A Surprising Gory & Vengeful Short from Spain ,”DANA”, is now running in the OSCARS® race

After More than 120 Festival Selections and 42 Awards, Director Lucía Forner Segarra is gearing up for the International Awards Race.

[Watch the trailer here]

The highly acclaimed rape-revenge short film DANA serves as a glorious catharsis for Spanish writer-director Lucía Forner Segarra, whose inspiration for the story came to her after an assault.

Watch the film (December 21st):

www.ChicArt.world/dana

The angry yet humorous short has been selected at over 120 film festivals, collecting 42 awards along the way, including the prestigious Best Live Action Short Award at the Oscar®-qualifying St-Louis International Film Festival. This highly coveted recognition propels Forner Segarra into the 2022/23 international awards race. DANA was also shortlisted for the Goya awards, Spain’s main national annual film awards.

“Fantastic twist, under a #MeToo lens, on the revenge and urban vigilante genres, with a mise-en-scène of utmost elegance and a brilliant use of dark comedy,” said Xavi Sánchez Pons (Selection Committee of Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia) about the short.

The story is about Diana, a young woman who after surviving an assault decides something must change and takes the law into her own hands under the moniker DANA.

“DANA burst out of my guts. It has allowed me to work through my anger and trauma, and to talk openly about a topic as taboo as sexual assault. Thanks to the short, I have connected with the people around me and with strangers, women who have opened up to me about their assaults. There has not been a screening of DANA in which no one spoke up in person or through social media about this issue afterwards,” says director Lucía Forner Segarra.

“It isn’t a comfortable subject and in most cases, the victim knows the aggressor and it is extremely hard to speak up and report it. But it must be done and that’s why I made this movie,” she concludes.

DANA is an 18-min short written, directed, and produced by Lucía Forner Segarra. It stars Thais Blume (DANA), Niko Verona (TOMÁS), Josean Bengoetxea(AUGUSTO), Iñake Irastorza (FERRETER). Cinematography by Claudia Rodríguez. Production Design by Luciana Garriga. Editing by Fanny Fernández Morales. Original score by Joan Vilà. Distribution Company: YAQ.

To know more about DANA, please visit the following links:

Official Website: www.DanaShortFilm.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063650247117

Instagram: www.instagram.com/lucia_forner_segarra/

Twitter: @Forner_Lucia

Hashtag: #DanaShortFilm

Stream the film (until December 21st): www.ChicArt.world/dana

Lucía Forner Segarra, director.
Photo Courtesy of the director.

IMDb

Lucía Forner Segarra
Writer, Director, Producer

In my film studies, I trained as a cinematographer. I wrote screenplays as a hobby, until I went on to direct them and realized that what I enjoyed the most was telling my own stories. I have written, directed and produced several shorts. “Dana” and “Marta” being the most recent. They have been selected and awarded at festivals all over the world. I am currently preparing my first feature, a horror comedy in line with my previous work. When I’m not directing my own films, I work as a video operator on feature films and commercial shoots.

DIRECTOR’S NOTES

DANA burst out of my guts. It has allowed me to work through my anger and trauma, and to talk openly about a topic as taboo as sexual assault. Thanks to the short I have connected with the people around me and with strangers, women who have opened to me about their assaults. There has not been a screening of DANA in which no one spoke up in person or through social media about this issue.

It isn’t a comfortable subject and in most cases the victim knows the aggressor and it is extremely hard to speak up and report it. But it must be done and that’s why I made this movie.