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Status: Complete.  Screening at the Tulipanes Latino Film Festival in early September.  Official Selection at the San Diego Latin American Film Festival and the Sin Fronteras Film Festival.  More screening details and DVD’s for sale coming soon!

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Trailer: Watch it here.

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Length: 25 minutes

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Synopsis: Miguel Correos is a high school math teacher in his hometown of Latacunga, Ecuador, and his daily life is dictated by his need for control and order. This lifestyle and outlook stand in stark contrast to those of Adán, his best childhood friend. Pursuing adventure and the promise of America, Adán moved to New York City ten years ago and ended up teaching Spanish in a public school.

While eating dinner one night, Miguel sees on TV that there has been a shooting in the school where Adán works. Many people are dead, many more are wounded, and no one can tell Adán’s parents whether or not their son is alive. Desperate, they ask Miguel to go to New York to find him.

The journey he undertakes forces him into an environment of complete uncertainty and eventually becomes as much a search for understanding and a new sense of self as it is a search for Adán. While navigating a strange city and culture, Miguel struggles to find order and reason in the face of chance and to find humanity amidst the incomprehensible tragedy of school violence.

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Project Outline: Adán was Gabriel’s senior thesis film and was shot over 10 days in New York City.