DEJAR A MARCOS

Leaving Marcos

España. 2008. Color. 20 min. Ficción. 35mm.
  • Film Director: Mario Fernández Alonso.
  • Producer: Ismael García López.
Marcos is a seven year old child that wants to call his mother's attention with his own pain. His mother is lost on drugs, and not aware of her child's problems. On a trip to the forest they will find out the truth about each other. A truth that will remain for eternity.

Mario Fernández Alonso
Mario was born in Cartagena in 1972. Graduated in Clinical Psychology by the University of Valencia in 1998, he specialized in the treatment of severe mentally ill persons. In 2004 he started working as an air traffic controller and also starts his cinematographic career. His short movies, 'Dejar a Marcos', 'La Manada' and 'Niger' have been selected by important film festivals like Gijón, Versión Española, Huesca, Cinema Jove, Skopje, Israel, México, Sao Pablo, Odense, Uppsala, Warsaw or Geneva, where they've won several important awards. He's currently preparing his first feature film about the Spanish civil war.