SAM POSTER

Chingaza

It all starts with Auxi's idea to make a trip to Chingaza. She made all the preparations and the day finally came. We left Friday 23th of April at 6:30 in the morning. The road trip lasted three hours and it was really fun. We listened to music and played games. When we arrived the guides gave us a talk about the barren's importance. Right after that the hike started.  The first part was through the woods and we were going up to the oriel. The sights were absolutely stunning. We could see de lagoon and the beautiful vegetation. Going down was the hardest part of all because it was really muddy. When we finally got to the main road, we walked all over to the main camp again and we had lunch. It was actually a little messy because everyone thought that we weren't going to walk anymore so everybody changed clothes to the ones dry and comfy that we had brought and it turned out that we were actually going to the river as a last walk before returning back to school. As before it was really complicated to walk through that muddy field but it was really funny to see all de people falling and laughing, it was awesome. The buses picked us up there by the river and we started our journey. It was really quiet because everyone was so tired so we fell asleep. The traffic was really heavy in the Via La Calera, it took us a long time to get to the school.

Making the movie

Film festival opinion

Our Opinion

For us, participating in the Film Festival this year was a really great experience, despite the various drawbacks presented, we thoroughly enjoyed every moment in the preparation of the film and in its editing and presentation and we also learned a lot about the topic we work on.

Undoubtedly, we would like to have the opportunity to re-participate in this type of activities as much as possible.

Sam dossiere

INDEX

1. Introduction
2. Data Sheet
3. Synopsis 
4. Script
5. Storyboard
6. Sierra Nevada Natural Park
7. Opinion

1. Introduction

For the Film Festival, we wanted to do an original idea so that’s how we created this fantastic movie inspired in life of young people who aren’t comfortable being them and they want to be of the other sex.

We wanted to make people aware about this problem that transgenders suffer constantly and causes physiological damages such as depression and anxiety that can finish in a suicide.  

2. Data Sheet

Title: SAM

Year: 2017

Genre: Drama

Duration: 2:23 minutes

Language: English

Country: Colombia

Director: Camila Forero

Edition: Nicolás Imaz

Executive Producer: Juan Luis Ávila

Cast: Alejandra Cote (Sam as Girl), Nicolás Imaz (Sam as Boy)

Release Date: March 24, 2017

Producer: Sierra Nevada Productions

3. Script

The camera shows the protagonist from head to toes, emphasising her tattoo. She starts walking and everyone look at her like she did something wrong or like something is wrong with here. She wants to change schools, because she is being bullied. When she applies to a catholic school, she gets rejected by the headmaster. She goes home, and cries in her room. She feels lonely and miserable. Then, she goes to a nightclub with her friends, but the bouncer won’t let her in because of her condition. She also goes to a restaurant, and they won’t let her in. She gets tired of her life, and she is very frustrated. In the end, she looks in the mirror and the camera emphasises in her tattoo again. In the end, the camera also shows different moments, but from a different perspective.

4. Synopsis

Sam, is a teenager, who’s frustrated by society’s intolerance. As the movie goes on, Sam is discriminated by a lot of people, including headmasters, friends, bouncers, waiters… Then, shestarts to get tired, and decides to find out what’s wrong with her. 

5. Storyboard

            6. Sierra Nevada Natural Park

The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is an isolated mountain range separated from the Andes chain that runs through Colombia. Reaching an altitude of 5,700 m (18,700 ft.) just 42 km (26 mi) from the Caribbean coast, the Sierra Nevada is one of the world's highest coastal ranges, being a few hundred feet shorter than the Saint Elias Mountains in Canada. The Sierra Nevada encompasses about 17,000 km2 (6,600 sq. mi) and serves as the source of 36 rivers. The range is in the Departments of Magdalena, Cesar and La Guajira.

The highest point of the Sierra Nevada group (and Colombia in general) may be either Pico Cristóbal Colón or Pico Simón Bolívar both in the municipalities of Santa Marta and Aracataca; it has yet to be determined which is higher. SRTM data and local topographic maps show that their true elevations are approximately 5,700 m (18,700 ft.), lower than the 5,775 m (18,947 ft.) elevation that is often quoted.

The Sierra Nevada is a compact group, relatively small in area, and surrounded by lands with elevations below 200 m (660 ft.). Although it is associated with the Tropical Andes, the main backbone of the Andes cannot be reached from the Sierra Nevada without dropping below this level. This makes its highest point the world's fifth most prominent summit.

Several peaks in the Sierra Nevada are intervisible with Cerro Paramillo, a 3,730 m (12,240 ft.) peak in Antioquia Department. This implies a theoretical direct line of sight of just over 500 km (310 mi), reported to be the longest between any two points on the surface of the Earth. 

7. Opinion

We think this kind of activities are awesome for our learning process and teach us how is to work in a group, although we are friends, we had some little problems in the organization and in the labors of each one.

We congratulate the English Department for the effort that has done for this activity, that is totally different to be writing in our notebooks, but we suggest that more professionals, like directors or animators can help us for do high-level movies,