The Loss
La Pérdida
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2015
Spain
16 mins
Spanish
NYC Premiere
Short Film Competition
Machu Latorre | |
Jill Golden, Sensi Nuevo | |
Enric Benavent, Mercedes León |
A grieving widower copes with doing laundry for the first time and faces life’s universal mystery … a missing sock.

About the Director
At age 19, Machu Latorre moved to the US to fulfill her dream of becoming a filmmaker and obtained a BFA in Film at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. In 2000, she met Academy Award winners Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and joined their production company Telling Pictures. Over the years, Machu has collaborated with them on multiple projects for PBS, HBO and Showtime as an editor and associate producer.