Juanita
TITLE
Juanita
DIRECTOR
Karen Joaquín, Uliane Tatit
COUNTRY
Spain
YEAR
2025
DURATION
20′
GENRE
Fiction
Juanita
A 12-year-old Latina girl tries to grow up under the expectations of female beauty, despite living in Barcelona. Before a pool party, Juanita must confront something that has been growing with her: the hair on her legs.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Karen Joaquín, Uliane Tatit
Karen Joaquín (Dominican Republic) and Uliane Tatit (Brazil) are two directors who migrated to Barcelona in 2018. They met at the film school ECIB, and since then, they have been best friends and supportive partners in each other's directing projects. With "O que me parta un rayo", Karen won the Best New Filmmaker Script Award at the Sitges Film Festival. Uliane, with "As duas en punto", was part of the Official Selection at the Mecal Film Festival. JUANITA is a personal short film inspired by both of their experiences while growing up, and it resonates deeply with them as women and immigrants.
- DirectorKaren Joaquín, Uliane Tatit
- ScreenplayKAREN JOAQUÍN & ULIANE TATIT
- CinematographyMIRIAM OUCHI
- Cast
- EditingKAREN JOAQUÍN, ULIANE TATIT, YURI PÁRAMO
- Producer/s Núria Velasco Estudillo
- Production Company
- Distributor/s
- Project TitleJuanita
- Project TypeFiction
- Completion Date1 January 2025
- Country of originSpain
- Country of filmingSpain
- LanguageCatalan, Spanish
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Karen Joaquín, Uliane Tatit
Karen Joaquín (Dominican Republic) and Uliane Tatit (Brazil) are two directors who migrated to Barcelona in 2018. They met at the film school ECIB, and since then, they have been best friends and supportive partners in each other's directing projects. With "O que me parta un rayo", Karen won the Best New Filmmaker Script Award at the Sitges Film Festival. Uliane, with "As duas en punto", was part of the Official Selection at the Mecal Film Festival. JUANITA is a personal short film inspired by both of their experiences while growing up, and it resonates deeply with them as women and immigrants.
