WE ARE THE HEAT

SOMOS CALENTURA

By Jorge NAVAS

KINOLOGISTIKA - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, RUSSIA, CIS, Baltics / BUYER REP

Drama - Completed 2018

In Buenaventura, Colombia, Harvey and his three friends are seemingly doomed to a life of poverty and uncertainty. While attempting to find a way out of their harsh reality, an urban dance competition may be their chance to overcome and defy their rough destiny.

Festivals
& Awards

Warsaw International Film Festival 2018
Premios Mondos 2019
Winner, Best Original Song, Best Visual Effects
Hip Hop Film Festival 2019
Choreoscope International Dance Film Festival 2019
Toronto Black Film Festival 2019
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2019
Wassermusik Festival 2019
Panorama Colombia 2019
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Drama, Action/Adventure
    • Countries
    • COLOMBIA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH-COLOMBIAN
    • Duration
    • 104 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jorge NAVAS
    • Writer(s)
    • Diego VIVANCO, Steven GRISALES
    • Producer(s)
    • Steven GRISALES
    • Synopsis
    • Colombia’s largest port, Buenaventura, is paradoxically one of the country’s poorest cities and a kingdom of violence, corruption, and neglect, where youth are doomed to a life of poverty and uncertainty. In the midst of this harsh reality, Harvey and his three friends have lost touch with their passion and true power. Former local urban dance champions, they now concentrate on merely surviving time and again, attempting to escape their hard reality. This all changes when they hear that the national Urban Dance Championship is to take place in their town. Defying violence and despair, they rise again in warrior style, rediscovering their alter egos and self-worth in the sounds of the Pacific and Latin hip hop beats. As the championship progresses, their daily existence will prove to be their biggest obstacle and they’ll have to choose between violence or dance, between bullets or rhymes.