Bajo La Tierra

Director: Pablo Guillen

Producers: Mon Castro, & Daniel Radzinsky

World Premiere

Country of Production: United States

Date of Completion: 2023

Duration of Film: 17 Minutes

Alta California, 1845. Alma is a young Mexican woman living in an isolated ranch with her mother Josefa. A skilled pottery maker looking to escape poverty, Alma’s work has become her only priority in life. After learning that Josefa tragically passed away while she was too busy
working, Alma becomes sick with the guilt of her loss. She takes on an obsessive amount of work to drown out the guilt, which leads to a serious injury. Suddenly, Alma’s world is flipped upside down when a series of supernatural disturbances begin to test her sanity. No matter how many pots she makes, she always wakes to find her pieces ruined. It almost seems as if the earth is swallowing her entire home- including her. Even stranger, she begins to hear the voice of her mother around the empty home. Will Alma manage to get a hold of her life or lose herself trying?