Entre Luz
Directors: Adelaida Tamayo and Gabriel Barrios
United States, 2025, 18 min
Festival Year:2026
Category:Documentary Short
Genres:Street Theater, Human Rights, Social Impact, Latin American
Cast:Miguel Leal, Salome Sanchez, Sebastian Ramirez, Cristian Viteri, David Racedo
Crew:Producers: Adelaida Tamayo, Juan Pablo Fonseca, Daniel Jaimes. Original Score: Benjamin Salinas
Email:adelaida94@gmail.com
Synopsis
Entre Luz is a short documentary made with survivors of police shootings who lost their eyes during the 2021 Colombian national strike. The film follows a popular-theater troupe of survivors as they carry their performance into the streets of Cali, where testimonies join the clamor of community kitchens, mothers demanding justice, and youth who refuse to be silent. Through disorienting imagery, Entre Luz proposes a new way of seeing structures of oppression. Spectators witness and join the groups mobilization. Produced with MOCAO (Movement in Resistance Against Ocular Aggressions), the film channels the power of popular cinema to invite you to join the battle for justice.
About the directors
Adelaida Tamayo - Adelaida Tamayo is a PhD candidate in anthropology at Brown University, focused on testimonies of state violence in Colombia. Adelaida uses visual methods to understand stories of conflict and resistance. This has involved community mural painting projects, textile activism, collaborative filmmaking, ethnographic interviews, and participation in protests in solidarity with activist mothers, the Colombian national strike, the Movement for Black Lives in the US, and calls for a free Palestine. Before starting her PhD, Adelaida worked with Arte Sin Fronteras in Bogotá (FASF), Human Rights Watch, Her Justice and Planned Parenthood.
Gabriel Barrios - Gabriel Barrios is a Venezuelan-American actor, writer, filmmaker, and multimedia artist based in New York.