Mestizo

Documentary about the Venezuelan poet Armando Rojas Guardia.

This documentary takes us on a sensorial and atmospheric journey through the experiences, words and thoughts of the Venezuelan essayist and poet Armando Rojas Guardia. His early connection with the divine, the gradual inner maturation of a mystical experience that he manages to glimpse in his early adulthood, the determining and complex influence of his father (also a writer), his first crush on a young high school classmate, the profound experience of homoeroticism, the abysses of the psychotic crisis. All experiences pushed to the limit and which make up some of the singular elements of a unique artistic and intellectual quest with a broad universal scope.

Piragua is a short documentary that pays intimate tribute to the life of Malena Coelho, the beloved Argentine editor, proofreader, and lifelong companion of Venezuelan poet Juan Sánchez Peláez. Directed by Santiago Zerpa and produced by Gabriel Payares, the film weaves together candid interviews and personal reflections to explore Coelho’s rich intellectual and emotional world, her deep partnership with Peláez, and the profound impact of poetry and memory on her life.

Documentary about the poet Miguel Ramón Utrera.

Documentary about Venezuelan poet Juan Sánchez Peláez.

Documentary about Venezuelan writer and intellectual Orlando Araujo.

An interview to the Venezuelan writer José León Tapia.

Wunsch zwei(2) is not about nightmares or fear, it’s about love. It’s is a coming of age. It’s wunschmaschinen. This short film was shot between summer 2022 - fall 2024, distributed in different cuts.

Madame Vavin dies alone in a small French village without knowledge of her second marriage in England known to anyone. Consequentially her first husband James Fullerton and his tyrannical sister Cornelia take custody of her young daughter Dora. The puritanical pair take Dora to America but disapprove of her spirited nature especially when Dora decides upon a theatrical career. On stage, Dora meets and falls in love with playwright Willard Holcomb, but the fears implanted by Fullerton and his sister make Dora incapable of romantic commitment. As she despairs of her fate, Professor Vavin, who has spent years searching for Dora, discovers his daughter and explains there is nothing to fear from love. Her confidence thus restored, Dora can continue with her life.

On a night out in Milwaukee, an up and coming sous chef meets a charming stranger in a bar. Their intense connection soon shifts and develops into something neither of them bargained for.

A radical adaptation of Noah's Ark, A world on the brink of failure, a "Doomsday scenario" filled with failed students and streams of black water. Nipun, our protagonist, does not only try to save them as a messiah, but is motivated by his selfish needs and wants to escape his inevitable failure of a future. He is full of remorse and sadness to leave his family and friends. Follow this grade schooler's journey of child-like excuses and childish lies as he navigates the last day on Bhu (earth).