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Owner’s Portrait

Owner’s Portrait

Joaquin Maito
Arg. 2018. 80’

There’s an island far away from the map where there are no more humans, money or work. Only remains a community of cats that transmits a libertarian message through antennas, which immediately spread that frequencies throughout the planet. The dogs are the first beings to hear those sounds. Meanwhile, the workers lose their lives working in the factory. In New Year’s Eve, under the enormous fireworks all over the sky, domestic animals take advantage and start to escape from their prisons, to create from the ruins their own freedom. But the owners go out to look for them. In that quest, they listen the voices of past revolutions and wonder if a new world can be built.

Direction: Joaquin Maito
Production: Romina Beraldi and Joaquin Maito
Cinematographer and Camera: Joaquín Maito
Editing: Tatiana Mazú and Manuel Embalse
Sound Direction: Catriel Vildosola
Executive production: Romina Beraldi
Theremin: Nahuel Palacios
Assistant directors: Ignacio Oyuela, Tomás Capelli, Delfina Carlota Vazquez, Florencia Azorin and Kazuyuki Ono
Image Postproduction: Zebra Films – Juan Martín Hsu
Mixing operator: Roberto Migone (ASA) / Sound Rec mixing studio
Translations and subtitles: Stefania Powazniak

Festivals

Ji.hlava – First Lights – Czech Republic – 2018
Awarded as Best First Feature film
New Horizons – Visual Front – Poland – 2019
Festifreak (International Independent Film Festival of La Plata) – Argentine Feature Film Competition – Argentina – 2019
Al Este Argentina – Panorama – Argentina –2019
Márgenes Festival – Official Section – Spain – 2019
Corriente No Ficción – Views in Crisis – Peru – 2020