Can’t Help But Run
She is a free, uncompromising spirit and compulsively kleptomaniac. He is a night-shift worker, stuck in a grey, monotonous warehouse where he can keep his lover —a plastic mannequin rescued from a garbage container. One night, after arguing with her sister, she runs away, sprinting across the neon streets of New York Chinatown, bumping into random passersby and deftly stealing from them. Her spree takes her all the way across the city, until she crashes upon him and his mannequin lover. This fatidic encounter gets abruptly interrupted by the people she’s stolen from, who’ve followed her across the city seeking revenge. Will he side with her, or will he stay faithful to his mannequin and job? Perhaps this random encounter between polar opposites will make them realize that they’re lacking something the other one has.
Biofilmography
Madrid. He is a New York based filmmaker and actor. After starting a bachelor in fine arts at RISD, he transferred to NYU, where he is a Film & TV undergrad.
Pedro’s films have been showcased several times in Spain and the US.
His most recent works include Bajar (2017), winner of the Madrid Young Talent Award, Leaves (2018), screened at NFFTY and Angaelica Film Festival, and The Red Balloon (2019), a short film commissioned by the Empire State building. His last short film is The gatherer (2021)
As an actor, Pedro has starred in several award winning short movies, such as Cachorro (Jesús Rivera, ECAM, 2016) and Virginia (Francesc o Puppinio, Northern Film School, 2018), as well as in the Spanish TV series Centro Médico (2018) and Derecho a Soñar (2019).
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