Atahualpa is working on the construction of a road that leads towards the Oriente region, crossing the Llanganates Mountain Range, where there is a rumour of a vast treasure hidden by the Inca prince Atahualpa before his death in 1533. One afternoon, after Rocío, his girlfriend, has left the city, Atahualpa feels a provocation, a distant whisper that takes him back a hundred years.
José María Avilés
Born in Ecuador in 1988, he studied Filmmaking at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, attended the Martín Rejtman and Andrés di Tella Film Lab, and holds a Master's degree in Creative Writing from the Elías Querejeta Cine Eskola in San Sebastián. He directed short films such as ‘Ricchieri’ (2013), ‘Conversaciones en el jardín’ (2014), and "Speed Paradise" (2015), before making his feature film debut in 2018 with ‘The Death of the Master’, which premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival. His work has been screened at other international competitions like San Sebastian, Bafici, São Paulo, Fribourg, and Venice, among others.
DIRECTOR
José María Avilés
SCREENPLAY
José María Avilés, Felipe Troya
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Pablo Paloma Marin
EDITOR
José María Avilés, Sebastián Schjaer
SOUND
Nicolás Fernández Pérez, Xanti Salvador
MUSIC
Manuel Schjaer, Valesuchi
PRODUCTION
Julieta Juncadella
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Angamarca, Una Presencia
CAST
Alejandro Espinosa, Paulet Arévalo, Oliver Utne, Santiago Villacís Pastor
