WE ARE HERE - FYC — 271 films (2024)

WE ARE HERE

Four young immigrants intimately reveal their hopes and dreams as they navigate a perilous system that defines their fate and freedom.

“A POIGNANT and TIMELY portrait of lives in a disheartening limbo that uses avant-garde animation to enhance the affecting stories of its courageous subjects.” -Carlos Aguilar, Film Critic.

“A VISUAL SPECTACLE! ”- Calum Cooper, Flickfeast

"Roger Ebert once called cinema “a machine for generating empathy” Shorts like We Are Hereembody this saying to the core" -Calum Cooper, Flickfeast

By now, ‘WE ARE HERE’ has been to over 30 festivals and won 2 awards – 1 of them from Oscar-qualifying festival.

AWARDS

• 2022 Animated Shorts Jury Award - New Hampshire Film Festival *Oscar Qualifying

• 2022 Grand Jury Prize for International Fragments - DocsMX

FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS + SPECIAL SCREENINGS

• Chicago Latino Film Festival, Chicago, IL - 2023

• Miami Film Festival, Miami, FL - March 7, 2023

• Justice Film Festival, NY, NY - March 1-4, 2023

• Oaxaca FilmFest, Oaxaca, Mexico - December 9, 2022

• Official Latino Film and Arts Festival, Palm Springs, CA - December 9, 2022

• 3ra Edición Semana de Cine Migrante, Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico - December 5-11, 2022

• Flickers' RIIFF Encore Series, Boston University - November 29, 2022

• Festival Internacional de Cine de Almería, Spain Premiere - November 18, 2022

• Pittsburgh Shorts, Pittsburgh, PA - November 17, 2022

• Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC- November 16, 2022

• Still Voices Film Festival, Ireland Premiere, Ireland - November 12, 2022

• deadCenter Film | Oklahoma City Special Screening - November 11, 2022

• DOC NYC, New York City Premiere, NY, NY - November 9, 2022

• SCAD Savannah Film Festival, Savannah, GA - October 22, 2022

• DocsMX, Mexico City, Mexico - October 16, 2022, WINNER of the 2022 Grand Jury Prize for International Fragments

• New Hampshire Film Festival - October 6, 2022, WINNER of the 2022 Animated Shorts Jury Award

• Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Hot Springs, Arkansas - October 12, 2022

• Indie Street Film Festival, New Jersey, NY - September 7, 2022

• Tallgrass Film Festival - Wichita, Kansas - September 2, 2022

• Salute Your Shorts Festival , Los Angeles, CA - August 20, 2022

• Hollyshorts, Los Angeles, CA - August 18, 2022

• Rhode Island International Film Festival - August 8, 2022

• Doqumenta Festival de Cine, Queretaro, Mexico - August 7, 2022

• Guanajuato International Film Festival, Guanajuato, Mexico - July 21, 2022

• Nantucket Film Festival, Nantucket, MA- June 24, 2022

• Pyeongchang International Peace Film Festival, Asia Premiere, South Korea - June 23, 2022

• Palm Springs International ShortFest, Palm Springs, CA - June 21, 2022

• Barnes Film Festival, UK Premiere, London, England - June 18 + 19, 2022

• Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara, Mexico Premiere, Guadalajara, Mexico - June 12 +14, 2022

• The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, Los Angeles Premiere, LA, CA- June 4, 2022

• Cleveland International Film Festival, Cleveland, OH – April 4, 2022

• LACMA- Los Angeles, CA - March 23, 2022

• Sundance Film Festival - World Premiere, United States - January 20, 2022

CREDITS

Directors | Doménica Castro, Constanza Castro

Writers | Doménica Castro, Constanza Castro and Salvador Pérez García

Producers | Doménica Castro, Constanza Castro

Executive Producers | Eloy Méndez, Scott Minerd, Carlos López Estrada, Kelly Marie Tran

Visual Art & Animation | Cecilia Reeve

Editing | Salvador Pérez García

Music| Jesi Nelson

Color | Jill Bogdanowicz

Sound | One Thousand Birds