Alfonso Dela Cruz

I was fortunate enough to join Blood Tropicana as a Production Manager, as well as being part of the Art Department team. These roles helped me utilised both my organisational and creative skills, and along with a team of talented and focus-driven creatives we were able to bring this ambitious project into fruition.
Blood Tropicana is a 12-minute short sci-fi film set in a dystopian Wellington. Frank, still grieving his late wife, decides to impersonate an officer at the I.C.A, the specialist in tracking and deporting overstayers. Frank begins to question’s his fascist worldviews when he confronts an illegal immigrant inside the seedy speakeasy Blood Tropicana. The film explores the themes of migration, corruption, prejudice and loss.