Silvina Schnicer and Ulises Porra Guardiola

Silvina Schnicer (Argentina) and Ulises Porra Guardiola (Spain) are both scriptwriters and directors. Together they directed TIGRE (2017), which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and participated at San Sebastian’s New Directors. CARAJITA is their second feature film and it premiered at San Sebastian’s New Directors.

Directors’ statement

“CARAJITA explores the power of the dominant classes over the dominated. As happens in many other places, in the daily discourse of the Dominican upper classes, the relationship established between the nannies and the children they take care of is narrated with a certain candor. The nannies are delegated the care and sometimes practically the entire upbringing of the infants in the house. The somewhat naïve belief that the relationships that are generated are of true trust and affection becomes opportune. However, we well know that what underlies is a social injustice, the domination of one class over the other. This domination is materialized in the exercise of impunity and is experienced as a natural order. In case of disagreements, the mechanisms that set this impunity in motion are automatic and ferocious. And, at least in the film, they are unanswerable.”