I Am Happiness on Earth

by Julián Hernández
Category
Director
Julián Hernández
Country / Year
Mexico, 2014
Genre
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Rights
Festivals, Sales
Length
124′, col.

SYNOPSIS

Emiliano looks at his life with the eyes of a film director, mixing the objective reality with the processes of the artistic creation. The story he is filming flounders with his daily life, until his world is trapped in the lens of his camera. Confused, always alone and in front of a screen, now become a transfigured reality, but at the same time a measurable, controllable and manipulable one, he listens in loop to a song: one of those songs you sing or repeat as a prayer and forcing you to remember, believe and convince yourself.

DIRECTOR

Julián Hernández is born in Mexico City in 1972 and he graduated in film from the state University UNAM. Among his previous works are the feature films Broken Sky (2006), A Thousand Clouds of Peace Fence the Sky, Love, Your Being Love Will Never End  (2003), winner of the Teddy Award at Berlin Film Festival and Raging Sun, Raging Sky, winner of the same Award but in 2009. His four last features, all represented by The Open Reel, are: I Am Happiness on Earth (2014), Tattoo of Revenge (2018), Asphalt Goddess (2019), The Trace of Your Lips (2023). Hernández has also directed  the short films Por encima del abismo de la desesperación (1996), Hubo un tiempo en que los sueños dieron paso a largas noches de insomnio (1997), Bramadero (2007), Vago rumor de mares en zozobra (2008), Atmósfera (2010), Wandering Clouds (2013), Young Man at the Bar Masturbating with Rage and Nerve (2015), Boys on the Rooftop (2016) and The Day Began Yesterday (2020). Two Amongst Many (2022) and Cobalto (2023) are his last short productions.

    • Title
      I Am Happiness on Earth
    • Rights
      Festivals, Sales
    • Country
      Mexico
    • Year
      2014
    • Length
      124′, col.
    • Director
      Julián Hernández
    • Screenplay
      Julián Hernández
    • Editing
      Emiliano Arenales Osorio
    • Photography
      Alejandro Cantú
    • Music
      Arturo Villela Vega
    • Sound
      Omar Juárez Espino, Armando Narváez del Valle
    • Cast
      Hugo Catalán, Alan Ramírez, Andrea Portal, Gabino Rodríguez, Emilio Von Sternenfels, Iván Álvarez, Rocío Reyes, Emmanuel Ávalos, Gerardo del Razo, Diana Lein, Javier Oliván, Giovanna  Zacarías, Juan Carlos Carrasco, Sergio Anselmo, Aladino Torreblanca, Gloria Contreras
    • Producer
      Roberto Fiesco
    • Production
      Mil Nubes Cine, CUEC – UNAM
    • Frameline San Francisco 2014
    • Turin Gay & Lesbian 2014 – Feature Film Competition
    • Tampa LGBT Film Festival 2014
    • Out On Film Atlanta LGBTQ Film Festival 2014
    • Gent International Film Festival 2014
    • Queer Lisboa 2014 – Feature Film Competition
    • Outfest Los Angeles 2014
    • Outfest Perú Lima 2014
    • NewFest New York 2014
    • Lesgaicinemad Madrid LGBT Film Festival 2014
    • Morelia International Film Festival 2014 – Mexican Feature Film Competition
    • Festival Chéries-Chèris Paris 2014 – Feature Film Competition
    • Bielefeld Cinema 2014
    • Madison US Cinema 2014
    • Pride Hull UK 2014
    • Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2014
    • Austin LGBT Film Festival 2014
    • Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2014
    • Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2015
    • Queer Screen Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival 2015
    • FICMY Merida and Yucatan International Film Festival 2015
    • FebioFest Prague 2015
    • Tels Quels LGBT Film Festival Brussels 2015
    • In & Out Festival Nice 2015
    • Mix Mexico Mexico City 2015
    • Ciclo Rosa Bogota 2015
    • Monterrey Queer Film Festival 2015
    • Filmar Latin American Film Festival Geneva 2015
    • Llamale H Montevideo LGBT Film Festival 2015
    • FICH Hermosillo Film Festival 2015
    • Inedito Cine Mexicano Contemporáneo São Paulo 2016
    • Playa del Carmen Queer Film Festival 2016
    • Mostra Cine Mexicano Contemporáneo Rio de Janeiro 2017
    • Cine Tonalàà Tijuana 2017
    • Cineteca Nacional Mexico City 2018
    • Cineteca Nacional Mexico City 2021 – Retrospective Julián Hernández
    • Llamale H Montevideo LGBT Film Festival 2015 – Best Feature Film
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