Official Selection - Competition 2009 / Oveja negra / Mexico 2009
Arthur flags down a truck on the motorway during the night. In order to stop his weary driver from falling asleep in front of the wheel, he tells him a gripping story about two friends – shepherds – who decide to take their hapless fate into their own hands. A tale of courage, adventure, love and friendship, in which the characters are confronted with their dreams.
Two young men, José and Kumbia, work at Don Leandro’s ranch herding sheep. But they’re sick of his bad treatment and so they think up a plan for turning their hapless future around. Perhaps they could steal the sheep and sell them at the Mexican-American border. But Leandro’s son Jeronimo is always at their heels, and he will do anything to make things tough for them. He knows that the loss of a single sheep would cost a shepherd his job. Years ago, the local priest brought eight-year-old José to the ranch and thought that the boys would become friends. But spoiled Jeronimo, who grew up without a mother, always treated José underhandedly despite the boy being his only friend. And when José finds a real friend in the similarly luckless Kumbia, Jeronimo’s malice overflows. On top of it all, María comes between Jeronimo and José, and the grandiose plan is threatened.... An "on the road” story (which a hitchhiker relates to a truck driver to keep him awake as they drive through the night) about the journey to the dreams that enrich us.
83 min / Color, 35 mm
International premiere
Director Humberto Hinojosa Ozcáriz
/ Screenplay Humberto Hinojosa Ozcáriz
/ Dir. of Photography Kenji Katori
/ Music Ernesto Paredano
/ Editor Juaquim Marti
/ Producer Pablo García Gatterer
/ Production Tigre Pictures
/ Cast Christian Vázquez, Rodrigo Corea, Ximena Romo, Iván Arana, Ricardo Ezquerra
/ Contact IMCINE - Mexican Film Institute, Tigre Pictures
www: www.ovejanegralapelicula.com
Humberto Hinojosa Ozcáriz (b. 1981, Mexico City) began working in television commercials as an actor and assistant director. He studied communication sciences at Iberoamericana University where, among others, he made the successful short 16mm film The Old Man (El viejo), which won the 7th International Festival of Film Schools in Kinoki, Mexico. Other short films: Second Slap (Segundo cachete), Happy End and El orbil. After working with various directors and producers, he decided to establish his own production company with associate, called Tigre Pictures. Black Sheep is his feature film debut. He is currently writing film scripts and making commercials.
IMCINE - Mexican Film Institute
, 03100, Mexico City
Mexico
Phone: +52 55 5448 5300, +52 55 5448 5399
E-mail: [email protected]
Tigre Pictures
Av. 5 de Mayo 492. Col Merced Gomez C.P., Alvaro obregon, 01600, Mexico City
Mexico
Phone: +52 55 939 177 ext. 1111
Fax: +52 55 939 177
E-mail: [email protected]
David Castellanos
Sales Agent
Humberto Hinojosa Ozcáriz
Film Director, Film Director
Pablo Garcia Gatterer
Producer
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