerrero is beautiful and few people know it because its greatest exponents have died.
that he can play the violin because he was born in a land of musicians and sees one playing every day and then knows that there is something inside him that tells him he can play”.
"The short shows a beautiful story that speaks of the emergence of a musician's vocation, a story that I do not want to reach only the regional performers of Tierra Caliente but also regional musicians around the world”.
Mariquita Quita features performances by Dagoberto Gama, Patricio Salgado, Claudia Santiago and Rafael Aparicio.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
