Screens Sunday, October 23, 5:30 pm
Soy una Invención
(I’m an Invention)
Colombia / 2007 / 9 min
Director: Edwin Cortes Ortegón
Producers: Liliana Rincón, Edwin Cortes Ortegón
Screenwriter: Edwin Cortes Ortegón
Executive Producers: Liliana Rincón, Edwin Cortes
Cinematographer: Mauricio Vidal
Editor: Edwin Cortes
Art Director: Yasmín Gutierrez
Sound Design: Cesar Salazar
Music: Mezuena Producciones
A delivery man’s motorcycle gets a flat tire, so the man has to catch a taxi to avoid losing his job. Once inside the taxi, he discovers an abandoned tennis shoe box, so he dreams a little about the ultimate pair of sports shoes. Hidden from the taxi driver’s sight, he decides to take the box. He opens it and finds that inside the box there is a bomb about to explode. He decides to leave it down again, but the taxi is stopped by a regular street police patrol. The delivery man becomes afraid that he’s going to be accused as a suspect, so he leaves the cab. While he escapes away, he feels regret about the innocent people waiting to be inspected by the street police patrol. Suddenly, he runs back to try to catch the bomb and throw it away, but one of the patrol’s policemen shoots him.
Un mensajero al que se le pincha la moto, toma un taxi para no perder su trabajo. En el taxi descubre una caja de zapatos deportivos y fantasea con unos formidables “tennis”. Sin que el taxista se de cuenta decide cogerla. Impaciente la destapa: es una bomba que esta por destallar. Decide dejarla, pero el taxi es detenido por un reten policial. El mensajero se imagina culpado y se va antes de que lo descubran. Se aleja con remordimiento: recuerda que hay personas inocentes en el reten. En un arranque, corre hacia la bomba para alejarla pero uno de los policías del reten le dispara.
Cast: Mauricio Puentes, Hernán Mendez , Angélica Blandón, Fernando García, Nora González, Mariana Garzón, Anderson Balsero
Film Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Film Year: 2007
Run Time: 9 min