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César Augusto Acevedo (Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, 1987) es un guionista y director de cine colombiano, premiado en el Festival de Cannes 2015 por su película La tierra y la sombra.
- On What Inspired The Film
- On The Film’S Poetic Style
- On Why Audiences Worldwide Have Connected with The Film
- On Colombian Cinema Culture
- On Hollywood’s Possible Takeover
Well, I’m from that region — the Valle del Cauca — and all my life I lived within those sugar cane plantations. But at the start this was a film really about my family. It’s a film that was very personal to me that I began thinking about after my mother passed away. I wanted to reclaim, in film, that lost loved one, but then I quickly realized that...
Well, from the very beginning I knew there’d be very little dialogue because this is a story of a broken people who cannot express their feelings in words. So we began looking for ways to materialize those feelings via images and sounds. In looking for a metaphorical way in, we attempted to create a much more poetic type of film, which is the type ...
On the one hand I think its the formal aspects of the film. At a time when the majority of films are just throwing images at you, and give you no time to really see or feel much, this film gives you, in a way, an opportunity to live and share things with these characters. And on the other hand, I think what’s most important is that it’s a story tie...
Well, our film culture is living a great moment but it is still a work in progress. When the first “Ley del Cine” was written into law twelve or so years ago, Colombia produced a mere one or two films a year. But now in 2015 I think we released 50 or 60. And with that number of productions there’s cinema for all types of moviegoers. The government ...
That said, the future doesn’t look all that promising. Just now they approved a second Ley de Cine which looks to entice foreign productions — Hollywood in particular — to come and shoot their films here, and they’re offering a lot of financial incentives. For example, if a Hollywood film comes to shoot here, they will get 40% of their investment b...
Land and Shade (Spanish: La tierra y la sombra) is a 2015 drama film written and directed by César Augusto Acevedo. It was screened in the Critics' Week section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Caméra d'Or, France 4 Visionary Award and SACD Award.
Jun 16, 2016 · The writer and director, César Augusto Acevedo, has set his movie among the sugar farmers of the Valle del Cauca region in Colombia. They work long hours in the fields — the cane leaves, we’re...
- César Augusto Acevedo
Oct 6, 2021 · One of Chile’s preeminent international film producers, Giancarlo Nasi at Quijote Films, has boarded “Horizon,” the much-awaited sophomore outing of César Augusto Acevedo, director of ...
- Emilio Mayorga
Interview by Xavier Leherpeur. “The idea for this film was born of personal pain. At the time I began writing the screenplay my mother was dead, my father was a ghost, and given my inability to generate memories, they seemed completely lost to me.
César Augusto Acevedo García, born in Cali in 1987, directed and wrote the screenplay for Land and Shade (2015), the first Colombian film ever to win the Caméra d'Or at Cannes, the highest international accolade to date for Colombian cinema. “I’m amazed by this award. Thanks to the jury, thanks to everyone who made the film possible. I want to especially thank my producers, the entire ...
