Valentina Abad
Directing
Biography
Valentina Victoria Abad (born 18 November, 2000) is an Argentine Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Film Editor and a Graphic Designer. She holds a degree in Audiovisual Artistic Design (Rio Negro's National University). She has directed genre short films such as "Carpe Diem" (2020); "Midnight Fever" (2022), winner of the U-21 section of the Bariloche Audiovisual Festival (FAB); and also directed the documentary short "Plantar: un presente, un futuro" (Planting: a present, a future) in 2023 and her latest short film "Día Laboral" (Labor Day) in 2024. She is currently writing her first book of short stories and creating her fifth short film.
Known For
Bariloche, 2023. A group of volunteers travel to the burned forest to carry out a planting day, where Dani and others explain the importance of planting trees.
Planting: a present, a future
Marco and Alejo are like two peas in a pod; they stick together like gum and get into everything. They're best friends. One Friday night, when Marco's mother is going out of town, Marco and Alejo decide to go out to party, but what they didn't plan on doing is running over a girl on the way to her house. After committing the crime, the two friends decide to take the girl home to hide her; like partners in crime, right?
Midnight Rush
Esteban Murillo is a prisoner, or at least, that's what he believes. Every day, he must retreat into his dreams, where he'll have to find a way to escape from that room — or die trying.
Carpe Diem
An ordinary day for an ordinary guy: where an ordinary man's morning routine turns more sinister than expected.