Martínez
Logline
Martínez, a cranky and lonely bureaucrat resisting retirement, receives a surprise gift from a deceased neighbor. He finally begins to enjoy life through a love affair with her through her old belongings.
Lorena Padilla
Director
Lorena Padilla has a BA in Audiovisual Arts from the University of Guadalajara and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts/NYU, where she attended as a Fulbright scholar. In the last fifteen years, she has lived in Mexico, England, United States, Spain, Ecuador and Peru where she has worked as a producer, screenwriter, and director. Her feature film script "MARTINEZ" participated at the Script Station/Berlinale Talents, Script & Pitch/Torino Film Lab and Cine Qua Non Lab. This script has been supported by Tribeca Film Institute and by the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE) earning the Scriptwriters and Development Grants and FOPROCINE. As an Executive Producer, she won the TFI Latin America Arts Funds from Tribeca Film Fund with the documentary “The Naptime.” With Rodrigo Reyes, Guggenheim Fellow and Sundance Fellow, she wrote his new documentary project “499.”She currently lives in Dallas, where she teaches Film Directing and Screenwriting at Southern Methodist University.
Georgina Gonzalez
Producer
Georgina Gonzalez-Rodriguez is VP of production at Off-Hollywood Films as well as Head of Development at Cinépolis ́ the second-largest theater chain worldwide. She is a CUEC- UNAM filmmaking BA & USC's Peter Stark MFA producing program graduate, sponsored by Fulbright. Through her company, Off-Hollywood Films she’s produced “Kiliwas at Dusk” (IMCINE) "Kings of Nowhere" (SXSW, Zurich film fest winner), "Reports on Sarah and Saleem" (IFFR 2018, Hubert Bals and & World Cinema Fund, Hivos Tiger audience and jury prize winner at Rotterdam Film Festival, Best feature at Durban Film Festival and the audience award at Seattle Film Festival),"Finding the Werewolf" (Ibermedia and IMCINE development funds, PGA Diversity Workshop, IFP Week, NALIP Latino Media Market, Guadalajara Film Festival co- production forum, Cabos goes to Cannes), “Passion Drives Us” for NALIP’s Beyond Graduation Incubator, sponsored by Corporation for Public Broadcasting to air on World Channel.
Diana Garay
Cinematographer
Diana Garay specialized in cinematography at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, where she directed and shot the short film Pata de perro (Itchy Feet) and the feature documentary Mi amiga Bety (My Friend Bety) which received the José Rovirosa Award for Best Mexican Student Documentary in 2012 and Best Feature Documentary in DocsDF. Distancias Cortas (Walking Distance) was her debut as a cinematographer for a fiction feature film and after that she has been the cinematographer of numerous narrative and documentary films, like “Leona”.
Maite Perez-Nievas
Production Designer
Maite Perez-Nievas is a Spanish born, Brooklyn based Production Designer. She is, foremost, a storyteller and has been telling and reimagining stories for the last 10 years. She holds an MFA in Design for Stage and Film from NYU, A BA in Art Direction from Madrid Film School. She has designed for directors like Julia Solomonoff and Jim McKay, companies like Amazon and Samsung and has worked on the art department for TV shows like The Knick and The Leftovers. She is a member of United Scenic Artists Union-Local 82since 2013.