During the 2021 edition of the Fenacies film festival awards, the short film project Escalando Uruguay (Climbing Uruguay) that started as a student project to document the growth of the climbing community in Uruguay thanks to the migration won as the best short film in the documentary category of the Montevideo’s festival.
What is it like to climb in Uruguay? In a country without big mountains, a group of climbers manage to make the climbing culture grow anyway. One of the founders of Montevideo Boulder Club, Pablo Velozo, and Freddy Espinoza are two Venezuelan climbers based in the Rio de la Plata country who are trying their hand at the project “El gran capuchino” (8a).
Directed and produced by
SEBASTIAN ASTORGA
Cameras
SEBASTIÁN ASTORGA
ALESSIO BERETTA
Cast
PABLO VELOZO
FREDDY ESPINOZA
OSVALDO KORN
Support from
Es Pa’rriba Magazine
Radiomundo
Montevideo Boulder Club
Music
Artist: Whitesand (Martynas Lau)
Artist: Hooksounds
Title: Apocalypse
© 2019 Sebastián Astorga – https://www.sebastorga.com – @sebastorg