Francesca Canepa

THE SILENCE OF THE RIVER

EL SILENCIO DEL RIO

Peru, 2019, 14′

Juan, a 9 year-old kid, lives with his dad in a floating house across the Amazon river. Through an oneiric journey into the rainforest jungle, he will discover the truth about his dad.

Francesca Canepa

Peruvian filmmaker, she studied Cinema at the University from Montpellier and she holds a Master degree in Cinematography from the ESCAC, the Cinema School from Catalunya. She’s a director who strives to tell stories with a socially conscious message. Her first Short Film AYA, shot In the Peruvian Andes, obtained the prize of Best Iberoamerican Short Film at the Guadalajara’s International Film Festival (FICG) 2017 and gain international attention from the cinema critics. El Silencio del Río is her second short film shot in the Amazon river, released in 2019. She won a scholarship for an MBA in Cinema Direction from the school EFTI from Madrid, she’s currently pursuing while working on the script from her first feature film, BELEN.