Latas vacías, also known as Empty Cans, is a 2014 Paraguayan film and the feature film debut of Hérib Godoy.[2]
An early version of the film premiered on 10 October 2013 during the International Film Festival in Asunción and this rough cut won the Premio del Centro Cultural de la República El Cabildo, which came with a financial prize that allowed Godoy to complete his filming.[1]
A completed version of Latas vacías had its official premiere on 20 September 2014 at that year's International Film Festival in Asunción.[3]
Latas vacías is based on two short films, Accounts (2010) and Pescadape (2011), both of which were written by Hérib Godoy and also featured Aníbal Ortiz. Filming took place in Coronel Oviedo beginning in mid-October 2012 and ended on April 12, 2014, making it the first feature film shot in the city.[1][4] Within the film's first four weeks of release it sold 2,120 tickets.[5]
Alfonso (Aníbal Ortiz) is a treasure hunter that focuses his hunts on lost treasures of the Paraguayan War. However he's forced to flee a dig and ends up in Coronel Oviedo, a city that makes it survival by serving as a recycling landfill.
ABC Color wrote a favorable review for Latas vacías, noting that it had a "simple but compelling story" and praising it for making the most of the cast and crew's limited experience and resources.[5][6]
