In its Weekend Box Office, Casa América screens, from today until June 17 at 7:30 PM, exclusively the film El ladrón de perros (The Dog Thief), written and directed by Chilean filmmaker Vinko Tomičić and starring Alfredo Castro.
The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival (New York) and has won the Platino Award for Best First Feature, the Biznaga de Oro at the Málaga Festival, the Coral Award for Best Screenplay at the Havana Festival, and the Special Jury Prize at the festivals in Mar del Plata and Lima.
Vinko Tomičić (Chile, 1987) is a Chilean screenwriter, director, and producer trained at the University of Buenos Aires. In 2014, he founded the production company Calamar Cine, with which he produced and co-directed with Francisco Hevia his first feature film, The Fumigator (2016). He has directed several short films. The Dog Thief is his first solo feature film.
The film tells the story of Martín, a young orphan who works as a shoeshiner on the streets of La Paz, Bolivia, who decides to steal the dog of his best client, a lonely tailor whom he has begun to imagine as his father.