Capsules (Capsulas)

An Anver Films presentation in co-production with Toy & Butterfly Prods. Created by Veronica Riedel. Executive producers, Riedel, Edgar Hernandez, Simon Junker. Directed, compiled by Veronica Riedel.With: Carolina Cuervo, Giacomo Buonafina, Sebastian Gereda, Jose Penalonso, Jairon Salguero, Marylena Jerez, Sofia Arevalo, Atli Scoenbeck, Luis Sanchez, Samuel Osorio.Just a little wealthy boy in Guatemala City endures an very active day in Veronica Riedel's risible drama "Capsules." Among the couple of features to leave the small but growing Guatemala film community, pic tries to express a boy's secret longing to reunite together with his lengthy-lost father, along with the narrow distance between your country's haves and also have-nots, particularly when the haves are drug sellers. But crude staging, rickety pacing and telenovela-quality acting undermine the project, that will tour strictly Latino fests. Apparently more fortunate than a lot of his mates, schoolboy Fonsi (Sebastian Gereda) likes making paintball videos and hearing rap, but he's encircled by vipers. To his left is his mother's drug-dealing b.f. Simon (Jose Penalonso), who helps make the lad swallow capsules of heroin to smuggle in to the U.S., in which the household is headed. To his right is several bad youths brought by Nena (Sofia Arevalo, inside a ridiculous evil-bitch-from-hell perf). His lengthy-absent father, Giaco (Giacomo Buonafina), handles to obtain Fonsi from the criminals for many time.Digital camera (color, widescreen, HD), Roberto Correa editor, Domingo Lemus music, David P Gandarias production designer, Fernando Galvez costume designer, Sofia Lantan. Examined on DVD, La, August. 15, 2011. (In La Latino, New You are able to Latino film festivals.) Running time: 102 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com