Film Programme
Minute 200
fiction
Colombia, 2011, 18'30''
Director: Frank Benitez Peña
Producer: Angelica Clavijo
Director of photography: Jorge Garcia
Writer: Frank Benitez Peña
Composer: Juan Pablo Martinez (Songo Studio)
Editor: Jonathan Palomar
Synopsis: ORFA is 75-year-old woman who lives alone in her village home. One day a mailman give her a package sent from her only son, who she hasn't seen in a long time. Inside are a cell phone and a letter in which the son tells her he can't visit her and that she'll have to survive selling the airtime on the cell phone. Orfa resigns herself to waiting for death, convinced that it will come knocking on her door as soon as she has sold the last minute of airtime, loosing her last chance of having company.
Director: Frank Benitez Peña
A graduate of the National University of Colombia Film School and a Berlinale Talent Campus Alumni from 2005. He worked as assistant director on the feature "Karen cries in a bus" (2011) directed by Gabriel Rojas, world premiere at the Berlinale 61 . He has developed his work as writer, director and editor in several production companies.