A Colombian teenage girl in Los Angeles unravels when deportation threatens her world. Consumed by fear, she clings to memories of childhood and fleeting love, searching for inner strength to face a world that seeks to erase her.
A Colombian teenage girl in Los Angeles begins to unravel as the threat of deportation creeps into her world. Though raised to believe herself strong, a quiet unease grows inside her, as fear pulls her away from everything that once felt safe. As she struggles to piece together memories that bleed into the present, fragments of childhood, and fleeting love, she confronts the rhythm of the waves and the tide inside her in a world that threatens to erase her.
Lorena Villanueva is a Colombian director and producer based in Los Angeles with over a decade of industry experience as an Assistant Director for TV shows and feature films. She completed her Master’s in Film Direction at Bande à Part Film School in Barcelona and she directed her first short, Fuoco Fatuo in Southern Italy. Back in Colombia she directed two more short films Inés (ColFilmNY ‘21) and Bed Smash (Festival SantaFe de Antioquia Best Short Film ‘24, FICNOR ‘24, Cinema Palooza ‘24). She is currently in post production of The Tide Inside, short film she directed and produced about a teenage love story unfolding amidst the psychological pressures of the deportation crisis in Los Angeles. She is also developing her feature directorial debut, Gaira, a love story in midst of the difficult search for forgiveness in the wake of Colombia’s decades-long internal conflict. She is the producer of the Teorema, feature film in development selected for the NALIP Accelerator ‘25, and is a member of the Colombian Academy of Motion Pictures.
Actress - Laura Sofía Domínguez
Actor - Jacob Rodriguez
Production Designer - Sara Millán
Cinematographer - Alexandre Genevieve Agar
Editor - Ariana Topke
