Spain

Director: Machu Latorre

16 2018, Digital File

Distributor: Agencia Audiovisual FREAK

Producer: Caleidoscopio Films, Una + One Films

A grieving widower copes with doing laundry for the first time and faces life's universal mystery...a missing sock.

Prizes:
http://agenciafreak.com/cortometraje/LA-PARDIDA/813

The Loss is a love letter to my Spanish roots and my family, who not only tough me to love movies, but also to confront life's triumphs and failures with a sense of humor. Movies have always been an integral part of my life. I have fond memories of gatherings with my family in front of the TV, my grandma, my sisters and my parents snuggled on the couch watching movie after movie. We'll watch all genres, comedies, dramas, thrillers, classic films, and my dad's favorite, westerns. It was this shared family experienced that made me fall in love with movies and as long as I remember, I knew I wanted to be part of the making of such magical craft. Moved by this passion, at age 19, and with little less than a suitcase in had, I moved to the US in search of the dream to becoming a filmmaker. I obtained a BFA in Film at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. In 2000, while attending a Film Festival in Madrid for which I was a collaborating programer, I met Academy Award winners Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Soon after returning to San Francisco, I joined their production company Telling Pictures. Over the years, I collaborated with them on multiple projects for PBS, HBO and Showtime as an editor and associate producer. During those years working with Rob and Jeffrey I developed a love for documentaries, and in 2011, I ventured to produce and direct my own. “Entry Denied” was a labor of love, and for many years I followed the lives of three characters as they struggle with US Immigration law. Entry Denied had a successful festival run screening in festivals all over the world, and earned several awards including a “Special Jury Award in 2012 at the acclaimed “Provincetown International Film Festival”. In 2013, going back to my roots and my love for narrative films, I begun writing screenplays with the intention to transition to directing fiction. Having lived in two different countries, the notion of creating a story that could transcend between cultures was intriguing. This challenge become the birth of the short La Perdida (The Loss)”. This is my debut as writer/director.