The Naptime
TFI Suppport
Logline
A visual elegy through the eyes of the director that follows how families learn to live with the loss of a child.
Carolina Platt
DIRECTOR
Carolina Platt studied Audiovisual Arts at University of Guadalajara in Mexico, where she directed two short films: Cuento de Gaviotas y Verde Pistache. The Naptime is her first full-length documentary film.
Lorena Padilla
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Lorena Padilla has a BA in Audiovisual Arts from the University of Guadalajara and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts/NYU, where she attended as a Fulbright scholar. In the last fifteen years, she has lived in Mexico, England, United States, Spain, Ecuador and Peru where she has worked as a producer, screenwriter, and director. Her feature film script "MARTINEZ" participated at the Script Station/Berlinale Talents, Script & Pitch/Torino Film Lab and Cine Qua Non Lab. This script has been supported by Tribeca Film Institute and by the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE) earning the Scriptwriters and Development Grants and FOPROCINE. As an Executive Producer, she won the TFI Latin America Arts Funds from Tribeca Film Fund with the documentary “The Naptime.” With Rodrigo Reyes, Guggenheim Fellow and Sundance Fellow, she wrote his new documentary project “499.”She currently lives in Dallas, where she teaches Film Directing and Screenwriting at Southern Methodist University.