Platanero
Ti-Frè and Gran-Frè, two brothers of Haitian origin living in a shantytown in the Dominican Republic, struggle every day to survive. On a full moon night, desperation pushes them to steal from a plantation, where a mysterious beast prowls in the shadows of the banana trees.
- Canada
- 2025, 25 min
- Director: Juan Frank Hernandez
- Director of photography: Benoît Jones-Vallée
- Editor: Marianne Langston
- Screenplay: Juan Frank Hernandez, Vincent Labelle
- Music: Maxime Fortin
- Sound: Francis Gauthier (Sound Design), Isabelle Lussier (Sound Mix), Pablo Villegas (Sound Record)
- Cast: Stanley Exantus, Irdens Exantus, Jonathan Saint-Armand, Ramón Emilio Candelario, José María Cabral
- Art Director: Blood Brothers Fx, Marie-Florence Gagnon
- Producer: Laurence Ly, Béatrice Moukhaiber
- Production: Les Films Camera Oscura
Juan Frank Hernandez
Juan Frank Hernandez is a self-taught writer-director from Quebec and the Dominican Republic. He tells stories that mix genres and feature characters who must face imaginary, comic, internal or societal fears. He recently completed his most personal short film, Platanero, in his hometown in the Dominican Republic.