Ecuador/Germany
LIGHT MEMORIES
80 MIN
2024
Photography, fractured memories, and family secrets converge in a visually poignant exploration that delves into the effects of absent father figures throughout a family tree.
Cast & Crew
Producers: Mayfe Ortega Haboud, Isabela Parra, Darío Aguirre
Director: Misha Vallejo Prut
Script: Andrés Cornejo Pinto, Mayfe Ortega Haboud, Misha Vallejo Prut
Directors of Photography: Misha Vallejo Prut, Isadora Romero Paz y Miño
Music: Christian Mejía Rodríguez
Sound: Emile Plonski
Editing: Andrés Cornejo Pinto
Cast: Luz Vallejo Vallejo, Jorge Vallejo, Inna Prut
Production. Caleidoscopio Cine, Tiempo Filmproduktion
Awards
SIGNIS Award for Feature-Length Documentary, Audience Award, Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse, 2024; Jury Prize, Pordenone Docs Fest, Italy, 2024
Cast & Crew
Producers: Mayfe Ortega Haboud, Isabela Parra, Darío Aguirre
Director: Misha Vallejo Prut
Script: Andrés Cornejo Pinto, Mayfe Ortega Haboud, Misha Vallejo Prut
Directors of Photography: Misha Vallejo Prut, Isadora Romero Paz y Miño
Music: Christian Mejía Rodríguez
Sound: Emile Plonski
Editing: Andrés Cornejo Pinto
Cast: Luz Vallejo Vallejo, Jorge Vallejo, Inna Prut
Production. Caleidoscopio Cine, Tiempo Filmproduktion
Awards
SIGNIS Award for Feature-Length Documentary, Audience Award, Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse, 2024; Jury Prize, Pordenone Docs Fest, Italy, 2024
Misha Vallejo Prut
Misha Vallejo Prut is an audiovisual artist and storyteller whose work blurs the line between documentary and art. His projects explore global issues—themes that appear local but reveal global dimensions through his lens. With an MA in Documentary Photography from the University of the Arts London, Misha is the author of the acclaimed photobooks Al otro lado (2016), Siete punto Ocho (2018), and Secreto Sarayaku (2020), each recognized with international awards. His interactive documentary, secretsarayaku.net, has drawn over 20,000 visitors since its release in 2020.
Misha’s photography has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, VICE, GEO, Stern, and Marie Claire, among others. His exhibitions have traveled globally, with recent showings at the Biennial for Contemporary Photography (Germany, 2022), PHOTO 2022 Festival (Australia, 2022), Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles (France, 2018), and the First Latin American Foto Festival at the Bronx Documentary Center in New York (2018). Among other honors, he has received the Dom Phillips Grant from the Pulitzer Center (2023), the IDFA Bertha Fund (2020), the Goethe-Institute and Prince Claus Fund Grant (2018), the Photo Europe Network Prize (2018), and the National Arts Prize Mariano Aguilera (2015).
Filmography
Light Memories (doc., 2024).
Misha Vallejo Prut is an audiovisual artist and storyteller whose work blurs the line between documentary and art. His projects explore global issues—themes that appear local but reveal global dimensions through his lens. With an MA in Documentary Photography from the University of the Arts London, Misha is the author of the acclaimed photobooks Al otro lado (2016), Siete punto Ocho (2018), and Secreto Sarayaku (2020), each recognized with international awards. His interactive documentary, secretsarayaku.net, has drawn over 20,000 visitors since its release in 2020.
Misha’s photography has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, VICE, GEO, Stern, and Marie Claire, among others. His exhibitions have traveled globally, with recent showings at the Biennial for Contemporary Photography (Germany, 2022), PHOTO 2022 Festival (Australia, 2022), Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles (France, 2018), and the First Latin American Foto Festival at the Bronx Documentary Center in New York (2018). Among other honors, he has received the Dom Phillips Grant from the Pulitzer Center (2023), the IDFA Bertha Fund (2020), the Goethe-Institute and Prince Claus Fund Grant (2018), the Photo Europe Network Prize (2018), and the National Arts Prize Mariano Aguilera (2015).
Filmography
Light Memories (doc., 2024).
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