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• Written and directed by Noé Valladares, Encuentros tells the story of Joaquín, a young man who flees from his past, played by actor Pechán Osorio.
• Recorded during vacations and weekends, between 2012 and 2015, the film’s settings cover a good part of Salvadoran geography: El Palmarcito beach, the coastal tunnels, Panchimalco, Suchitoto, Ataco, the Historic Center of San Salvador.
• The film included more than 100 days of filming, in 50 different locations.
• The production team has launched a crowdfunding campaign to finish the post-production processes of the film with the goal in mind of being able to release it next 2026:

Encuentros is the new film by Salvadoran filmmaker Noé Valladares that shows that reality is like fiction and that dreams are realities. Filmed during holidays and weekends, between 2012 and 2015, the project has just launched a crowdfunding campaign to complete the film’s post-production processes.

On October 2, a fundraising campaign was successfully launched through the indigogo platform with the goal of raising USD 17,000.00 to complete the sound post-production, color correction, grading and visual effects processes, so that it can be released in 2026. The campaign
It is carried out under the all-or-nothing modality, so these days are intense work for the group behind the project and the film’s producers Chimbolo Films and Amanda Producciones.

The story of Encuentros, written by Noé Valladares, is Joaquín’s story and could be that of other young people who were born in violent contexts. The threads of their lives are woven from the beginning, entangled in other violent stories from which they flee. And in that escape appears the surrealist aesthetic of Valladares and its unexpected characters, which in the end is the reality of life and the streets that the protagonist encounters and that the film’s production team also encountered.

Encuentros is a project with very particular characteristics, which make it a unique film in the ecosystem of audiovisual production. It is a collaborative feature film project that was born from one person, its director Noe Valadares, it fell in love with three, convinced ten and has excited more than 350 people who have collaborated on the film to date as actors, extras, assistants on the set, giving up spaces, providing props, costumes, transportation, refreshments, security, among other needs.

The film has among its cast professional actors and actresses who were participating in a film for the first time, such as the case of the protagonist Pechán Osorio, Milton Barahona, Milton Torres, Lissania Zelaya and Violeta Barrera. Natural actors such as co-star Silvia Tejada also participate, with a profession very far removed from acting. In addition, the film stars César Pineda, a Salvadoran theater actor.

Another characteristic that makes Encuentros a unique project is that it has been an alternative film school for the people who make up the team and for those who have approached it. All of this, in coherence with the career of the director and members of the production team, coming from the school of community cinema, where cinema is conceived as a tool that must be shared and provided to people for their creative expression.

The film included more than 100 days of filming, in 50 different locations. The project has also allowed innovation with new forms of production. In this context, a film has emerged that acquires an unforeseen production value, by portraying public spaces and settings that have already disappeared or have been transformed over the years.

About Noah Valladares

Noé Valladares has directed films such as The Journey (2021) and The Virtue of a Saint (1995). Graduated from the National Center of Arts of El Salvador (CENAR), with film studies in Cuba, he worked at the National Dramatic Center of Spain and was a teacher at the Royal School of Dramatic Arts in Madrid, (Spain). He assisted in the
directed the Chilean filmmaker Miguel Littin in the film Sandino, was a production assistant in the film Walker, directed by the English filmmaker Alex Cox, assistant director in the feature film El Espectro de la Guerra by the Nicaraguan filmmaker Ramiro Lacayo and has served as a director of the Salvadoran Film and Television Association (ASCINE). He has been a teacher at the Mónica Herrera School of Communications and at the UTEC Technological University, he has written and directed several short films and written several film scripts, he is the representative of Premios Platino for El Salvador, and he has served as director of the ACISAM Community Film School where he has accompanied many young people in their foray into the film world.

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