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Ignacio Márquez
Directing
Biography
Ignacio Márquez is a Venezuelan filnmaker, who was born in Bolivia and grew up in Argentina.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Calle 22
A street, two public phones; a couple, Ana and Manuel. Manuel has decided to play a joke with Ana, so he makes dirty telephone calls to her, changing his voice. To his surprise, Ana is seduced by the unknown voice.
La Ley
Pedro is about to be appointed a judge of the supreme court Spanish, but a call announces the death of his grandmother in Venezuela and its subsequent inheritance. This news forces him to "take suitcases", never imagining that this country change the way you see life, justice and love.
Composed
Carolina, makeup the corpse of a man, thus she enters a trance that allows him to maintain his composure in the face of pain while continues the routine.
Sons of the Earth
"Hijos de la tierra" presents a drama set a little before the 1920s, in which scattered news, stories and rumors spread the presence of a new wealth, oil, leading to the suspicion that a great change was about to take place.
Uaricha en la muerte
Mexican feature film
Postcards from Leningrad
During the armed uprisings of the sixties in Venezuela, a young guerrilla woman has to give birth in secret. To her surprise, her daughter is the first to be born on Mother's Day and photos appear in the press. Since then, both have to flee. Disguises, false names are the hiding places and the daily life of CHICA, the narrator of this story. Together with her cousin TEO, they reinvent the adventures of their guerrilla fathers, building a fantastic labyrinth of superheroes and strategies around armed subversion, where you never know where reality or madness begins. But the children's game cannot hide the death, torture, accusations and betrayals that live inside the guerrilla.
Sons of the Earth
"Hijos de la tierra" presents a drama set a little before the 1920s, in which scattered news, stories and rumors spread the presence of a new wealth, oil, leading to the suspicion that a great change was about to take place.
Production
The Special
CHUO (23) is a young Down syndrome, that wants to be treated as an adult man; which creates a constant confrontation with his father JOSÉ (45), a frustrated percussionist, refugee in the drink, not knowing how to handle the demand for love of his special child. While CHUO wins performing spaces so that his father loves him, José increasingly rejected him. However, CHUO not cease in its efforts and is in the music, the way to win the love of his father.
The Special
CHUO (23) is a young Down syndrome, that wants to be treated as an adult man; which creates a constant confrontation with his father JOSÉ (45), a frustrated percussionist, refugee in the drink, not knowing how to handle the demand for love of his special child. While CHUO wins performing spaces so that his father loves him, José increasingly rejected him. However, CHUO not cease in its efforts and is in the music, the way to win the love of his father.
The Special
CHUO (23) is a young Down syndrome, that wants to be treated as an adult man; which creates a constant confrontation with his father JOSÉ (45), a frustrated percussionist, refugee in the drink, not knowing how to handle the demand for love of his special child. While CHUO wins performing spaces so that his father loves him, José increasingly rejected him. However, CHUO not cease in its efforts and is in the music, the way to win the love of his father.
Ley de fuga
Brigadier is a cheater and selfish businessman who needs to escape from the prison where he is being held, his only chance to achieve is to become director of a theater group of some prisoners who despises. Amidst the hilarious and tense situations that occur during testing of fun work, Brigadier and other inmates discover that the theater is only possible through tolerance and solidarity.
Ley de fuga
Brigadier is a cheater and selfish businessman who needs to escape from the prison where he is being held, his only chance to achieve is to become director of a theater group of some prisoners who despises. Amidst the hilarious and tense situations that occur during testing of fun work, Brigadier and other inmates discover that the theater is only possible through tolerance and solidarity.
Ley de fuga
Brigadier is a cheater and selfish businessman who needs to escape from the prison where he is being held, his only chance to achieve is to become director of a theater group of some prisoners who despises. Amidst the hilarious and tense situations that occur during testing of fun work, Brigadier and other inmates discover that the theater is only possible through tolerance and solidarity.
Sueño Down
Venezuelan short
Uphill Love
Pablo is a young man going through a crisis of love. His best friend decides to take him to reunion party; there he encounters Daniela, the great love in his adolescence. In the middle of the party he tries conquer her heart, but discovers a reality that he did not expect of her: she is dedicated to the oldest trade in the world
Abril
On April 11th of 2002 a coup d'état against the venezuelan president Hugo Chávez Frías kept the country in a state of total uncertainty regarding his whereabouts, two days later he returned to power. This is a chronicle of those days.
Caimanes de la Galaxia
CARLOS is a deeply selfish teenager who dreams of succeeding in the “Intergalactic Baseball Leagues” but is forced to move to a place so remote that he himself has baptized “Pluto” and move greatly away from his goal. His only opportunity to push himself again towards the “Intergalactic Leagues” is to be part of a team of “Caimanes”, that is, some discarded players and challenge the “Lancers”, the best team in “Pluton”.