The Winged Man
Posted in 2009, Magic Realism, Short Films, USA
Writer: José Rivera; Director: Marya Mazor; Producers: Camillia Sanes, Stephanie Bell.
In this work of Magical Realism, the only thing we know for certain is that Daysi, a Latina high school girl, is pregnant. Is the conception the son of a mystical winged man, as Daysi insists? Or the result of a one-night stand, as the girl’s mother claims? This visually arresting and poetic rumination on truth, written by Academy-award nominee José Rivera, asks what it means to hold fast to a belief, and what it takes to let it go.
14 min