The BlackBerry and the Firebeetle
La Mora y El Cocuyo
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2017
Venezuela
10 mins
NYC Premiere
Animated Film Competition
Isaias Perez | |
Edna Fernandes, Francisco Laurel | |
An indigenous Pemong Community tale from Venezuela that tells the journey of a Fire Beetle that finds an old Blackberry, she falls in love with him, but he rejects her. Time passes, the blackberry is reborn and the Fire Beetle receives a lesson.

About the Director
Isaías JJ Pérez’s first studies linked to filmmaking were in a Communal Documentary Study in COTRAIN, then he started studying filmmaking in ESCINTV in which he graduated as a filmmaker. He is currently studying a Bachelor’s Degree in Audiovisual Arts at The National Experimental University of Arts.