• Instructions to Let Go

    Directed by Gustavo Gamero
    Mexico | 8 minutes |

Daphne and Mafer meet at a hotel, they quickly become friends and chemistry begins to emerge between them.

In competition for Best LGBT+ Short

film synopsis

film details

Director: Gustavo Gamero
Producers: Gustavo Gamero
Screenwriter: Gustavo Gamero
Cinematographers: Sebastián Valdivieso, Gustavo Gamero
Editor: Gustavo Gamero
Music: Isaac Ramírez
Cast: Leonel Dmitri Handal, Mafer Marquez
Original Language Title: Instrucciones para soltar
Country: Mexico
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles.
Year: 2019
Running Time: 8 minutes
Contact Email: gus.gamero94@gmail.com
Website: https://www.gustavogamero.com/

director biography

Gustavo Gamero (Mexico City, 1994) is a filmmaker based at Monterrey, Mexico. He studied a bachelor in Communications and Digital Media at Tecnológico de Monterrey. He has participated in an academic internship in the Filmmaking program of Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. Some of the projects he has written and directed are: Turno 66 (2015, Jury Mention in the Student Showcase - Monterrey Film Festival), Fraterno (2018, financed by Nuevo León State Comission for Arts and Culture), Antes de entrar permita salir (2018, Best Mexican Short Film Award - Festival MIX: Cine y Diversidad Sexual and Kinostart Award - FIC Monterrey), Instrucciones para soltar (2019, official selection in Oaxaca Film Fest, Cúorum Morelia and International Film Festival Rotterdam), Un encuentro inesperado (2019, Documentary Short Film Special Award from the Festival Mundial de Cine de Veracruz), Tierra (2020, winner of the 19th National Short Film Contest/By regions 2019 of the Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía), among others. 

2020 ShortFest Archive