Sin Cielo shares the story of a teenage girl living in Mexico. Sin Cielo is a breathtaking love story set in Mexico. Before making the film, Jianna Maarten traveled alone to dangerous parts of the country and stayed with underprivileged families, many of them knew someone whose daughters had been abducted or who feared for their lives.
A young boy in a Mexican border town hustles any way he can to help his family but learns some very cruel realities when the girl he likes disappears. Based on true stories from La Frontera.
Jianna Maarten got her degrees in Storytelling as a Director at the American Film Institute’s Conservatory program and in Columbia University’s prestigious Creative Writing program. Maarten was nominated by the Atlanta Film Festival as a Filmmaker to Watch. Whether they be Sci-Fi, horror, drama, or Satirical, Maarten enjoys building complex multi-layered worlds firmly rooted in reality through the characters who inhabit them.
This topical film has been in contention and won top accolades at numerous high profile film festivals around the world. Sin Cielo took home the Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival, the Young Jury Prize at Palm Springs Shorts Fest, the Grand Jury, Audience Award and Best of Fest Prize at Ivy Film Festival as well as official selections at the Los Angeles Film Festival, HBO’s NY Latino Film Festival, Urbanworld, Brussels, Cork International.
This important female-led drama was produced by Daria Suvorova, the stunning cinematography was created by Marcin Banasiak and the music was composed by Bartek Gliniak.
The distribution agency Salaud Morisset, whose recent short Skin won the 2019 Academy Award for Live Action Short is representing the film.
Sin Cielo can soon be seen at Marfa Film Festival, Calcutta Cult International Film Festival, Pennsylvania Indie Shorts Film Festival and I Filmmaker International.
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