Project Detail

Dead When I Got Here

Name: Dead When I Got Here
Director: Mark Aitken
Genre: Drama
Released: 2015
Duration: 72 min

Synopsis

This film is about a man finding purpose for his life in the most unlikely place after years of self-destruction. Infested with gangrene, unable to walk, Josué was cast out of the traumatised streets of Juárez, México into the desert and dumped in a mental asylum run by its own patients. Assisted by people employing empathy as the only means of survival, Josué transcended near death - discovering compassion in his darkest hours. Six years later, Josué manages the asylum. He dreams of his estranged daughter in California - last seen 22 years ago. Trawling the Internet, Vanessa encounters her father in the trailer for this film. The reunion offers Josué possibility to repair his shattered past and start life afresh.

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Details

Year: 2015
Type of project: Features
Running time: 72 min
Director: Mark Aitken
Producer: Mark Aitken
Executive Producer: Chuck Bowden
Editor: Sibila Estruch
Screenwriter: Mark Aitken
Director of Photography: Mark Aitken
Composer: Mark Pilkington
Principal cast: Josué Rosales

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

UK, Mexico, US coproduction

Tacit Films (UK)

mark@deadwhenigothere.org

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