ANTES DE MADRID
Projects in development
FEATURE FILM
THE VISITORS
SCRIPT AND DIRECTION: LUCÍA NIETO SALAZAR
Helena (27) expects a guest to visit, but receives two, unaware that one of them is linked to a forgotten trauma from her past.
SHORT FILM
FLYING SAUCER
SCRIPT AND DIRECTION: RAMIRO FIRME AND SANTIAGO MUSETTI
Uruguay, 2005. Ramiro (12) decides to escape from his mother on New Year's Eve to help his cousin and his troubled group of friends in the search for some mares that mysteriously disappeared in the countryside.
SHORT FILM
STRANGE HOUSE
SCRIPT AND DIRECTION: LUCÍA CARMELA MARTÍNEZ ECHAGÜE
Candela (19) finds an unknown neighbor who is about to bring his keys. She invites him to wait inside her house, but time passes and help does not arrive...
SHORT FILM
THE TANGERINE TREE
SCRIPT AND DIRECTION: NICOLÁS BOTANA
Valentina (42) and Julia (38) will try to fulfill their father's dream: throw his ashes where there once was a tangerine tree when he was a boy. Upon arrival, the new owner of the house is not willing for this to happen.
SHORT FILM
STRANGE HOUSE
SCRIPT AND DIRECTION: LUCÍA CARMELA MARTÍNEZ ECHAGÜE
Candela (19) finds an unknown neighbor who is about to bring his keys. She invites him to wait inside her house, but time passes and help does not arrive...
WHAT IS SWEET CINEMA
We are a Uruguayan audiovisual production company with a fresh and sensitive look. We feel the call to accompany the new voices of cinema, getting involved in the gratifying path of bringing ideas and stories to the screen with sweetness and determination.
We get involved in each project attending to the specific needs of each one, being our priority to develop a collective process and continuous improvement.
ABOUT US
FACUNDO UMPIERREZ
FOUNDER, PRODUCER
Uruguay, 1993. Produces and develops several short films, video clips and projects that are selected at different national and international festivals, including Berlinale, Guadalajara and Short Film Corner Cannes.
ILEN JUAMBELTZ
D.E.P. DEVELOPMENTAL
Uruguay, 1994. Screenwriter and filmmaker graduated from the Filmmaking Career at ECU. She has directed and exhibited several award-winning short films. In 2021 she directed one of the stories of the international Netflix docu-series "Stories of a generation with Pope Francis". She is currently working on the development of her feature film "Ese todo que es solo mio" with Montelona Cine and co-writing the Colombian series "Fin de mes", both projects selected in the “Curso de Desarrollo de Proyectos Audiovisuales Iberoamericanos”.
