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Patricia Velásquez Guzmán to Shoot Trans Drama ‘Where Do Birds Go When It Rains?’ in Co-Production With Spain’s Potenza Producciones (EXCLUSIVE)
Costa Rica's Patricia Velásquez Guzmán to explore trans motherhood in drama 'Where Do Birds Go When It Rains?' co-produced by Spain's Potenza
The drama is produced by Velasquez’s Costa Rica-based Tiempo Liquido and has just landed a co-production deal with Spain’s Potenza Producciones (“Calladita,” “The Memory of Water”) with filming planned to start in the second semester of 2025. Velásquez, who is currently delivering her first edition at the helm of the Costa Rica International Film Festival, recalls her time working as a psychologist on a project with sex workers many years ago, where she met a trans woman caring for a young girl who had been abandoned. The film will also broach issues of class inequality in Costa Rica, with Lola leaving a big city and heading to the Pacific Coast, a region Velásquez says presents “a great contrast in privilege.” “You have luxury hotels full of rich tourists enjoying their resort holidays but also people who don’t have access to water.
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