Rodrigo Michelangeli
About
Rodrigo Michelangeli is a Venezuelan Producer. He is the Producer, co-writer, and Cinematographer of LA SOLEDAD (2016), which was supported by La Biennale di Venezia’s College Cinema program. His short experimental documentary about student protests in Venezuela, BULLETS OF PEACE (2014) premiered at the TIFF Bell Lightbox Jayu Human Rights Film Festival. In 2015, together with Jorge Thielen Armand, Rodrigo founded La Faena Films, a production company focused in auteur cinema with great social relevance based in Caracas and Toronto. Rodrigo was recently awarded the ARTE International Prix at the Buenos Aires Lab (2017), a production lab organized by BAFICI, for La Faena’s sophomore feature film.
LA FORTALEZA
Following the economic collapse of Venezuela, recovering alcoholic Roque attempts to turn his life around by rebuilding an abandoned tourist lodge in the Amazon jungle, but the allure of illegal gold mining derails his dreams.