The Accidental Filmmaker

While away at college, Jaime receives a distressing call. His father is critically ill. With no money and no car, he hops the first bus home and spends the next two hours reflecting upon his dad’s life.
Although a wonderful husband and father, the man had squandered money they didn’t have to pursue his lifelong dream of making a movie. None of his scripts had been accepted for funding. Jaime loved his dad and had always looked up to him, but never understood his filmmaking passion. He resolved to keep his feet firmly on the ground and his head out of the clouds.
Rushing to his father’s bedside, he arrives in time for the man to exact a deathbed promise. “Jaime, promise me you’ll get my movie made—it’s my best script ever!”
Determined to keep The Promise, Jaime travels to Quito to retrieve the script his dad had sent to CineFondos for possible funding. Discovering it, too, has been rejected, he meets eight-year-old Manuelito (the best shoeblack in town), David (a very smart dog), Jorge (an eccentric fellow who has always talked about being in a movie), Luisa (a film school graduate who is not what she seems), and a plethora of other odd characters who band together for a common goal.
They survive an explosion, encounter three very colorful women determined to be “the stars” of the film, and end up in jail. Will the movie ever be completed? If so, will it be the success Jaime’s father envisioned?
Throughout the lengthy and often trying learning experience, Jaime comes to understand and appreciate his father’s dream and it has an astounding impact upon his life.