ShortList 2019: How ‘Las Del Diente’ Tackles Women’s Fertility Issues in a Cartoon With Teeth

When Ana Perez Lopez began working on “Las Del Diente” (“The Ones With Teeth”) as her thesis film for Cal Arts, she started researching how to freeze your eggs and what that might cost. She had interviewed a bunch of experts who both supported and objected to the procedure, but felt that everyone had an agenda. So she posted to her Facebook to get some real perspectives on fertility from people she knew. “I got three or four responses,” she said, “and then one of them was the woman who talked about having the tooth in her ovary.” And that’s how she learned about teratomas, a kind of tumor comprised of tissues that’s usually not present at the site — according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, teratomas “might often contain teeth.” And that helped fuel her Spanish-language short “Las Del Diente,” a finalist in TheWrap’s ShortList Film Festival. Perez Lopez explained that having teeth in Spanish also means being brave, giving her title a double meaning. Also Read: 2019 ShortList Film Festival Finalists Announced: Watch and Vote for the Winner!! In the film, three women talk about freezing their eggs and the way the “female body is a...

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