Oscar-Qualified BUSCANDO ALMA: A Story of Identity and Unconditional Love After 20 Years of Separation

BUSCANDO ALMA is about a Honduran immigrant who is given the chance to meet her mother after nearly two decades of separation. As she grapples with the uncertainty of their reunion, she is confronted by traumatic memories of her past.

This film is so good. The storyline is emotional from the perspectives of Alma the mother as well as Cristina. Two lives connected yet separated for almost 20 years, like two spirits trying to find their way home.

The cinematography is beautiful, the flashbacks properly placed giving us the backstory. Not easy to do in a short film, but it was stellar filmmaking. From scene to scene to frame to frame the story and the love flow seamlessly together to the very end.

If you are a lover of film, you will want to replay the ending a few times, because it is not only something to see, it an experience to feel and you can feel the incredible power of a mother’s love in that scene. And you can feel the unconditional love and acceptance that Cristina receives from her mother.

Melissa Fisher is a member of the International Cinematographer's Guild and has over 12+ years of industry experience working on Academy and Emmy Award winning films and television series. Melissa worked her way up from the camera PA on Michael Bay’s “Pain & Gain,” to camera assist on films like "La La Land," to eventually running the camera department on hit television shows like “GLOW” and “The Dropout”.

Melissa has made several short films that have screened in Academy Accredited festivals.

Her most recent film "Buscando Alma" won the Oscar-Qualifying Jury Award at the Out On Film Festival in Atlanta.

Carolina Gutiérrez is a Colombian actress and has recently been nominated for best actress by the Association of Colombian Actors in the TV/Film category for her role as Sara in the Colombian television show "La Costilla de Eva”. More recently, her latest film "Buscando Alma" premiered at the Out on Film Festival and received first place for a short film becoming Oscar qualified.

Carolina has also appeared in several television shows, movies, including her role as assassin Emma Ruiz on NCIS LA, Marissa on The L Word Generation Q, Sara on La Costilla de Eva in Colombia, and the lead in a national car commercial with Nissan.

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