PRODUCTION STATEMENT

Rafael Palacio Illingworth first feature film, MACHO, has been made with the lowest production budget possible. Nonetheless, it won the Best Micro-Budget Feature at Raindance Film Festival in the UK and was acquired for worldwide distribution by IFC Films.

Under The Milky Way has followed Rafael’s work for a long time and was very curious to see more of his second movie, Between us, which was also produced with a shoestring budget.

The film is located in Silver Lake, a very iconic neighborhood of Los Angeles, not too far from where Under The Milky Way US is located. It is, above all, a friendship movie from a local community where the crew and talents are from, living a similar lifestyle to the one depicted in the film: same generation, same desires, same doubts…

SYNOPSIS

Henry and Dianne are on the verge of settling down — that terrifying leap into home-owning, suburb-living, dog-walking, child-rearing coupledom. In short: they feel their carefree days as city-dwelling young adults coming to an abrupt and depressing end. Their heads tell them it’s the right thing, but their hearts are having second thoughts...and some unknown force seems to compel them, with that tantalizing question of “What if?” When all of their insecurities, fears and uncertainty boil to the surface during an explosive fight, the couple spends their first night apart in years. Each with their own demons to hunt down, Henry and Dianne will be tempted by the allure of another life, another lover, before ultimately realizing why they fell in love in the first place.

DIRECTOR

Rafael Palacio Illingworth is a filmmaker living and working in Los Angeles. He attended the American Film Institute Conservatory, where he was award-ed the Filmanthropy Foundation Award and the Daniel Petrie Scholarship for his achievements in directing. His first feature film, MACHO, won Best Micro-Budget Feature at Raindance Film Festival in the UK, and was acquired for worldwide distribution by IFC Films. Most recently, he received a development fund from Ibermedia for a Spanish-language project called EL GAUCHO, which will be shot in Argentina in late 2016. In addition to his filmmaking endeavors, Rafael is a talented visual artist, sculptor and painter.