• FERNANDO •A Criollo businessman and a friend of Álvaro’s,

Fernando is an elegant man who constantly states his support for Bolívar and the Patriots, but does not

seem altogether trustworthy.

• TICO •Tico is a nice, but very stubborn little naughty boy. Son of

slaves, he's the most loyal of friends. Always in a good mood, he is more than willing to follow Arturo and Pilar

to all of their adventures.

• PILAR •Brave and dreamy, Pilar has the mixed-race beauty of her

land. Her spirit is rebellious and her heart generous. She yearns to become a captain of Simón Bolívar’s

regiment to follow his footsteps in the fight for freedom.

Pilar’s mother sells fresh produce in a Caracas market for a living. She is a courageous indigenous woman who has overcome many difficulties in order to raise

her daughter on her own.

Arturo’s father is a hardworking man and a clever blacksmith. He always tries to stay away

from politics, taking sides with neither Royalists nor Patriots.

Tico’s parents are kind and hard working. They do their best to take care of their children

and try to teach them everything they know. They feel particularly proud of little Tico.

• SOLÓRZANO •The leader of the King’s army, Solórzano is a powerful man

who does not hide his contempt for Bolívar and the revolutionary cause. The sworn enemy of Patriots, he carries

himself with elegance, while his gaze is arrogant and piercing.

• ARTURO •Arturo is an intelligent and thoughtful kid. He is motherless and

his gaze is sad, but he is also courageous and determined. Despite his apparent fragility, he knows how to be strong and how

to face any danger to look after his friends.

• BOLÍVAR •Bolívar is an idealist, a true leader for his followers

and an outstanding military strategist. He never gives up. His enthusiasm and bravery encourage the patriots to persevere in the fight for freedom.

EL LIBerTADOR

Hello. My name is Pilar,

and just like my friends Tico and Arturo, I live in a city of red roofs and pared streets.

In my country, nature is exuberant and amazing.

Every morning reveals a display of new colors, and the most fabulous, pristine waterfalls appear here and there, in the middle of pure green mountains.

But my country is not free... as a faraway kingdom is imposing its law and order on us.

The PrODucTIon In 2012, the Venezuelan production company Orinoco Films, started the animated feature film project about the feats of South American hero Simón Bolívar. For the realization of this project Orinoco Films created a team led by director Juan Pablo Buscarini, screen writer Enrique Cortés, and historian Carmen Bohórquez.

Many people stand behind the King and use weapons to prevent things from changing.

The goal was to use the most advanced technology in stereoscopic 3D animation, so they reached out to various specialists in this field worldwide.

Most of us, however, long for freedom... and therefore we fight.

The design process for all the scenery, costumes and characters was completed between 2013 and 2014 in Venezuela, Argentina, United States, Serbia, Hong Kong, and India. Meanwhile motion capture was carried out in London.

The fight is fierce.A brave man named Simón Bolívar leads us.

By early 2015, the film was becoming a reality, but there was still a lot to be done. It was then that the Villa del Cine Foundation became interested in the project and got involved as a major co-producer of the film, in order to impulse and reinforced its realization.

He never gives up, despite the fact that the King’s army is powerful.

He’s a dreamer, like my friends and me.

The time to record the voices arrived and the possibility of working with children was exciting for the production team. The casting took place in Caracas, where over 200 talents were auditioned, including professional actresses specialists in children voices and children actors with non-previous experience in dubbing. As a result we selected the children actors Carlos Pulido, Angella González and Yaguaimar Contreras as the voices of Arturo, Pilar and Tico. A long and intense seven-month training process followed to prepare the children on the technical and dramatic elements required for the project.

One day, Tico, Arturo and I discovered an amazing secret... something nobody expected.

Something capable of changing the course of history forever.

Renowned Venezuelan actress Patricia Velásquez lent her voice to the female protagonist of the story, Pilar as an adult, while the versatile Simón Pestana voiced Latin-American hero Simón Bolívar.

To bring more realism to the voices of villains Solórzano and Madrigal, Spanish actors were hired to work in separate sessions in the city of Madrid.

Thus begins a fantastic adventure that will turn us into...

The score was written by Spanish composer Zacarías de la Riva and performed by Venezuela’s National Philharmonic Orchestra, along with the Venezuelan singer Betsayda Machado and a talented group of artists, associated with the Venezuelan National Network of Youth and Children’s Orchestras. It was recorded in Caracas, at the José Félix Rivas Hall of the Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex, in September 2016.

Thus ends a long, complex production process that would make possible the premier in 2017 of the first South American film that uses MoCap technique and the first Venezuelan 3D stereoscopic animation feature film...

ThE DirECtoRJuan Pablo Buscarini is a renowned film producer and director. He had participated in the making of well known international films such as “La Señal”, “La Leyenda”, “La Mosca en la Ceniza”, “Sudor Frío”, “Peter Capusotto y sus Tres Dimensiones” and “Un Cuento Chino”. He had directed successful films distributed in Latin America by BuenaVista International: Prize awaided films such as: “Condor Crux” (2000), “El Ratón Pérez” (2006) and “El Arca” (2007), “The Games Maker” (2014) starring David Mazouz, Joseph Fiennes and Edward Asner, and the blockbuster “Tini: El Gran Cambio de Violeta” (2016). His most recent animated film is “Little Heroes”, the first South American film that uses MoCap technique.

LeAdiNg RolESAfter a long and demanding auditioning period that included more tan 200 Venezuelan talents Carlos Pulido, Angella González, and Yaguaimar Contreras were the children selected and prepared for almost six months in acting, dubbing and diction techniques to play the voices of the main three characters of our story: Arturo, Pilar and Tico.

PatRIciA VelÁZquEZ, yoUNg PilARPatricia Velázquez is a Venezuelan actress and producer with a well known trajectory in the entertainment world. She was a top model for the international fashion mars Channel, Gucci and Carolina Herrera and the first Latin-American Cover Girl for the Anglo-Saxon world. Her filmography includes the Hollywood blockbuster films: “The Mummy”, “The Mummy Return”, and other independent projects such as “Liz en Septiembre”, directed by Fina Torres and “Zapata” directed by Alfonso Arau. In “Litlle Heroes” she plays the voice of Young Pilar.

SimÓN peStANa, SImóN bOLívAR Simón Pestana is a reknowened venezuelan actor, mostly for his participations in successful soap operas such as ”Pura Sangre”, “Carita Pintada”, “Entre tu Amor y mi Amor”, amongst other Venezuelan productions, “Chiquititas”, “Amor Sagrado” made in Argentina and “Secretos” made in Perú. He had also acted in numerous plays. In the documentary cicle “Venezuela Tierra de Gracia” he worked as a producer and director. His leading role in the film “Diario de Bucaramanga” got him an award as Best Actor in El Festival de Cine de Oriente. Most recently he played the voice of Bolivar in the film “Little Heroes”.

La vILla DEl CinEThe Venezuela’s first and only state-owned film Production Company. It was established as a banner cultural project for the furthering of the arts. Its first release was the feature film “Miranda Regresa” (2006). Among its eighty productions are “Habana Eva” (2010), “Taita Bóvez” (2010), “Azul y No Tan Rosa” (Goya winner, 2013), and Luis Alberto Lamata’s Bolívar, “El Hombre de las Dificultades” (2013).

OriNOco FIlMsOrinoco Films is a Latin-American production company established in Venezuela in 2008. It participated in the production of Oliver Stone’s South of the Border (2009). Since then, it has been involved in numerous projects for both cinema and television, under the executive direction of Argentinians Fernando Sulichin and Pablo Bossi and José Ibáñez. It was in charge of the international production of the Spanish- Argentinean film “Sólo para Dos” (2013), and it co-produced the international film “The Games Maker” (2014), both distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It just completed the production of the first Venezuelan 3D animated film, and the first one in South America that uses MoCap technique, “Little Heroes”.

DAta ShEeTTitle: Pequeños Héroes / Little HeroesDirector: Juan Pablo BuscariniProducers: Andreina Agustí / Pablo Bossi / Fernando SulichinArt Director: Mercedes AlfonsínScreenplay: Enrique CortésMusic: Zacarías De La RivaSound Engineer: Carlos AbbateEditing & Assembly: Estudios Pampa FilmsLeading Voices: Patricia Velásquez, Simón Pestana, Carlos Pulido, Angella González y Yaguaimar ContrerasCountry: VenezuelaYear: 2017Genre: AdventureDuration: 76 MinutesLanguage: Spanish Production Companies: Villa Del Cine / Orinoco Films

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