
The Dreamcatcher
El atrapasueños
GUILLERMO PATRIKIOS ALUM I 2024 I Spain I 14:52 min
Horror Drama I Spanish w/ English subititles I Philippine Premiere
OPENING SHORT FILM I TUTOK: ESPANYA
Juan, a boy with an overflowing imagination, writes his dreams and nightmares in notebooks but soon discovers that the monsters inhabiting his nightmares are coming to life, threatening to escape into the real world. With a growing fear that these terrifying beings will consume him, his mother, María, decides to intervene, giving him a special dreamcatcher that she used in her own childhood to lock her drawings.

SCREENING SCHEDULE

AUGUST 29, 2025 I FRIDAY
5 PM I CENTRO DE TURISMO
FREE I Intermission gap after Opening Films
co-presented with Sentro Rizal Filipinas
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CENTRO DE TURISMO & MUSEO INTRAMUROS
Old San Ignacio Church, Arzobispo St, Intramuros, Manila, 1002 Metro Manila

Guillermo Patrikios Alum graduated in Journalism and Audiovisual Communication from Francisco de Vitoria University in 2011. In 2016, his passion for cinema led him to Los Angeles, where he earned a Master’s in Film and Television Direction at UCLA. He worked with studios like Fox Film Corporation, Spectrevision, and La Panda Producciones. His first short film, The Game, won awards at the Olympus Film Festival and WorldFest Houston. His second, The Art of Loving, was named “Best Drama Short” by the New York Film Academy. During the 2020 pandemic, he completed The Dreamcatcher. Back in Spain, he continues the family legacy through Fort Films Producciones.






