7 cajas
- Tana Schémbori Juan Carlos Maneglia
- Paraguay
- 105 min.
- Films in Progress 20 / San Sebastián 2011
It’s Friday in Asunción and the temperature is 40ºC. Victor, a 17 years-old wheelbarrow boy, dreams of becoming famous and can’t take his eyes off a TV set in Paraguay’s Mercado 4. He’s offered the chance to deliver seven boxes without knowing what they contain in exchange for 100$. But what sounded like an easy job soon gets complicated. Inside the boxes is something that everyone wants.
Tana Schémbori
Juan Carlos Maneglia and Tana Schémbori are licensed in Communication Sciences and their passion is film. Both seek their own language and a Paraguayan film to identify them. Together they made short films that got international awards and TV series that contributed to the consolidation of fiction in Paraguayan television. 7 cajas is their first feature film.
Juan Carlos Maneglia
Juan Carlos Maneglia and Tana Schémbori are licensed in Communication Sciences and their passion is film. Both seek their own language and a Paraguayan film to identify them. Together they made short films that got international awards and TV series that contributed to the consolidation of fiction in Paraguayan television. 7 cajas is their first feature film.
Production notes
The background of PRODUCERS MANEGLIA SCHÉMBORI lies in the shorts made by MANEGLIA in the 80’s. As from 1990. he and schémbori started co-directing short films, TV series and serials. MANEGLIA always visited Asuncion’s Mercado 4 and, fascinated by the place, started observing its barrowboys. That’s when he came up with the outline of the plot for 7 Cajas, creating a tale of suspense set in the Market, and underworld with its own codes, with different characters and spaces of a visual wealth never represented on screen.
- Original title
- 7 cajas
- International title
- 7 crates
- Direction
- Tana Schémbori, Juan Carlos Maneglia
- Country
- Paraguay
- Scenario
- Juan Carlos Maneglia
- Picture
- Richard Careaga
- Cutting
- Juan Carlos Maneglia - Juan Zelada
- Actors
- Celso Franco, Nico García, Víctor Sosa, Lali González
- Original version
- Espagnol
- Awards
Premio Cinéma en Construction – Festival de San Sebastián – España – 2011
- Trailer
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