The 2018 Raindance Film Festival trailer is created with support from the Independent Film Trust, directed by Hector M. Valdez director of the Film of the Festival 2017, Peaches.
“As I toyed with many different concepts for the trailer, the one recurring element that always stuck was the festival’s motto of “discover, be discovered.” I wanted to make a film that, while serving as an entryway to a rarely seen version of life in the Caribbean, could also relay this phrase quite literally. The overall vision is that many great ideas can come from even the farthest corners of the world and, in the process, the unlikeliest of heroes step forth. With this in mind, the concept of a gang of young misfit scavengers led by a strong-willed girl finding an old movie projector was born. Representation matters now, more so than ever, and I believe that this has always been true to the festival’s mission statement.”
Hector Valdez
About the Director
Hector M. Valdez (1989) began making short films with his cousins and closest friends at the age of 8 in his hometown of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, using his father’s old camcorder. He went on to study World Cinemas and Entrepreneurship at McGill University in Montreal, QC while interning at advertising and production companies in his home country during the summer and shooting several shorts in the process. Upon graduating in 2012, Hector returned to the Dominican Republic with the goal of making his first feature-length film, Al Sur de la Inocencia, which was a Yellow Robin nominee at the Curaçao-International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2014. Since then, Hector has gone on to work as executive producer on several features and documentaries and is one of the co-founders of Bou Group, a leading production company based in the Dominican Republic. As a director, he recently completed his second feature, Peaches, which won Film of the Festival at the 2017 Raindance Film Festival and is still making rounds in the festivals circuit.
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