Candela (2015)


Type: Shortfilm, fiction
Duration: 3'28"
Format: HD, Color
Aspect: 16/9
Fps: 25
Audio: Estereo
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English 


Direction: Julio Suárez
Production: LGC Films
Cast: Laia Ruiz - Raúl López

Screenplay: Julio Suárez - María Pámpanas
Cinematographer: Aniol Pla-Giribert Agüero
Art direction: Iu Gironès
Editing: Arnau Hernández
Music: Paco Viciana
Sound: Rodrigo Moreda
Production management: Lola López
Makeup and hairdressing: Anna Rosillo
Color: Víctor Herrero
Camera assistant: Jordi Parals
Camera assistant: Jordi Sala
Data wrangler: Mariona Boada
Electric: Mireia Pozo
Assistant of actors: Clara Castrillo
Production assistants: Inés Domínguez - Marcos Caurel

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Awards:

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Exceptional Merit Short

Depth of Field International Film Festival - UK (2016)

Exceptional Merit to direction short (Julio Suárez)

Depth of Field International Film Festival - UK (2016)

Exceptional Merit to lead actress (Laia Ruiz)

Depth of Field International Film Festival - UK (2016)

Merit to the script (Julio Suárez - María Pámpanas)  

Depth of Field International Film Festival - UK (2016)

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Official Selections:

 

·7th Women's Film Festival - Bogotá - Colombia (2015) 

·6th Audiovisual Exhibition Cinesinú - Montería - Colombia (2015) 

·Short films exhibition of San Rafael en Corto (2015)

·4'Minutes in Short International Short Film Festival Telde (2015)

·FOCUS International Film Festival - Puerto Rico (2016)

·HANG ONTO YOUR SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL - New Jersey (2016) 

·Notodofilmfest (2016)

·Ibero-American Short Film Festival ABC "FIBAC" - Madrid (2016)

·Walthamstow International Film Festival - London UK - (2016)

·Depth of Field International Film Festival - UK (2016)

·Sandpoint Film Festival - Sandpoint (Idaho) - USA (2016)

·VI Festival Visualízame - Alcalá de la Reina (Jaén) - (2016)

·III Festival of curts Maldelcap'16 - Eivissa (2016)

·International Social Short Film Festival - Barcelona (2017) 

·FICAIJ - Int. Children and Youth Film Festival - Venezuela (2017)

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Synopsis:

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Candela is a curious and thoughtful girl. Facing her father's proposal, she must make a decision that, after a deliberation, it will mark her character/personality as a girl and in the future ... as a woman.

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