VERTICES conquers the United States!!

Thrilled to announce that VERTICES, directed by Arturo López Rodas, has been officially selected for the 8th annual Centre Film Festival.

The screening will be November 3rd at the fabulous UEC Theatres.

VERTICES is El Salvador’s official entry at 99th Academy Awards® / Oscar contender for Best International Feature Film.

VERTICES is once again causing a stir on the US festival circuit. It recently won Best International Film Award at the Cobb International Film Festival in Georgia.

VERTICES is also in the running for the prestigious Premios Forqué/ Forqué Awards, organised by the Association of Hispanic-American Producers.

The whole of Latin America is full of hope for this marvellous debut feature by Arturo López Rodas.

SYNOPSIS:

Good old Andrés passed away. Ricardo, José and Francisco meet at his funeral, after not seeing each other in almost thirty years. They used to be close, but life pulled them apart. The three of them agree to get a cup of coffee right afterwards and catch up, for old time’s sake. Soon enough, they start to behave like they were never estranged, visiting old meeting places while discussing life’s trivialities and the inevitability of death

Arturo López Rodas about VERTICES:

Close friends usually grow apart over time. Life happens and treats people differently. The first draft of my script was about a group of old friends reuniting for someone’s birthday. I had just seen Tarkovsky’s “The Sacrifice” and I was inspired to make a story with a similar setting.
I sent my script to my good friend and filmmaker Francisco Menendez. I wanted his always wise feedback and, also, I wanted to shoot at the place where he grew up. His mom had passed a few months back and he was looking to turn the big old house into a true film school, which we don’t have in El Salvador.
“Of course”, he said. “I’ll read it on the weekend”. I don’t know if he ever read it. He had a heart attack a couple of days later.
I changed my script. Now it took place after a funeral.
Vertices is a story about death and the need to understand and assimilate everything that it entails. It’s about my friends, but it’s also about my father and my friends’ parents, who are no longer with us. It’s a little bit about the people who leave and a little more about the people who stay. It is a reflective exercise in which the actors integrated their life experiences and developed their characters, enriching the plot. I am eternally grateful to be able to share something so personal.