Josué García Prado
Directing
Biography
Josué García Prado is a Guatemalan filmmaker born in Quetzaltenango. He graduated as a documentary director and editor from Casa Comal Cine y Escuela de Televisión. Since then, he has directed several short documentary films that have been screened and awarded at international film festivals. His recent short documentary Sarna has received international recognition, with selections and awards at festivals including Sheffield DocFest, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival, Leiden Shorts, DocsMX, SF Indie Fest, Riga International Film Festival (Riga IFF), and the Ícaro International Film Festival, where it won Best Central American Documentary Short Film. García Prado participated in the XV Edition of Talents Guadalajara and was part of the CAMERA Studio program. His work focuses on memory, empathy, and personal narratives explored through observational documentary filmmaking.
Known For
A portrait of Guatemala City and municipalities adjacent to the Pan-American Highway from the eyes of the stray dogs living there.
Sarna
Ale dances to heal but Checha has not yet found the means to get better. In an attempt to help him and move on Ale gets accidentally locked up with Checha on a terrace. Without much to say, dance will be their only language.
Campo
On her 90th birthday, Josefa Elizabeth Andrade reflects on the chapel she built for her son, Joaquín Rodas Andrade, forcibly disappeared during Guatemala’s armed conflict nearly forty years ago.