Levantada

Two women have had a romantic relationship with the same man for years, but when he dies he will leave them in the care of his business: a bakery.

Paolo, a young gay Peruvian immigrant who lives in New York, travels back to his native country. After eight years of absence, he now feels ready to face a society that might not accept him, and search for the father who left his family when he was only seven years old.

Documentary by Andrea Franco.

Shot along the California coastline, Notes I observes, ponders and listens. The permutable and drawing ocean submerges and provides a boundless space.

A sci-fi filmed in Mount Shasta, CA, Morro Bay, CA and Cape Romain, SC.

The film explores the life and work of the filmmaker's late grandfather, himself a pioneering Peruvian filmmaker of the 1970s. She captures his life through conversations with her grandmother, her mother and their domestic workers, interwoven with footage from his film archive.

Andrea Franco's Tell me about Bia, a documentary dedicated to the life and work of her late grandfather, Bernardo Batievsky, recognizes the Peruvian filmmaker in the 1970s. Batievsky is known for the films Mirage, and Cholo, starring the popular footballer Hugo “Cholo” Sotil. Through conversations with her grandmother, her mother and domestic workers, the filmmaker explores the life and work of his grandfather, also trying to rescue the few remaining copies of the films produced by him, due to the poor conservation of the cinematography of the country. Tell me about Bia presents these intimate moments where the life of the deceased filmmaker is been discovered, interrupted by scenes from movies and home videos of Batievsky.