VIVA

By Paddy BREATHNACH

SALZGEBER & CO. MEDIEN GMBH - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, GERMANY

Drama - Completed 2015


Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2016
Spotlight
Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2016
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • IRELAND
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 100 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Paddy BREATHNACH
    • Writer(s)
    • Mark O’HALLORAN
    • EIDR
    • 10.5240/8E7C-8038-DD01-C78A-7550-6
    • Producer(s)
    • Rebecca O’FLANAGAN, Robert WALPOLE
    • Synopsis
    • Jesus mostly lives in the shadows – he pales in comparison to his brazen workmates and flies under the radar when doing the hair and makeup for a troupe of drag performers at a ramshackle Havana club. But he dreams of the spotlight and under the tutelage of the grande dame Mama, he becomes a performer himself and is empowered onstage as his drag persona, Viva. However, Jesus’s life takes an unexpected turn when his estranged father, former boxer Angel appears, fresh out of prison. He’s not thrilled about Jesus’s career choice and Jesus, who has always longed for a parent to be present, finds himself having to choose between his joy and his dad.