Erick Ekvall

Venezuela, the mid-nineteenth century. The polarization between liberals and conservatives marked the political agenda. Inequalities of colonial society kept farmers and slaves under the yoke of the oligarchy. Ezequiel Zamora mobilized by deep ideals of liberty is leading a fight to try to erase social inequalities and distribute land equitably.

Tosca, the true story is a Venezuelan film released in 2001, based on the homonymous opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini.

An homage to the painter Armando Reveron, this is the story of a contemporary painter who chooses to live in isolation in a hut alongside the Caribbean Sea. Along with Claudia, his muse, he works using nature as his source of inspiration. Alfredo, a friend and art connoisseur, forces the painter to create a series of paintings for an exhibition in New York that aims at achieving fame and putting him on the contemporary art market. The film presents a tropical perspective of the dilemma between artist and the commercializing of his work.

Two technicians foreign oil, along with the daughter of one of them, coming into the country to verify that there is a large oil field in the jungle area. They go in the area and must struggle against nature, isolation, loneliness and violence. The result, they will become victims in a new era of destruction and ambition.

About a mysterious and troubled black woman, a former practitioner of the Santería religion, who must comes to terms with her background whilst in a Caracas jail.