MAMACITA

by José Pablo Estrada Torrescano
  • 2018 Fruitmarket Kultur und Medien GmbH
  • 2018 Fruitmarket Arts & Media GmbH
  • 2018 Fruitmarket Arts & Media GmbH

    Synopsis

    José Pablo promised his extravagant grandmother, Mamacita, to make a film about her life, without knowing that this would lead to revelation of secrets, lies and deceptions affecting 5 generations of a highsociety Mexican family.

    Mamacita is an extravagant Mexican beauty queen living in her own kingdom in company of her loyal servants: gardener, chauffeur, chef, housekeeper and nurses. The 95-year-old lady has turned her house into a castle, hiding the open wounds of a prominent Mexican upper class family behind its stonewalls. When José Pablo went abroad to study film, Mamacita made him promise to return to Mexico one day to make a film about her life. He conquers his granny’s empire like a Trojan horse, discovering the haunted spirits of his own past and the lack of love that his entire clan has suffered from for generations.

    Festivals

    a.o. 2018
    Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (world premiere)
    DOK.fest Munich, Germany
    21 GiFF - GuanoJuato International Film Festival, Mexico
    American Museum of National History, NY USA
    Margaret Mead Film Festival, NYC, USA
    Kassel DokFest, Germany

    2019
    CDMX, Femme Revolution Film Fest
    Ojo Loco, Torrescano,
    Ethnocineca - International Documentary Film Festival Vienna

    Cast and Crew

    Director

    José Pablo Estrada Torrescano

    Producer

    José Pablo Estrada Torrescano, Arne Birkenstock

    Editor

    Mechthild Barth

    DoP

    Juan Sánchez Tamez