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Being Impossible
''Being Impossible'', originally released as ''Yo, imposible'' (English: ''I, Impossible'' or ''Impossible Me'') is a 2018 Venezuelan drama film created by Patricia Ortega. It features an intersex main character played by Colombian actress Lucía Bedoya, who has been widely praised for her performance. The film has been shown internationally at many festivals, and won several awards, including six at the Venezuelan Film Festival. Despite suffering many production setbacks due to the Crisis in Venezuela, the film was released in various countries between 2018 and 2020. The film has been critically reviewed, with a mixed response, and analyzed in depth by film and intersex issue writers. It was selected as the Venezuelan entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Synopsis Ariel (Lucía Bedoya) is a 20-year-old woman who works as a seamstress in a clothing factory, though fee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Ortega
Patricia Ortega (Venezuelan , born 1977) is a Venezuelan film director. She has won multiple accolades, particularly for her 2018 film '' Being Impossible''. Early life Ortega says that she has been a movie lover since she was young, and so the decision to become a filmmaker was natural. She has studied journalism at university. Career Ortega studied at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in Cuba, specialising in Film Direction. After creating some short films, Ortega became president of the independent Venezuelan production company Mandrágora Films in 2009. In the next ten years, she made ten short fiction and documentary films with the company; in 2013 she directed her first feature film, ''El regreso'' (English: ''The Return''), which saw a wide commercial release in cinemas across Venezuela. Her second feature film, '' Being Impossible'' (Spanish: ''Yo, imposible''), however, did well internationally and has yet to be released in her home nation. Ortega has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |