Camila Santana, Estrellita Ynoa, Yarisel Ynoa, Maite Ynoa
“You know, I really don’t know this character. I’m trying my best to build it. But I have nowhere to draw from.” Feeling unprepared for an upcoming role as a pregnant teen from the outskirts of Santo Domingo, Camila (Camila Santana), an actor from a middle-class background, decides to meet with girls in the same situation for inspiration. But the process – which sees a sorority of 15 young expectant mothers talk candidly about their lives on-camera – has an unexpected influence on the film’s production, making it a collaboration of the imagination and pushing it into unchartered territory.
Initially presented as a behind-the-scenes making-of, Victoria Linares Villegas’ Ramona quickly reveals itself to be something more artful – a pastel-coloured, postmodernist mix of telenovela pastiche, observational documentary, filmed rehearsals, cinéma vérité and theatre that constantly plays with the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, real life and artifice.
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