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Best Animated Short Film

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WE ARE HERE

Four young immigrants intimately reveal their hopes and dreams as they navigate a perilous system that defines their fate and freedom.

“A POIGNANT and TIMELY portrait of lives in a disheartening limbo that uses avant-garde animation to enhance the affecting stories of its courageous subjects.”  -Carlos Aguilar, Film Critic.

“A VISUAL SPECTACLE! ” - Calum Cooper, Flickfeast

"Roger Ebert once called cinema “a machine for generating empathy” Shorts like We Are Here embody this saying to the core" - Calum Cooper , Flickfeast 


By now, ‘WE ARE HERE’ has been to over 30 festivals and won 2 awards – 1 of them from Oscar-qualifying festival.

AWARDS

  • 2022 Animated Shorts Jury Award - New Hampshire Film Festival *Oscar Qualifying

  • 2022 Grand Jury Prize for International Fragments - DocsMX

 FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS + SPECIAL SCREENINGS

  • Chicago Latino Film Festival, Chicago, IL - 2023

  • Miami Film Festival, Miami, FL - March 7, 2023

  • Justice Film Festival, NY, NY - March 1-4, 2023

  • Oaxaca FilmFest, Oaxaca, Mexico - December 9, 2022 

  • Official Latino Film and Arts Festival, Palm Springs, CA - December 9, 2022

  • 3ra Edición Semana de Cine Migrante, Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico - December 5-11, 2022

  • Flickers' RIIFF Encore Series, Boston University - November 29, 2022

  • Festival Internacional de Cine de Almería, Spain Premiere - November 18, 2022

  • Pittsburgh Shorts, Pittsburgh, PA - November 17, 2022

  • Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC- November 16, 2022

  • Still Voices Film Festival, Ireland Premiere, Ireland - November 12, 2022

  • deadCenter Film | Oklahoma City Special Screening - November 11, 2022

  • DOC NYC, New York City Premiere, NY, NY - November 9, 2022

  • SCAD Savannah Film Festival, Savannah, GA - October 22, 2022

  • DocsMX, Mexico City, Mexico - October 16, 2022, WINNER of the 2022 Grand Jury Prize for International Fragments

  • New Hampshire Film Festival - October 6, 2022, WINNER of the 2022 Animated Shorts Jury Award

  • Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Hot Springs, Arkansas - October 12, 2022

  • Indie Street Film Festival, New Jersey, NY - September 7, 2022

  • Tallgrass Film Festival - Wichita, Kansas - September 2, 2022

  • Salute Your Shorts Festival , Los Angeles, CA - August 20, 2022

  • Hollyshorts, Los Angeles, CA - August 18, 2022 

  • Rhode Island International Film Festival - August 8, 2022

  • Doqumenta Festival de Cine, Queretaro, Mexico - August 7, 2022

  • Guanajuato International Film Festival, Guanajuato, Mexico - July 21, 2022

  • Nantucket Film Festival, Nantucket, MA- June 24, 2022

  • Pyeongchang International Peace Film Festival, Asia Premiere, South Korea - June 23, 2022

  • Palm Springs International ShortFest, Palm Springs, CA - June 21, 2022

  • Barnes Film Festival, UK Premiere, London, England - June 18 + 19, 2022

  • Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara, Mexico Premiere, Guadalajara, Mexico  - June 12 +14, 2022

  • The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, Los Angeles Premiere, LA, CA- June 4, 2022

  • Cleveland International Film Festival, Cleveland, OH – April 4, 2022

  • LACMA - Los Angeles, CA - March 23, 2022

  • Sundance Film Festival - World Premiere, United States - January 20, 2022 

CREDITS

Directors | Doménica Castro, Constanza Castro

Writers | Doménica Castro, Constanza Castro and Salvador Pérez García

Producers | Doménica Castro, Constanza Castro

Executive Producers | Eloy Méndez, Scott Minerd, Carlos López Estrada, Kelly Marie Tran 

Visual Art & Animation |  Cecilia Reeve 

Editing | Salvador Pérez García

Music | Jesi Nelson

Color | Jill Bogdanowicz

Sound | One Thousand Birds