María Lourdes Cortés

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María Lourdes Cortés

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Lightning Falls Behind
1h 22m
Movie 2017

Lightning Falls Behind

Hernandez had already made films in Guatemala and Mexico and this time found inspiring locations, unusual atmosphere and enthusiastic young people in Costa Rica. In this consciously unpolished film, the rebellious girls Sole and Ana open the trunk of a car in grandma’s garden and find something they’d rather immediately forget.

Biography

A historian of Costa Rican and Central American cinema, she is a professor at the University of Costa Rica (UCR), a researcher at the New Latin American Cinema Foundation, and director of Cinergia (the Fund for the Promotion of Audiovisual Production in Central America and Cuba). She was director of the first Film and Television School at Veritas University and of the Costa Rican Film Production Center.

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