Mamacita
Cinema Documentary, Germany 2018, 75’
World Sales: Autlook Filmsales
José Pablo promised his extravagant grandmother, Mamacita, to make a film about her life, without knowing that this would lead to revelation of secrets lies and deceptions affecting 5 generations of a highsociety Mexican family.
Mamacita is an extravagant Mexican beauty queen living in her own kingdom in company of her loyal servants: gardener, chauffeur, chef, housekeeper and nurses. The 95-year-old lady has turned her house into a castle, hiding the open wounds of a prominent Mexican upper class family behind its stonewalls. When José Pablo went abroad to study film, Mamacita made him promise to return to Mexico one day to make a film about her life. He conquers his granny’s empire like a Trojan horse, discovering the haunted spirits of his own past and the lack of love that his entire clan has suffered from for generations.
Festivals & Awards:
- Femme Revulation FF - Mexico City
- Zürich IFF
- Festival de Cine De Lima
- Monterrey FF
- Doqumenta Mexico - opening film
- Opening Film @Guanajuato International Film Festival
- Margaret Mead film festival
- L.A. Film Fest - US premiere
- DOK.fest münchen 2018
- International premiere @Hot Docs 2018
Written & directed by José Pablo Estrada Torrescano
Producer - Arne Birkenstock
Editor – Mechthild Barth
DoP - Juan Sánchez Tamez
A Fruitmarket Arts & Media production
World sales: Autlook films
This film has been developed with the support of the dok.incubator workshop and supported by Film & Medienstiftung NRW and FFA