Closed Door

Title: Closed Door
Original Title: Puerta Cerrada
Lenght: 30'
Year: 1997
Produced by: Foto Club 76, Emilio Oscar Alcalde, José Luís Orbegozo
Director: Emilio Oscar Alcalde
Screenplay: Antonio Conte, Emilio Oscar Alcalde
Cast: Jorge Cao and María Fernanda Martínez
Director of photography and camera: Gabor Bene
Camera assistant: Manuel Álvarez
Production manager: José Luís Orbegozo
Executive producer: Carlos Guerrero
Field producer: Adelfa Martínez
Director assistant: Erick Rocha
Editor: Julián Mejia
Sound recording: Ascensión Peralta
Sound engineer: Manuel Hernández
Lighting: Alejandro Marquez
Art director: Marta Arias
Make-up artist: Guillermo Sierra
Still photography: Claudia Rubio
Music: Giusseppe Verdi, Vicentico Valdes

 
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Film Festivals

  • 38th International Film Festival of Cartagena, Colombia, 1998
  • 26th Film Festival of Huesca, Spain, 1998
  • International Film Festival of Court-Métrage à Clermont-Ferrand, 1998
  • I Festival of Alternative Cuban Cinema, Special Presentation, Miami, USA, 2003
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Comments

Debut

In a country where new national feature films are hardly shown, the opportunity that the public can even register the production of short and mid length films it is even stranger.

One of the those unusual opportunities will happen this week when on August 13, it will make its debut at the District Cinemateca of Bogota, the film Closed Door, starred by María Fernando Martínez and Jorge Cao under the direction of Emilio Alcalde.

Produced by Alcalde himself, José Luis Orbegozo and Foto Club 76. The film tells about the claustrophobic encounter, at the capital's apartment, between a Cuban journalist that comes to Bogotá in search of shelter and his former lover, in an attempt to recover the lost years. A film that talks about loneliness, but also about love and hope in the closed circle of a society more individualistic each day.

Semana Magazine, Augost 10, 1998, Colombia


Seldom a short film awakens controversy like Closed Door, directed by cuban Emilio Alcalde. Though the movie critics have been hard on the comments, Jorge Cao and María Fernanda Martínez, stars of the film, defend it saying you have to see it with different eyes..."It is a simbolic film that allows each spectator draw his or her own conclusions". Neither of the actors charged for their performance, since the director only had a $20,000 budget to make it. The poetic texts and intelligent were the ones that really motivated the artists to participate in this project, that among other things, it cost Jorge Cao a trip to the hospital. The case is that, he filmed Closed Door until six in the morning and from there he would go to Caracol Studios to act in The President's Woman unbtil six in the afternoon. Due to the excess of work, he had an overstrain. Closed Door tells about the story of two lovers who can not bear reality. The film will be exhibited at the movie theaters in Medellín, Cali and Bucaramanga.

Aló Magazine, September 11, 1998, Colombia.