On the Move
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2020
Logline
ON THE MOVE follows three visual artists in exile from Syria, Sudan and Nicaragua as they strive to remain emotionally connected to their turbulent home countries. As the film progresses, a kaleidoscopic view of displacement emerges, drawing similarities and contrasts in the emotional burdens of these artists through the eyes of the movement itself.
Milton Guillén
Director, Producer
Milton is an award-winning Nicaraguan filmmaker who dwells in the realm of docufiction. His most recent works gravitate around the cinematic intersections of de-colonial ethnographic research and the affective image. Milton's films have screened globally at CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, DOK Leipzig, Camden, and more. In 2018, his debut feature THE MARIBOR UPRISINGS, co-directed with Maple Raza, received the Society for Visual Anthropology's Best Feature Award. He is a recipient of several international artist residencies and grants including the ITVS Diversity Development Fund for his project ON THE MOVE. Milton was named a fellow at the Points North Institute, the Bay Area Video Coalition and Kartemquin Diverse Voices in Documentary.
Natalia Hernández
Co-producer
Natalia Hernández is a Nicaraguan producer based in Berlin with over ten years of experience. She graduated with an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. Most recently she was the Co-Producer of the feature documentary film HEIRESS OF THE WIND with director Gloria Carrión Fonseca, which premiered at IDFA in 2017. She also Co-Produced DAYS OF LIGHT which premiered at 2019 AFI. DAYS OF LIGHT is an omnibus film that tells six stories from Central America, and first ever co-production of this kind in the region. ON THE MOVE is her next feature film, along with literary projects of her own.
Noelia Espinoza
Screenwriter
Noelia is a Nicaraguan filmmaker trained at Cuba’s EICTV and the University of Montreal. Noelia combines her background in screenwriting and philosophy to approach highly complicated subjects with an incisive and humanistic approach. Her latest project, THE ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS, won Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival 2018, Prix Buyens-Chagoll in Vision du Reel 2018, Valletta Film Festival 2018, and Best Sound in a Documentary at AACTA. Her screenplay STATIC MIRACLE won at the Co-Production Market at Guadalajara Film Festival 2015, BRLab 7 and Cinergia Lab 2014.
Nicolas Abaunza
Cinematographer
Nicolas Abaunza is a Nicaraguan-French cinematographer based in Montréal. Trained at the ESEC in Paris, Nicolas has become one of Nicaragua’s most sought-after cinematographers and has worked on several international productions for commercials and documentaries in Kenya, Latin America and the US. In the past 5 years, Nicolas and filmmaker Milton Guillen have collaborated in dozens of projects, from fiction to documentaries, and developed a cinematic voice together.