From writer director of
Ecuador para Largo
presents
Feature Film Production Award CNCINE / MINISTERIO DE CULTURA (Ecuador)
Dsitribution Award CNCINE / MINISTERIO DE CULTURA (Ecuador)
Visions Sud Est Production Award (Suiza)
Hubert Bals Fund for Script and Project Dvelopment para (Rotterdam Film Festival)
Produced with the Support of the IBERMEDIA PROGRAM
SYNOPSIS
En el Nombre de la Hija tells the story of a nine-year old girl whose name is in dispute.
Manuela has been named alter her socialist-atheist father, but her catholic-conservative grandmother
insists she should carry the name the first daughters of the family have carried for generations: Dolores.
The story takes place in a Valley in the Ecuadorian Andes, during the summer of 1976. Manuela and
her little brother, Camilo, are spending vacations with their cousins and grandparents at the family’s
farmhouse.
Eager to defend her father’s ideas, Manuela confronts her cousins and grandparents, but an unexpected
encounter leads her to confront herself instead.
Hidden in the family’s abandoned library, schizophrenic uncle Felipe is devoted to setting words free from
the constraints of dogmas. His wisdom sets Manuela free from her own dogmas and forever changes her
relationship with words, including her own name.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Genre:
Feature Fiction
Format:
35mm Film / Color / Dolby 5.1
Ratio:
1 x 1:85
Running time:
102 min.
Original Language:
Spanish
Production Company: Corporación Ecuador para Largo
Year of Production:
2011
MAIN CREW
Guión y Dirección:
Producción Ejecutiva:
Jefa de Producción:
Dirección de Arte:
Dirección de Fotografía:
Edición:
Sonido Directo y Edición de Sonido:
Jefe de Iluminación:
Música Original:
Música Adicional:
Tania Hermida P.
Mary Palacios y Tania Hermida P.
Paula Parrini
Juan Carlos Acevedo
Armando Salazar
Juan Carlos Donoso y Vanessa Amores
Juan José Luzuriaga
Jimmy Pazmiño
Nelson García
Javier Gangotena y Felipe Gangotena
CAST
Eva Mayu Mecham Benavides
Markus Amaru Mecham Benavides
Martina León
Sebastián Hormachea
Francisco Jaramillo
Paúl Curillo
Dianneris Díaz
Pancho Aguirre
Juana Estrella
Felipe Vega
Fabiola León
Miguel Rivera
Sebastián Lazo
Mónica Ugalde
Tatiana Ugalde
Javier Izquierdo
Manuela
Camilo
María Paz
Andrés
Emilio
Pepe
Juanita
Uncle Felipe
Grandmother Lola
Grandfather Emilio
Marianita
Father Esteban
Uncle León
Aunt Rosario
Dolores – Manuela’s mother
Manuel Agustín – Manuela’s father
WRITER DIRECTOR’S BIO-FILMOGRAPHY
Tania Hermida P.
Born in Cuenca, Ecuador. Tania studied Film Direction at the San Antonio de los Baños
International Film and TV School (Cuba, 1991), where she directed her first short films, both
documentary and fiction.
She obtained an MA in Cultural Studies at the Universidad del Azuay (2002) with a thesis on the
different notions of time in fiction film narration.
Tania combined her work as a filmmaker with teaching at the San Francisco de Quito University
between 1996 and 2007.
En el Nombre de la Hija (In the Name of the girl) is her second feature film. Her first feature film
as writer director, Qué tan Lejos (35mm feature film, 93min, 2006), obtained important
international awards including the Silver Zenith for feature films at the Montreal World film Festival
and the Coral Award for first films at the Havana Film Festival. It was also a national box office record
in Ecuador and was distributed successfully in Spain, France and Switzerland.
In 2007-2008 Tania participated as representative in the Constituent Assembly that wrote the new
Ecuadorian Constitution.
WRITER DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
Every revolution starts with the profanation of sacred symbols.
That’s the key idea behind En el Nombre de la Hija.
As independent filmmaker, I’m interested in exploring the process through which we humans manage
to reinvent our identity and recreate the meaning of life when our truths and certainties have been
menaced or dismantled. That’s the main concern in the script of En el Nombre de la hija, as it was
in my first feature film, Qué tan Lejos.
With my new film I intend to examine the power of symbols and their role in the configuration of our
identities. Can a girl achieve symbolic subversion in a world that rests upon indisputable truths?
When symbols are considered sacred and used to control and repress, their profanation is essential in
order to preserve our right to uncertainty and embrace the mystery of life.
I’d like to believe my film suggests those thoughts and incites those feelings.
CONTACTS:
INTERNATIONAL SALES AGENT:
Michael Weber
The Match Factory GmbH
Balthasarstrasse 79-81
50670 Cologne
Tel.: +49 221 539 70 9 - 50
Fax: +49 221 539 70 9 – 10
[email protected]
www.the-match-factory.com
PRODUCTION COMPANY:
CORPORACION ECUADOR PARA LARGO
Tel.Fax. (593-2) 255 4052
[email protected]
www.ecuadorparalargo.com