LOS FUERTES
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Premiered 10/8/19 at Valdivia Intl Film Festival; OUTFEST 2020 Grand Jury Prize for Best International Narrative & Audience Award
Synopsis: Lucas travels to visit his sister in a remote town in southern Chile. In front of the ocean and the fog, he meets Antonio, a boatswain with a local fishing boat. When an intense romance grows between them, their strength, their independence and their adulthood become immovable in front of the tide.
Written and Directed by Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo
Omar earned in 2014 his Master in Fine Arts degree at New York University’s Graduate Film Program, which he attended with scholarships from the Fulbright Program, Chile’s Ministry of Education and Tisch School of the Arts. He directed Academy Award® Nominee James Franco and Zach Braff in a segment of the feature film The Color of Time. He premiered a San Cristóbal in Berlinale 2015, where it won the Teddy Award. His first feature, Los Fuertes, opened the 2019 Valdivia International Film Festival. He is a serial tea drinker who does not want to join Instagram, and he is a bit embarrassed to unconsciously fall into spanglish sometimes.
Omar has been involved on The Men and the River, The Ducks’ Migration, Niagara, Brussels, My New Song is Coming Along Great, November, Late to Die Young, Away,Los Fuertes, San Cristóbal, The weeds on the road, ALMA,Punto Final, Hablar de ti, Penal Cordillera and Untamed Helmets.