Child's Play
TFI Suppport
Logline
In December 2006, President Calderon launched a nationwide crackdown against drug-traffickers in Mexico. Since then, over 50,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence, causing a humanitarian crisis that is jeopardizing the lives of millions of families. Devani (age 9) witnessed her uncle‘s brutal murder and now she feels numb. Leslie (age 5) is afraid of everything. At night, beheaded men hunt her. Antonio instead, wants revenge. On his seventh birthday his parents go missing. Yet another unsolved disappearance case in Monterrey. War around them is so real that childhood is eluding them. But there’s a safe place where they can play. Funny games, silly games, children’s games after all. Rodrigo and a small team of young psychologists are there to listen and help them heal.
Alba Mora-Roca
Director
Alba Mora is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and multimedia producer who worked as a freelance for five years in Barcelona. She has directed three documentaries in India, Colombia and Cameroon that have been aired in Spanish TV and won awards at film festivals across Europe and United States. In 2008 she was awarded with the prestigious "La Caixa" Fellowship to do her Masters in Documentary film in the U.S. On May 2010 she graduated at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. In 2009 she worked as an Associate Producer at Mediastorm Multimedia Production Studio in New York wining the First Place for the Documentary Project of the Year for "Times of Crisis" at the Sixty-Seventh Annual Pictures of the Year International Competition. Alba Mora is currently an intern at Creative Differences, a documentary production house in Los Angeles, as she was awarded with the renowned Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Internship Program.