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Lady Henze

A documentary by Eduardo C. Torres

Award WinnerIndie Short Fest2025
Award WinnerLondon Seasonal Short Film Festival2025
Award WinnerNew York Film & Female Actress Award2026

EXT. The street — day

The city is her canvas. Britt Henze, in her own hand.

Black-and-white image of the artist outlining a large poppy with a paint marker.

INSERT: Festival run

Nine awards

Award WinnerIndie Short Fest2025
Award WinnerLondon Seasonal Short Film Festival2025
Award WinnerIndieX Film Fest2025
Award WinnerBest Micro Short SoCal Film AwardsSeason 20
Award WinnerCentral Coast Film Festival2025
Award WinnerNew York Film & Female Actress Award2026
Award WinnerLos Angeles Movie & Music Video Awards2025
Award WinnerSeattle Filmmaker Awards2025
Award WinnerVienna Indie Short Film Festival2025
  • Winner, Best Micro Docs · NEXT UP Fest
  • Finalist · WSXA Paris International Film Festival, WSXA Amsterdam International Film Festival, Oregon Documentary Film Festival
  • Honorable Mention · Stockholm City Film Festival, South Pacific Film Festival
  • Nominee · Doc Only, London Directors' Talents
  • Official Selection · Diversity in Cannes Short Film Showcase, San Francisco Frozen Film Festival, The Indie Gathering International Film Festival, Better Cities Film Festival, Short Film Breaks, Sasqwatch International Film Festival, Santa Clarita International Film Festival, Bay Area & Sacramento (BASH) Short Film Festival, CKF International Film Festival, Your Way International Film Festival, Black Owl Festival, Tokyo Film & Screenplay Awards, Cinema Royale: Paris Edition, Liberty Films Festival
  • Quarterfinalist · Australia Independent Film Festival
  • Semifinalist at seven festivals, including Lonely Wolf London International Film Festival and WSXA Barcelona
Official Lady Henze poster.

CREDITS

Lady Henze A documentary by Eduardo C. Torres
With Britt Henze
Executive producer Janice Engel
Producers Raquel Calvo Méndez, Nikole Haraszti
Director of photography Sebastián Cardama
Editor Eduardo C. Torres

CUT TO: San Francisco, 1906

Pull Hook 24Our Silent Voices

Award WinnerSan Francisco Women Film Festival2026

The untold story of San Francisco's fire boxes and the earthquake of 1906.

  • Official Selection · Joburg Film Festival
  • Official Selection · San Francisco Frozen Film Festival
  • Nominee · Golden Gate International Film Festival
  • Official Selection · Paris Lift-Off Film Festival

Written and directed by Eduardo C. Torres
Narrator Rae Cofsky
With Anthony Rivera, Jamie O'Keefe, Malcolm Rodgers
Producers Raquel Calvo Méndez, Nikole Haraszti, Qiaoyu Yang
Executive producers Janice Engel, Samuel Limor
Director of photography Jay Bolusan
Editors Eduardo C. Torres, Cynthia Vyle

Pull Hook 24: Our Silent Voices poster, a vintage San Francisco fire alarm box reading Fire Alarm, Break Glass.
Black-and-white profile of a woman by the sea, holding white flowers.
Pull Hook 24
Archival image of men clearing rubble among brick ruins after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Archival, 1906

CUT TO: Filmography

More films

INSERT: Publications

House LightsThe Director’s Manual

A personal reference on story, directing, image, sound and production, built on published sources and work on set.

By Eduardo C. Torres
Editions Hardcover and softcover
Languages English and Spanish

Inside the book
House Lights: The Director’s Manual, hardcover edition.

INT. The studio

New stories.
Page One.

The fold. The cut. The beginning. The moment a story stops being an idea and becomes an image. Every film begins on page one.

INT. The director

Eduardo C. Torres

A Spanish film director with a deep connection to Mexico, where he was raised in a family of novelists exiled during the Spanish Civil War.

He is completing an MFA in Directing at Academy of Art University in San Francisco. His documentaries Lady Henze and Pull Hook 24: Our Silent Voices have been selected and awarded at festivals on five continents, including the Joburg Film Festival, the San Francisco Frozen Film Festival and Diversity in Cannes.

MONTAGE: Three cities

Madrid
Los Angeles
San Francisco

DISSOLVE TO: Contact

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