Wait
Language Spanish
Duration 14 min.
Topic LGBTQ +
Subtitled in Lithuanian
Two men share an intimate conversation on the eve of their break up, exploring the desire to escape, intimacy, and loneliness.
Producer Sayre Quevedo
Translation Laura Stašaitytė
Subtitles Ignė Narbutaitė
Animation Emilija Juzeliūnaitė
Awards Wait (Espera) won the Directors Choice award at the Third Coast International Audio Festival (2018) and was shortlisted for the Hearsay International Audio Arts Festival ‘Celebrate’ and GanBéarla awards (2019).
Sayre Quevedo
Sayre Quevedo is an artist and journalist. He works across mediums to tell stories about intimacy, identity, and human relationships. Quevedo began as a reporter with Youth Radio in Oakland, California at the age of 15 in 2008. In 2018 his piece 'Espera' received the Third Coast/RHDF Directors' Choice Award and his other piece 'The Quevedos' was nominated for a Best Audio Documentary award by the International Documentary Association (IDA). The following year he won the 2019 Third Coast/RHDF Gold Award for Best Documentary for 'The Return' . It was also nominated for a Best Audio Documentary award by the IDA, his second nomination two years in a row. Quevedo was the Fall 2019 Podcaster-In-Residence for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and an Associate Producer for ‘The Daily’ at The New York Times and NPR’s Latino USA. He currently works as a producer for VICE News.
