Synopsis
Noelia, a 40-year-old visual artist, discovers her cancer has metastasized. She refuses to continue her treatment and decides to return to Vieques, Puerto Rico, where she grew up. Once there, she keeps her cancer a secret in order to live freely and throws herself into denouncing pollution left by the U.S. Army after years of military exercises on the island. Noelia’s health worsens as she joins her neighbors to secretly enter closed testing areas to document undetonated bombs and toxic remains. When an approaching hurricane threatens the island, she faces the decision to leave and seek treatment or stay with her community.
Director
Filmmaker and screenwriter whose work is related to grief, identity, colonialism, and gender. In 2017, she won the Best Screenplay Award in the Unpublished Screenplay Competition of the New Latin American Film Festival in Havana, Cuba. In 2019, she premiered Juana(s) Matos, commissioned by the MACPR. Her work has been presented in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, the US and Europe.
International Premiere
Director - Directors
Glorimar Marrero-SánchezGuión - Screenplay
Glorimar Marrero-SánchezProductor - Producer
José Esteban Alenda, Amaya Izquierdo, Glorimar Marrero-SánchezMúsica - Music:
Sergio de la PuenteSonido - Sound:
Maité Rivera CarbonellCinematografía - Cinematography:
PJ LópezEdición - Editor:
Clara Martínez MalageladaDirección de Arte - Production Design:
María Eugenia SueiroIntérpretes - Cast
Isel Rodríguez, Modesto Lacén, Magali Carrasquillo, Maximiliano Rivas, Georgina Borri, Anamin Santiago, Idenisse Salaman, Carola GarcíaContacto - Contact
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