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Screenplay: Jorge Navas and Sebastián Hernández Genre: Documentary, thriller Cast: Rosario Caicedo, Luis Ospina, Sandro Romero, Eduardo Carvajal, Pilar Caicedo, Patricia Restrepo. The 1970s. In the midst of the Latin American literature and magical realism boom, while every writer sought to migrate to Barcelona or Paris to land a powerful publishing house, Andrés Caicedo, writing from provincial Colombia, penned film scripts adapting stories by H.P. Lovecraft, the master of horror, to sell in Hollywood to Roger Corman, the famed producer of B movies. His obsessions with Gothic literature, fate, and violence converged in his life and work to shape a singular aesthetic universe and lay the groundwork for a concept that would later be called “Tropical Gothic” Andrés Caicedo took his own life at the age of 25, the day he received the first copy of his novel, Liveforever. Screenplays, unfinished novels, plays, short stories, film criticism, and correspondence seemed destined to remain locked away forever in his trunk. Today he is one of Colombia's most important and forceful writers.

Director: Jorge Navas Writers: Jorge Navas and Sebastián Hernández Country: Colombia Year: 2020 Runtime: 80 min Genre: Documentary, thriller Cast: Rosario Caicedo, Luis Ospina, Sandro Romero, Eduardo Carvajal, Pilar Caicedo, Patricia Restrepo Synopsis: The seventies. In the midst of the Latin American and the magical realism boom, while all writers were seeking to migrate to Barcelona or Paris, all of them eager to find a powerful publishing house, Andrés Caicedo living in a provincial town in Colombia was writing film scripts adapting stories of that master of horror, H.P Lovecraft. With these he had the plan to go to Hollywood and sell them to Roger Corman, a famous producer of B movies. His obsessions with Gothic literature, with fate and violence were the center of his life and his work, and contributed to shape a particular aesthetic universe which helped create what came to be called “Tropical Gothic”. Andrés Caicedo committed suicide at the age of 25, the very same day when he received the first copy of the second novel published while he was alive, Liveforever. Scripts, unfinished novels, plays, short stories, film criticism, and a great deal of correspondence were kept in his trunk. Today he is one of Colombia’s most relevant and forceful writers.