High Noon

High Noon (2013)

La hora señalada

In a school playground Figueroa, a small and lonely child, is accidentally pushed against the biggest boy of his class: Almendros. The boys around them decide they should fight, so it's decreed the two of them must face each other, outside the school, when the noon bell rings. The ticking clock will become Figueroa's worst enemy, while he has to face his fears and insecurities in order to confront his enemy just outside the school at high noon.

Date of release
2013-03-01
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
14m
Director
Ivan Mazza

Interesting facts

High Noon is a 2013 Venezuelan drama short film about bullying, directed by Ivan Mazza.

Production

High Noon is an independently financed short film, produced by Mike Medina and coproduced by CNAC. The second short film from its director, after the award-winning short film Yours from 2010. High Noon was filmed during five days in various locations over the city of Caracas, in April 2012. The project was awarded funding by Venezuela's CNAC in 2011.

The film was screened in half of the commercial venues in Venezuela during January and February 2015 as part of the Venezuela en corto initiative to promote award-winning Venezuelan short films to general audiences.

The plot is inspired in the director's recollections from a similar situation he lived in his childhood. He also treated the story as an homage to the Western as a film genre

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