Lake Tahoe

In an attempt to escape from a home where sorrow reigns, Juan, a 16-year-old boy, crashes his family’s car into a telegraph pole on the outskirts of town. As Juan scours the streets searching for someone to help him fix the car, he meets Don Heber, an old paranoid mechanic whose only companion is Sica, his boxer dog. Don Heber promises to fix the car as soon as Juan can find the part he needs for his crashed vehicle. Searching for that piece, Juan arrives at “Refaccionaria Oriente”, an autoparts store attended by Lucia. While she knows about punk music, Lucia doesn’t have a clue about mechanics and so they must wait for David, a teenage mechanic obsessed with martial arts. The absurd worlds of these characters drag Juan into a one-day journey in which he will come to accept an event as natural and inexplicable as death.
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Script: Fernando Eimbcke, Paula Markovitch
Cinematography: Alexis Zabe
Editing: Mariana Rodriguez
Sound: Lena Esquenazi
Actors: Diego Catano (Juan), Hector Herrera (Don Heber), Daniela Valentine (Lucia), Juan Carlos Lara (David), Yemil Sefami (Joaquin)
Production: Cinepantera
Producers: Christian Valdelievre
Art Direction: Diana Quiroz
Costumes: Mariana Watson
Format: 35mm Color
Production Country: Mexico
Production Year: 2008
Duration: 81
Distribution in Greece: Seven Films, Ioannis DrepasT.-F. +30 210 3818777drepas@sevenfims.gr www.sevenfilms.gr
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Fernando Eimbcke

He was born in Mexico City in 1970 and studied Drama and Film at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematograficos of the National University, Mexico. He made numerous short films and music videos. He participated in the Berlinale’s short film program in 2002 and he was a guest of the 2003 Berlinale Talent Campus, for which he made the short film "The Look of Love". His first feature, "Duck Season", was selected among others in the Critics’ Week in Cannes 2004.

Filmography

(Selected)
1993 Alcanzar una estrella/Reaching a Star (short doc.)
1994 ?Perdon?/Excuse Me? (short)
2003 Don’t Be Bad/No sea malita (short)
2003 The Look of Love (short)
2004 Temporada de patos/Duck Season
2005 Perro que ladra/ Dog that Barks (short)
2008 Lake Tahoe