Shorts

Biblioburro

Directed, produced and edited by Valentina Canavesio

Premiered at Newport Beach Film Festival and aired on PBS. 

Biblioburro: The Donkey library, follows Luis Soriano, a teacher in the small town of La Gloria, Colombia, who has spent the past ten years bringing books to children of the rural communities on the back of his donkeys.

This short film inspired a children's book that has now been translated into five languages. 

Les Vulnérables

Written and directed by Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, produced by Valentina Canavesio

Premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival and was the closing night short at the New York Film Festival

A coming of age story about a schoolboy who tries to prove his manhood to his wheelchair-bound father by helping him smuggle goods over the border between Congo and Rwanda.