Director: Oscar Ruíz Navia
Producer: Diana Bustamante
Screenplay: Oscar Ruíz Navia
Cinematographer: Sofia Oggioni Hatty, Andres Pineda.
Editor: Felipe Guerrero
Music: Gualajo
Principal Cast: Rodrigo Vélez, Arnobio Salazar, Jaime Andres Castano, Yisela Álvarez

Set in the Afro-Colombian community of La Barra on Colombia’s Pacific Coast, Crab Trap tells the story of both the drama of a young man trying to flee his past, and the upcoming clash between a remote village and modernity, represented by two intruding foreigners. Daniel arrives in the village looking for a boat to leave the country. In the meantime the villagers have their own issues: Cerebro, the leader of the community, is trying to adjust to the advent of modernity. The inhabitants never bothered to attest their ownership of the land they have lived on for many generations, until El Paisa, a landowner who wants to build a beach resort, arrived.

“I express myself not using an obvious language, but through metaphor.” – Oscar Ruíz Navia

 

La pelicula se desarrolla en La Barra, un alejado pueblo del pacífico colombiano, allí Cerebro, líder de los nativos Afrodescendientes, enfrenta fuertes contradicciones con el Paisa, poderoso terrateniente que planea la construcción de un hotel en la playa. Daniel, un citadino extraño y silencioso, llega una tarde cualquiera y permanece varios días en el sitio a la espera de una lancha clandestina que pueda sacarlo del país. La paciencia de Cerebro poco a poco se agota cuando una mañana El Paisa instala dos gigantescas bocinas en la playa y comienza la construcción de una barrera que dividirá el territorio. Daniel, intentando partir, quedará atrapado en la crisis del pueblo, cuya población se resistirá a desaparecer con la inminente llegada del progreso.

“Yo me expreso no a través del lenguaje obvio, sino a través de la metáfora.” – Oscar Ruíz Navia

Oscar Ruiz Navia was born in Cali, Colombia in 1982. After studying at the National Film and TV school of Colombia, he graduated in Social Communications at Valley University. Ruíz Navia worked as Assistant Director of Dog eat Dog by Carlos Moreno and Assistant Cinematographer of The Kings by Antonio Dorado and Others by Oscar Campo. In 2006 he founded Contravia Films, an independent production company. El Vuelco Del Cangrejo has been screened in a number of international film festivals, winning the Critics’ Prize at the Berlin Festival and Special Jury Prize at the Havana Film Festival.

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