2026 | B/N | 73:40 The Oil in My Blood, written as a fable to my daughter Mar, reimagines an oil platform as a sea monster confronting a mermaid. It reflects on promises of progress, Pemex’s exploitation, and Tabasco’s poisoned waters, where families endure precarious labor. Through memory and metaphor, it reveals how sacrifice sustains livelihoods while endangering land, sea, and future generations, exposing survival’s fragile balance. Country: México Direction: Quevedo; Vania Carolina Script: Quevedo Priego; Vania Carolina Production: Lara; Omar, Villavicencio; Paulina, Quevedo; Vania Photography: Jiménez; Antolín Sound: Rivero; Karina Music: Ramírez Pupo; Rafael Cast:Quevedo Martínez; Luis Alberto, Rodríguez Quevedo; Mar Purificación, Priego Alfaro; Guadalupe Victoria, Quevedo Priego; Viana Victoria, Quevedop; Luis, Cambrano López; Abigail Participation year at FICM: 2026
2026 | B/N | 73:40 The Oil in My Blood, written as a fable to my daughter Mar, reimagines an oil platform as a sea monster confronting a mermaid. It reflects on promises of progress, Pemex’s exploitation, and Tabasco’s poisoned waters, where families endure precarious labor. Through memory and metaphor, it reveals how sacrifice sustains livelihoods while endangering land, sea, and future generations, exposing survival’s fragile balance. Country: México Direction: Quevedo; Vania Carolina Script: Quevedo Priego; Vania Carolina Production: Lara; Omar, Villavicencio; Paulina, Quevedo; Vania Photography: Jiménez; Antolín Sound: Rivero; Karina Music: Ramírez Pupo; Rafael Cast:Quevedo Martínez; Luis Alberto, Rodríguez Quevedo; Mar Purificación, Priego Alfaro; Guadalupe Victoria, Quevedo Priego; Viana Victoria, Quevedop; Luis, Cambrano López; Abigail Participation year at FICM: 2026
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