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La Vida

2024 · 12 min

A quiet, grounded short that sits with a teenager's quiet pressure and small hopes.

Directed by
Mauricio Alarcon
Genres
Drama
Starring
Emmanuel Ascencio, Zoë Valverde, Tanya Davis
Tagline
You wanna make the team, right?
Overview
Jorge, a son of Salvadoran immigrants strives to make his high school soccer team but finds himself weighed down by the need to take care of his younger sister during his father's unexpected absence.

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Directed by
Mauricio Alarcon
Genres
Drama
Starring
Emmanuel Ascencio, Zoë Valverde, Tanya Davis
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How it feels

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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • coming-of-age
  • parenthood
  • ambition
  • identity
Places
  • school
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Mauricio Alarcon
Written by
Mauricio Alarcon
Starring
Emmanuel Ascencio, Zoë Valverde, Tanya Davis, Roberto Medrano, Zusi Airhiavbere, Brittany Weir, Mauricio Alarcon
Cinematography
Sujay Khona
Runtime
12 min
Languages
English

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