DIRECTOR STATEMENT
Pork Skin is a short descent into a personal nightmare — a fairy tale turned grotesque. Set in a forgotten
corner of Mexico City, it follows Mari, a 14-year-old girl searching for her missing brother, as she crosses
paths with a quiet man who hides something far darker than it seems.

From the beginning, I wanted this film to feel like a twisted bedtime story — a horror tale told through the lens of childhood, but with adult consequences. The film draws on archetypes from European fairy tales (Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel), as well as the visual grammar of 60s and 70s giallo cinema. Monsters, in this world do not hide under beds; they cook breakfast in the same place where they kill. The aesthetic decision to mix digital, film, and handycam formats came from a desire to fragment perception.

Mari’s camera — her only tool — becomes the viewer’s eye. It's shaky, fragile, sometimes brave, sometimes
unsure. Through her, the film explores the blurry line between witnessing and being consumed. I imagined this story not as a mystery to solve, but as an experience to survive. Pork Skin doesn’t offer clear answers. It lives in the filth and silence of places we’d rather not see and in the gaze of those who refuse to look away. A window into a place where violence is normalized, where horror no longer needs a mask. Where flesh — quite literally — becomes commodity. And in that place, Mari — like so many silenced characters — is
a girl who dares to look.

DIRECTOR BIO
Benjamin Garcia Soliz was born in 2000 in Cochabamba, Bolivia, a small town in one of the most
secluded countries in South America. A film enthusiast from a young age, he began making short
films in middle school with the help of friends and family. In high school, he took various workshops
in film, dramaturgy, and writing. In 2018, he moved to La Paz to study film at the Escuela Andina de
Cinematografía, where he was mentored by teachers like Jorge Sanjines, until the school closed in
2020 due to the pandemic. The following year, he moved to Mexico City to continue his studies. Since
2021, he has been pursuing a degree in cinematography at the Escuela Superior de Cine (ESCINE),
creating several short films. In addition to filmmaking, he enjoys good food, photography, and
storytelling.