Documentary Films
IRMA (2023)
Irma is an indigenous Lenca woman who, after multiple death threats, was forced to flee Honduras—leaving her two teenage daughters behind. From Boston (USA), she has fought for years to be able to hug them again.
Direction and Production: Michele Ferris Dobles
Editing: Kim Elizondo Navarro
2023
Costa Rica International Film Festival 2023, San Jose, Costa Rica
Shnit International Film Festival, 2023, San Jose, Costa Rica
ICARO Central American International Film Festival, Guatemala 2023
Festival de Cine Radical, Bolivia, 2023
MAREA ALTA (High Tide)
Hight Tide is a coming-of-age documentary that portrays the friendship of Jessica and Carol, two girls who are best friends and who live in the smallest island of Costa Rica. Their home is under the threat of being flooded by the high tides that reach the island. At the same time that the girls deal with the inevitable change of nature, they must face the uncertainty of growing up.
Direction and Production: Michele Ferris Dobles
Awards:
Best Short Film, Costa Rica International Film Festival, 2020
Jury Special Price, SHNIT, Short Film Festival, Costa Rica, 2020
Jury Special Price, LA International Film Festival, Shorts, 2020
Best Documentary Short, BOWO Film Festival, 2021
ILIANA (2014)
Iliana is a woman of the sea. A fisherwoman who claims that: without the ocean, she dies
Direction and production: Michele Ferris Dobles
Costa Rica International Film Festival 2014, San Jose, Costa Rica 2014
ICARO Central American International Film Festival, Guatemala 2014
International Central American Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2015
International Film Festival ‘Cine Pobre’ Panama, 2016
Casa en Tierra Ajena / Home in Foreign Land (2017)
Direction: Ivannia Villalobos
Production, research, and writing by: Michele Ferris Dobles and Ivannia Villalobos
Film funded by the CONARE (National Council of Rectors of Costa Rica) Award.
Humans Rights Spots
Observatorio Permanente de Derechos Humano, Aguán, Honduras / Permanent Observatory of Human Rights, Aguán, Honduras (2017)
Edited and produced by: Michele Ferris Dobles
The Aguán Permanent Human Rights Observatory is a peasant project for the defense of life in Honduras. Their work allows the systematization, documentation, and denunciation of human rights violations in the recovered peasant settlements.
Funded by the CONARE (National Council of Rectors of Costa Rica) Award.
COFAMIPRO, Honduras (2017)
Edited and produced by: Michele Ferris Dobles
COFAMIPRO: Self-managed organization for the search for missing migrants in Honduras. This spot tells the story of COFAMIPRO, a Honduran non-profit organization, made up mostly of women, that is dedicated to the search of disappeared migrants. This audiovisual shows us how these brave women risk everything to find those forced to migrate.
Funded by the CONARE (National Council of Rectors of Costa Rica) Award.
COFAMIDE, El Salvado (2017)
Edited and produced by: Michele Ferris Dobles
COFAMIDE: Committee of relatives of deceased and disappeared migrants from El Salvador is a profile of COFAMIDE, a Salvadoran non-profit organization that works daily to provide support to families who are in search of their relatives who have disappeared due to forced migration. This video recovers some of the testimonies of the people who are part of this organization.
Funded by the CONARE (National Council of Rectors of Costa Rica) Award.
Institutional Films
Memorias de un sueño / Memories of a Dream (2016)
The history of Costa Rica’s Technical Institute
Directed and written by: Michele Ferris Dobles
Funded by TEC (Costa Rica Technical Institute)
Educational Documentary: the history of the independence of Costa Rica.
Campaña 1856 Redescubriendo nuestra historia (2016)
Documentary produced for the Ministry of Public Education of Costa Rica (MEP). This is an educational film about the history of the independence of Costa Rica.
Written and directed by: Michele Ferris Dobles. Produced by: Caramba Films.
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