Burned

Burned

Jaime Valdueza
Jason lives hidden in the room of a hotel with fear of coming out. He can only trusts his girlfriend Lila. Lila takes him to a friend's house in the desert, where an unexpected guest makes him too many questions. Jason´s confidence in Lila begins to disappear.
Director Jaime Valdueza (Madrid, Spain) is a director and editor living in the United States for over 16 years. His documentary Harlistas: An American Odyssey, sponsored by the Harley-Davidson Company, is about four families obsessed with their Harley-Davidson bikes that has been shown on several US television channels and digital channels worldwide. The feature film entitled Aqui entre nos directed by Patricia Martínez de Velasco, was presented at the official competition of the Huelva film festival, and won the award for best opera prima at the Montreal festival and the best actor at the festival of Guadalajara, Mexico. The film was subsequently acquired for distribution in the United States and the rest of the American continent. Jaime opened his company Module Zero Media in Venice, California in 2002, where he post-produced and edited more than two hundred ads for agencies such as J. Walter Thompson and Campbell-Ewald. During that time, he worked with such directors as Jaume Collet-Serra, Lance Kelleher and talents like Brad Pitt and Salma Hayek. During those years, the ads made at Module Zero Media won numerous awards for advertising, among them a Bronze Lion at Cannes, several Golds at San Sebastian and multiple ADDYs and FIAPs. In 2006 Jaime edited and co-produced his first film, Children Rise, about homeless children living on the streets of Durban, South Africa, narrated by Charlize Theron. Jaime is represented by Lost Planet Editorial in his editing for advertising. The owner of Lost Planet and an editor as well, Hank Corwin (The Tree of Life, JFK, Natural Born Killer, A New World, among others) hired Jaime after seeing the campaigns he did for Got Milk and Chevy. This publishing house was honored by Ad Weekly for being the company with the most awards in the US since opening over 20 years ago.
  • Original title Burned
  • Director Jaime Valdueza
  • Duration 17
  • Production year 2015
  • Aspect 2:35:1
  • Format DCP
  • Category Short Film
  • Subcategory Fiction
  • Genre Romance, Terror, Thriller
  • Nationality Spain, United states
  • Producer Milo & Brooklyn Studios
  • Dialogue language English
  • Subtitle language Spanish
  • Intérpretes Micha Hauptman (Daniel), Maika Monroe (Lila), Beau Knapp (Jason), Meredith Monroe (Julie)