The Curve of the Earth

DocumentaryExperimental

Apr 23

Written by Mike Ambs

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A film by Lorenzo Benitez

Nearly four years after befriending on Facebook someone with the exact same name as him, Lorenzo Benitez ventures to South America to meet the friend he had come to know in writing, but had yet to meet in-person.

Over the course of a few weeks in August 2018, what began in jest evolves in sincerity as the two appraise the surprising significance of their serendipitous friendship.

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Directed by
Lorenzo Benitez

Subtitles by
Dominic Ryan

Music by
Jesse Martens

Produced by
u16.co

Featuring
Lorenzo Benitez (of Uruguay)

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Lorenzo Benitez

Lorenzo Benitez is a Filipino-Australian filmmaker based in New York. His award-winning and critically-acclaimed films, which include two features and several shorts, have been internationally streamed on Amazon Prime Video; programmed at the Maysles Documentary Center and Harvard University; nationally televised in Australia on the ABC; and theatrically exhibited in New York and Melbourne.