Felipe Holguín Caro
Directing
Biography
Felipe H. Caro is a Colombian writer / director, who has lived in Bogotá, New York, Sao Paulo, Los Angeles and is currently established in Cartagena de Indias. He co-founded the production company Cumbia Films in 2009. In 2010 he received 2 Honorable Mentions (BOGOCINE, KOLIBRI) for his fiction short film TOMORROW, which premiered at FICCI 2010 and participated in more than 30 international film festivals. In 2012, he was selected to participate in the Film Independent Directing Project Involve Fellowship Program in Los Angeles, California, where he wrote, produced and directed several short films. In 2014 / 2015 he directed two feature documentaries funded by the Colombian Ministry of Culture. His most recent short films were funded by the Colombian Film Fund (FDC-Proimagenes). UNLUCKY’S LUCK, funded and shot in 2017, won 2 Best Fiction Short Film awards in 2018 (SAFILM, FICGIBARA), and most recently the short documentary LA CACHERA, funded and shot in 2019, was selected to be world premiere at FICCI 2020, but got cancelled due to COVID-19. Felipe was Casting Director for the feature film EL PIEDRA in 2017, pre-selected to represent Colombia in the Oscars and Goya awards. He is currently in development of his first fiction feature film THE SHADOW OF THE BEAST, planning to go into production in 2021.
Known For
In a town erased from the maps where there is not even electricity, a teenage girl dreams of being a boxer. When she learns that her uncle will box for the world title and the event will be broadcast live on television, she and the community will go out of their way to watch the fight, while fighting for her dignity and against oblivion.
La Suprema
When couples fight publicly, leave each other and eventually reconcile as if nothing happened, their neighbors organize what is called a CACHERA, a living theatrical portrait where they disrupt the couples intimacy by reenacting their fight loudly, making noise with pots, pans, bull horns and instruments in the middle of the night. Cacheras are only known to happen in the region of Montes de Maria, Colombia and is a tradition that is being lost and displaced by modern life, technology and a transformed sense of community relationships.
La Cachera
A tale of love and resilience amid the turbulence of a border crisis, Gustavo, a dedicated radio host in Táchira, Venezuela, splits his time between his job and caring for his wheelchair-bound wife. When the station’s console breaks down, he decides to cross into Colombia to have it repaired, but an unexpected border closing will leave him stranded. Desperate to reach out to his wife, Gustavo conceives a gesture both romantic and ingenious: a radio broadcast of the bolero that first made them fall in love.
This Bolero is for ‘Ita’
Pellito lives in a small caribbean town in Colombia. Abandoned by his wife, with no job or money, he lives “cursed." On his 63rd birthday, Antonia, one of his neighbors, buys him a ticket for the fortune’s raffle, an almost surreal lottery that comes into town with all sorts of items: a stove, a fridge, a tv, a pressure cooker, a fan, two rocking chairs, bottles of rum and two chickens. To his and everyone in town´s surprise, Pellito´s ticket is the winner. The neighbors organize a big party and pellito celebrates the return of his luck, but after much celebration, dance and drinks, he will confirm the saying: from luck and death no one is safe.