THREE PARTS TO A HUG

11 min – 2012
Colombia
Spañish

A hug, not a kiss.
A hug, almost a kiss.
A hug as a kiss.

CAST & CREW

writer director ALVARO D. RUIZ
first hug DAVID VALENCIA SOFÍA ARRIETA second hug NICOLÁS DELGADO PAULINA GÓMEZ
third hug CAROLINA TRUJILLO JORGE LÓPEZ
producers ALVARO D. RUIZ JAIME REYES
director of photography ALEJO ARDILA production designer ANA MARÍA CABRERA
editor ALVARO D. RUIZ composers VINA LYNCH
production company PURACÉ PICTURES

“RUIZ’S WORK SHOWS CURIOSITY FOR CONCEPTS SUCH LOVE AND LONELINESS. DESPITE THESE THEMES BEING COMUN, HIS PATIENT, CAREFUL AND TRUTHFUL WAY OF STORYTELLING SKILLFULLY QUESTIONS THE VIEWERS’ EMPATHY.”

MAURO RIVERA – FILM CRITIC

FESTIVALS

NOMINEE BEST LATIN SHORT – Notodo FilmFest. Spain. 2012.
NOMINEE BEST SHORT – Cortopunzante Film Festival. Colombia. 2013.

The Very Best of Notodo Film Fest – Madrid, Spain. 2016.
Colombia in Shorts – Medellín. Colombia. 2015.
Bogotá Short Film Festival – Bogoshorts. Colombia. 2013.
MAT Audiovisual Festival – Ibagué, Colombia. 2013.
Alcine Festival, Shortlatino. – Madrid, Spain. 2013.
Cortopunzante Film Festival – Colombia. 2013.
Popayán Short Film Festival – Popayán, Colombia. 2013.
Castilla Film Festival – Medellín, Colombia. 2013.
Neiva Film Festival – Colombia. 2013.
CineToro Film Festival – Toro, Colombia. 2013.
FIBABC Iberoamerican Short Film Festival, ABC – España. 2013.
Villa de Leyva Film Festival – Colombia. 2013.
Latin Video & Audiovisual Arts Festival – Rosario, Argentina. 2013.
El Samán Film Festival ‘Jaime Osorio Gómez award for best short film’ – Viterbo, Colombia. 2013.
Nudo del Paramillo Film Festival – Ituango, Colombia. 2013.
A look inside, the best of Colombian shorts – Bucaramanga, Colombia. 2013.
Notodo FilmFest – Spain. 2012.
Sandfly Film Festival – Australia. 2012.
Santafé de Antioquia Film Festival – Colombia. 2012.

PRESS

‘THREE PARTS TO A HUG’ IN THE VERY BEST OF NOTODO FILM FEST – Puracé Pictures.
‘THREE PARTS TO A HUG’ IN ‘COLOMBIA IN SHORTS’ – Puracé Pictures.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

Every day we give others hugs in different ways: via email, by phone, in a text message… but we don’t realize we do it without thinking. “Three Parts to a Hug” seeks to give back meaning to those “casual hugs”. And it is true, once you start thinking about their significance, we cannot see a hug being given, or give one, or send one in the same way as we used to.