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Awards: Best Horizontal one-minute film @SMARTFILMS-Festival-De-Cine (2023)
Shot with vivo V25e - @vivocolombia1847
Cast:
Woman: Diana K. Mateus @dianamateus.act
Man: Pepe Cámara @pepeencamara
Girl: Ananda Maldonado
Boy: Santiago Castro
Directed by: Carlos Andrés Reyes. @carlosarfilm
Cinematography, VFX and Digital Compositing: Jesús Madev @maldovis
Production: Angélica Nieves
Screenplay and Storyboard: Carlos Andrés Reyes
Production designer, makeup and wardrobe: Lucía Rufini Adet @luciarufinimua
Sound, Music and Mixing: Carlos Andrés Reyes
Promotion: Alexandra Aristizábal
Production Assistance: Geraldine Naranjo. @quingeraldcastaneda8474
Synopsis:
On opposite sides of two mountains, separated by a deep ravine, two neighborhoods flourish. In each corner, a boy and a girl yearn to bond, but an unbridgeable chasm prevents them from connecting. The boy, in a gesture of hope, tries to lift a kite that hurtles across to the other side, where the young girl resides, only to become entangled in the suspended electrical grids.
As the years progress, the children, now adults, continue their separate lives. However, the young man, now imbued with ingenuity, rediscovers the ancient kite string. With determination, he communicates with his former friend, now a renowned engineer. Together, they devise a daring venture: to employ the old string to establish a means of communication.
With each thread exchanged across the ravine, the connection is strengthened. The thin strands become sturdy cables, and a bridge is born of their shared ingenuity. This bridge not only links the two childhood friends, but also their respective communities. As inventions flow and intertwine, once isolated neighborhoods reap the rewards of collaboration, ushering in a future full of possibilities.
About the idea
The first bridge over Niagara Falls completed in 1848 began with a kite. Theodore G. Hulett, supervisor of that work, had the idea of holding a kite contest whose objective was to fly a kite from one bank to the other without breaking the string. Just one day after the contest started, a young man named Homan Walsh flew a kite from the Canadian shore to the other side, in the USA.
Quickly, the rope was attached and the line was used to move to heavier ropes on the other side. After this, a cable returned from the Canadian side dragging a light catenary, which was the beginning of the bridge that served to communicate two countries.
This served as inspiration for this story in which a kite unites two children and then, thanks to its rope, two neighborhoods so that together, through civil works and technology, they build a bridge that will bring a better future.
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