The short film ‘The great work’ (‘The Masterpiece’), by Spanish director Àlex Lora (‘Unicorns’), has won the grand jury prize at the Sundance Festival, has announced the independent film competition that will be held the last two weeks of January near the capital of the state of Utah.
The short film, a tense drama of classism, racism and social prejudicestalks about the meeting between Leo (Daniel Grao) and Diana (Melina Matthews), a wealthy couple, with Salif and Yousef (Babou Cham and Adam Nourou), two scrap metal dealers, in a recycling center, Lora himself explains in his account. Instagram.
The family takes a broken television to a recycling point where they meet a father and son scrap metal dealers and invite them to their mansion to donate more items. There, the situation becomes complicated when the family discovers that the scrap metal dealers have something they want.
Àlex Lora has already won six Emmys and has been nominated for the Goya and the Gaudí. In this edition, the Sundance Festival has also distinguished the short films ‘Say Hi After You Die’, by Kate Jean Hollowell; ‘The Stag’, by An Chu; ‘Bug Diner’, by Phoebe Jane Hart, (animation); ‘Bob’s Funeral’ (non-fiction), by Jack Dunphy; ‘The Looming’, by Masha Ko; and ‘Pisko The Crab Child Is In Love’, by Makoto Nagahisa.
Source: Lasexta
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