Ramona
Camila Santana
Ramona by Victoria Linares Villegas
DOM 2023, Generation
© Jaime Guerra
Estrellita Ynoa, Yarisel Ynoa, Maite Ynoa, Camila Santana
Ramona by Victoria Linares Villegas
DOM 2023, Generation
© Jaime Guerra
Ashley Lara, Yereini Santana, Rocío Pineda, Camila Santana, Estrellita Ynoa
Ramona by Victoria Linares Villegas
DOM 2023, Generation
© Jaime Guerra
Feeling unprepared for her upcoming role as a 15-year-old pregnant girl from the outskirts of Santo Domingo, an actor from a more affluent background, Camila, decides to sit down with pregnant young girls for inspiration. Yet in the process, as the sorority of 15 teens candidly recount their realities on-camera, little by little they unexpectedly influence the film’s production, taking it into unchartered territory. Initially presenting itself as a behind-the-scenes making-of, Ramona quickly becomes a hazy postmodernist mix of telenovela pastiche, observational documentary, filmed rehearsals, cinéma vérité and theatre that constantly plays with the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, reality and artifice.
With
- Camila Santana
- Estrellita Ynoa
- Yarisel Ynoa
- Maite Ynoa
- Rocío Pineda
- Martina Gómez
- Ashley Lara
- Donaida Favian
- Dariana Marte
- Yikaurys Modesta
- Yanibel Alcántara
- Francia Reyes
- Nicol Polanco
- Yereini Santana
- Sherlyn Mota
- Lesly Aybar
- Anderson Mojica
Crew
| Director | Victoria Linares Villegas |
| Screenplay | Victoria Linares Villegas, Diego Cepeda |
| Cinematography | Jaime Guerra |
| Editing | Melisa Miranda Ulloa |
| Music | Oscar Chabebe |
| Sound | Homer Mora |
| Production Design | Shaina Cohen |
| Costumes | Carolin Williams |
| Make-Up | Nancy Rodríguez |
| Casting | Gerald Vásquez |
| Assistant Director | Jeissy Trompiz |
| Production Manager | Carlos Germán |
| Producers | Jordi Gassó, Rafael Llaneza, Pedro García |
| Executive Producer | Rafael Elías Muñoz |
Produced by
Lantica Media
Victoria Linares Villegas
The Dominican director made her feature-length film debut with the documentary Lo que se hereda which screened at various film festivals including the True/False Film Fest, BFI Flare and the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, and won her the Youth Jury Award for Best New Director at the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival. The film also won the Best Documentary Film Runner-Up prize at the Outshine Film Festival.
Filmography
2018 Cállate niña (Stay Quiet); short film 2019 Mi madre me tiene rabia (My Mother Resents Me); short film 2022 Lo que se hereda (It Runs in the Family); documentary 2023 Ramona
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2023