Between You and Milagros
At fifteen, Milagros’s world still revolves around her mother’s affection. This summer, an unexpected encounter with death will make her question their relationship and her own existence.
- Colombia, USA
- 2020, 20 min
- Director: Mariana Saffon Ramírez
- Director of photography: Alfonso Herrera Salcedo
- Editor: Andrew Stephen Lee
- Screenplay: Mariana Saffon, Nathalie Álvarez
- Music: James Kinney
- Cast: Sofía Paz, Marcela Mar
- Art Director: Diego García
- Producer: Diana Cristina Patiño
Mariana Saffon Ramírez
Mariana Saffon is a Colombian writer/director based in NY. Her latest short film, Between You and Milagros (2020), won the Orizzonti Short Film award at the 77th Venice International Film Festival in 2020, the Best Short Film Award at the 28th Hamptons Film Festival and the DGA Jury Award for Best Latino Director for the East Coast among many others. She is a Columbia University MFA Graduate, recipient of the Milos Forman Directing Fellowship and she is currently writing her first feature, La Botero, which will be shot in Medellín, Colombia.