Dominga's Film Production Kit: The Time Before

The Time Before: 30 minute short

The film is financed by a grant from CPH DOX and by pre-sales, in-kind services and deferrals from the creative team. The shooting will take place on the Chiloé Island in Chile, using existing buildings and local nature (beaches, forests, etc.) as locations. A small crew will film non-professional actors over a period of 10 days. The project will be presented at the BAFICI FF’s Buenos Aires Lab in March 2013 (part of the DOX: LAB’s programme), which will allow the crew to fly out to South America and combine that with location scouting, shooting and other pre- and post-production activities. The film is set to be ready in October 2013, for the next edition of the CPH:DOX festival.

My readers will see that this combines my two favorite parts of the world, Latin America and Central-Eastern Europe. 

Synopsis:
A group of people gather for a family reunion in a house on an isolated island. They are waiting for the last person to join them, but as the evening arrives and he doesn’t arrive, a strange anxiety overwhelms them. The group dismantles and the family members wander away from the house separately, confronting the sea and an unspoken fear that slowly consumes them.

Written and Directed by:
Dominga Sotomayor & Katarzyna Klimkiewicz

Produced by:
Rebeca Gutierrez, Jan Naszewski, Katarzyna Klimkiewicz, Dominga Sotomayor