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Wikipedia article




'Breach in the Silence' is a 2012 Venezuelan drama film directed by Luis Rodrguez and Andrs Rodrguez. The film was selected as the Venezuelan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

Plot



Ana (Di Quattro) is a deaf-and-dumb girl from an impoverished family. She works in a sewing factory with her mother, Julia (Cuervos), who is enamored with the drunk and abusive Antonio (Len) and ignores her three children. After the youngest, Manuel (Pimentel), witnesses Antonio rape Julia, Ana debates taking revenge on the man who has ruined her family.

'The Hollywood Reporter' writes that "unusually for a Venezuelan movie, there is little direct social comment, and only the most oblique criticism of the wider conditions that have made this family so desperately screwed-up".

Cast



* Vanessa Di Quattro

* Juliana Cuervos

* Rubn Len

* Carmily Artgas

* Jonathan Pimentel

Production



The film directors, twins Luis and Andrs Rodrguez, first worked in social work with children and then began making documentaries to show the conditions of many marginalized Venezuelans. After Villa del Cine announced funding for low-budget fiction films in 2011, the brothers applied and were able to tell a similar story as a drama with 'Breach in the Silence'.

The research and writing of the film is said to have taken six months and involved the Venezuelan Association of the Deaf. The film was in pre-production for two months, and filming only took six weeks.

Awards



See also



* List of submissions to the 86th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

* List of Venezuelan submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References




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