ARGENTINA / 15 MIN / 2013 / FICTION / DCP 2K / 1.85:1 / DOLBY 5.1 / COLOR
Subtitles available: English, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Hipólito Vázquez is an old talent’s scout that with Cholo, his loyal partner, is looking for a little child who is supposed to “do magic with the football”. Therefore they go on a long journey to the distant Club “La Camelia” following the advices of a mysterious man. But as the trip goes by, not everything goes as planned and maybe what he ends up discovering was not exactly what he expected to find.
Hipólito Vázquez es un viejo buscador de talentos que, junto a su fiel escudero Cholo, está en la búsqueda de un niño del que aseguran “es capaz de hacer magia con el balón”. Con tal fin emprende un viaje hacia el club “La Camelia” en un paraje remoto. Siguiendo los consejos de un misterioso hombre, se relaciona con diversos personajes en pos de su objetivo. Pero las cosas no siempre son lo que parecen, y, quizás, aquello que encuentre no sea exactamente lo que esperaba.
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Festivals & Awards
- 1º Festival Internacional de Cine Deportivo (Argentina, 2015)
- 4º Festicine Pehuajó (Argentina, 2015)
- 10º Festival de Cortos PENCA (Argentina, 2015)
- Festival Internacional de Cine Social de Concordia (Argentina, 2015)
- Jornadas 36º UNCIPAR (Argentina, 2014)
- 10º MARFICI (Argentina 2014)
- Pantalla Pinamar 2014 (Argentina, 2014)
- 2º Semana de Imagen y Sonido (Argentina, 2014)
- 3º Festival de Cine Nacional Leonardo Favio (Argentina,2014)
- 5º Visión Ribereña (Argentina, 2014) – winner Best Fiction Script
- 3º Festival Latinoamericano de Cine Independiente de Bahía Blanca (Argentina, 2014) – winner Best Short Film
- 11º Festival de Cine Independiente Escobar de Película (Argentina, 2014) – winner Best Cinematography
- 2º Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de la Cuenca del Salado (Argentina, 2014)
- 8º Festival nacional de cortometrajes de Comodoro Rivadavia Corto Rodado (Argentina, 2014)
- 9º Pizza, Birra y Cortos (Argentina, 2014)
- 2º Festival Nacional de Cortometrajes de Villa Mercedes “La hora mágica” (Argentina, 2014) – Special Jury Mention
- 8º Festival Relatos Cortos (Argentina, 2014)
- 10º Tandil Cortos (Argentina, 2013) – winner Ojo de Piedra, Mejor Actor: Javier Lombardo
- 8º Cortala Tucumán (Argentina, 2013)
- 8º Children’s International Film Festival (Bangladesh, 2015)
- 5º Festival du cinema Latin-Americain Peliculatina (Belgium, 2016)
- 5º Cinefoot (Brazil, 2014)
- FAM, Florianópolis Audiovisual Mercosul (Brazil, 2014)
- Festival del cine futbolero (Colombia, 2018)
- 6º Festival Internacional de Santander (Colombia, 2014)
- 5º Festival de cine: infancia y adolescencia de la ciudad de Bogotá (Colombia, 2014)
- 17º Rencontres du cinéma Sud-Américain de Marseilles (France, 2015)
- 11mm Internationales FubBall Film Festival (Germany, 2014)
- 17º Festival Internacional de Cine en Centroamérica Ícaro (Guatemala, 2014)
- Sport Film Festival (Italy, 2018)
- Matera Sport Film Festival (Italy, 2018) – winner Special Jury Award
- As Film Festival (Italy, 2015)
- 3º Tolfa Short Film Festival (Italy, 2014) – winner Best Action/Adventure/Western
- 9º Sardinia Film Festival (Italy, 2014)
- 12º Cinema da Mare (Italy, 2014)
- 15º Trani Film Festival (Italy, 2014) – winner Best Short Film ‘Short Size’
- 15º Fiati Corti (Italy,2014)
- 4º Corto Dino (Italy, 2014)
- 21º Corto Imola (Italy, 2014)
- 10º Dieciminuti Film Festival (Italy, 2014)
- 10º Festival Internazionale de Cortometraggio, Documentari e Sceneggiatura, Lago Film Fest (Italy, 2014)
- Kenya Sport Film Festival (Kenya, 2018)
- 18º Festival de Cine de Lima (Peru, 2014)
- Be Curt (Spain, 2015)
- Pantalla Latina (Switzerland, 2014)
- 11º Festival International du Film pour l’Enfance et la Jeunesse (Tunis, 2016)
- Ayvalik International Film Festival (Turkey, 2014)
- 2 Short Nights Film Festival (UK)
- 2014 Indiana Short Film Festival (USA, 2014) – winner Grand Jury Prize
- 1º The America’s Film Festival of New York (USA, 2014)
- Anchorage International Film Festival 2014 (USA, 2014) – Honorable Mention
- 24º Festival de cine para niños DIVERCINE (Uruguay, 2015)
- 7º Cine del Mar, cine del Mercosur (Uruguay, 2014)
- Festival de cine Futbolero (Venezuela, 2017)
- 16º Zimbabwe International Film Festival (Zimbabwe, 2014)
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cast
Javier Lombardo, Sergio Podeley, Victor Hugo Morales, Coco Sily, Guillermo Aguilar, Francisco Balducci
written and directed by
Matías Rubio
executive producer
Lucila Riggio
cinematographer
Nicolás Pittaluga
art director
Maximiliano Aduki
sound designer
Mauro Verdi
original music by
Alejandro Méndez Sierra
film editor
Matías Rubio
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director's bio
Matías Rubio was born in 1983 at Buenos Aires, Argentina. He grew up between his two passions: football soccer and movies. Studied Image and Sound Design at University of Buenos Aires while working as an editor, 2D animator and director’s assistant in diverse production houses. In 2010 he won “Historias Breves”, a contest of the National Institute of Cinema of Argentina (INCAA), allowing him to make his first short movie screened in theatres with good audience and critic’s reception. With experience on directing movies, advertising and documentaries, he is now developing his first feature film.