SANTUARIO
Documentary Short | 26 minutes

HIFF 2018

Short Films


Directed By
Pilar Timpane
Christine Delp

Produced By
Christine Delp
Pilar Timpane

Featuring
Juana Luz Tobar Ortega


World Premiere

In Greensboro, NC, a small church community comes together to offer sanctuary to Juana Ortega, an asylum-seeking Guatemalan grandmother threatened with deportation after 25 years of living and working in the United States.

2018 | English/Spanish | USA

Plays as Part Of
Shorts Program: DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM COMPETITION

Short Film Program | 102 minutes

Featuring an array of powerful subjects, the Short Documentary Competition honors new and distinctive voices in documentary filmmaking. The winner will receive a $500 cash prize and qualify for consid…