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The Night Wachman

El Velador

Director

Natalia Almeda

Producer

Natalia Almeda

Cinematographer

Natalia Almeda

Editors

Julien Devaux

Natalia Almada

Sound

Alejandro de Icaza

Contact

Daniela Elstner
Doc & Film International
+33(0)1 42 77 56 87
[email protected]

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2011

Mexico, United States

72 min

Color

From dusk to dawn El Velador accompanies Martin, the guardian angel whom, night after night, watches over the extravagant mausoleums of some of Mexico’s most notorious Drug Lords. In the labyrinth of the cemetery, this film about violence without violence reminds us how, in the turmoil of Mexico’s bloodiest conflict since the Revolution, ordinary life persists and quietly defies the dead.

Director

Almada is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2010 USA Artist Fellow and a recipient of the Alpert Award. She graduated with a Masters in Fine Arts in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and currently lives in Mexico City.

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