THE SCOURGE
Carlos Agustín Fuentes is a social worker responsible for a Child Care Center for Juvenile Justice, located in the El Alto area, in the city of Bariloche. Emiliano is a coworker who tries to undermine the role of Carlos in order to ascend to its position. Meanwile Carlos is abandoned by Analía, his partner, leaving him alone in charge of his invalid mother. The arrival of two minors, Javier and Luis, reveals the administrative cracks leading the Center to a critical situation where the resolution does not admit delays.
Year: 2017
Duration: 89 minutos
Genre: Fiction
Argentina
TECHNICAL CREW
Script, Production, Direction: José Celestino Campusano
Executive Production: Leonardo Padín, Mónica Amarilla
Production Chief: Miguel Ángel Rossi
Assistant Direction: Marcos Izaguirre
Locations Chief: Constanza Rojas Domper
Photography and Cameraman: Eric Elizondo
2° Assistant Direction: Mariángeles Casella
Assistant Production: Tatiana Cannistraci
Art: Verónica Manzanares
Costume: Jazmín Fernandez Murgic
Make up: Manuela Segovia
Still Photo: Gustavo Grassano
Sound Recordist: Nahuel Reyes Sosa
Sound Recordist Assistant: Lázaro De Giovanni
Gaffer: Fabián Forte
1º Camera Assistant: Sebastián Bravo Almonacid
2º Camera Assistant: Mario Varela
Key Grip: Horacio Florentín
Utilero: Emilio Sánchez
Lighting Technician Chief: Matías Moccia
Lighting Technician: Miguel Garcés
Direction Trainee: Nahir Jalil
Production Trainee: Matías Tapia, Aysha Mayor
Edition: Horacio Florentín
Music: Claudio Miño
Sound Postproduction: Assiz Alcaraz Baxter, Nahuel Horacio Reyes Sosa
Sound MIx: Gerardo Kalmar
Image Post Production: Lahaye Post
Finishing: Damián Bentrón
Colorist: David Vargas
CAST
Carlos: Kiran Sharbis
Emiliano: Facundo Sáenz Sañudo
Alicia: Nadia Fleitas
Carlos’s mother: Ana María Conejeros
Javier: Gastón Cardozo
Luis: Federico Romero
Analía: Lihue Vizcaíno
Seer: Diana Huusmann
Director: Jorge Onofri
Víctor: Pablo Sebastián Reyes
Saleswoman: Adriana Castelli
Policeman 1: Rubén Olivares
Nurse 1: Cintia Oliva
Javier’s mother: Alicia Tealdi
Javier’s father: Rubén Fernández
Luis’s mother: Susana Da Silva Evora
Teenager 1: Juan Fernández Morato
Teenager2: Julio César Román
Teenager 3: Jonathan Villegas
Police woman: Melody Guerra
Sub-commissioner: Maximiliano Altieri
Teacher: Cecilia Mora
Teenager 4: Fernando Caro
Teenager 5: Carlos Javier Parra
Social Worker: María Sol Sánchez Tamer
Doctor: Leonardo Espíndola
Nurse 2: Camila Vicente
Policeman 2: Horacio Paradela
Policeman 3: Mauricio Biava
Policeman 4: Ayrton Marín
Policeman 5: Fabián Ampuero
Young: Francisco Spadano
Polish: Ximena Miranda
Analía’s brother: Agustín Saenz
Luis’s aunt: Verónica Tessoni
FESTIVALS
- 32° Mar del Plata International Film Festival – Argentina.
AWARD: BEST FILM ARGENTINE COMPETITION
- 47° IFFR ROTTERDAM, 2018, International Premiere
- 19° JEONJU IFF 2018 – COREA