Documentaries:

EN EL HOYO

(In the Pit)

Spanish/English subtitles
Mexico / 2006 / 80 min
10, Sep, 2007 - 9:30 pm
Pacific Cinémathèque
Director: Juan Carlos Rulfo
Producer: Juan Carlos Rulfo
Screenwriter: Juan Carlos Rulfo
Executive Producer: Eugenia Montiel
Cinematographer: Juan Carlos Rulfo
Editor: Valentina Leduc
Sound: Natalia Bruschtein
Sound Editors: Samuel Larson, Valentina Leduc
Composer: Leonardo Heiblum
Cast: Sofía García López, Isabel Dolores Hernández, José Guadalupe Calzada, Pedro Sánchez Bernal, Natividad Sánchez, Isahín Octaviano Simón, Agustín Zárate Centeno, Vecencio Martínez Vásquez
Mexican legend recounted that for every bridge being built the devil would ask for one soul, in exchange for the bridge never to fall. This film tells the story of the workers who are participating in the construction of a second deck to Mexico City’s inner periférico freeway. This second deck is about to transform the city, its landscape and the lives of its inhabitants. It is the story of those whose hands and sweat go into the making of this mammoth work of concrete, steel and asphalt. The workers’ daily lives, their hopes, their dreams and their dignity for survival. Contrasts, emotions, and small moments that shall culminate in the loss of a soul taken by the devil; a soul that will remain as a memory of the workers who built the second deck.

Una leyenda mexicana cuenta que el diablo pide un alma por cada puente construido a cambio de que éste nunca se caiga. Esta película sigue la historia de varios de los obreros que participan en la construcción de El Segundo Piso, en el periférico de la ciudad de México. Aunque en realidad todo esto es puro pretexto, la idea es la de acercarnos a la cotidianidad, a los sueños y a la extraordinaria dignidad para vivir el humor, el romance y los pequeños momentos que culminarán en el alimento que el diablo necesita para que ese puente permanezca en pie.
Awards: Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Documentary Jury Prize Winner 2006

Preceding Short: 5:55 (Mexico / 9 min)
Sponsored by: La Vanguardia de Vancouver