In this MEET THE DIRECTORS interview with Darwin Reina, (festival director of L’HIFF), Melissa Mars shares anecdotes about how her film, The Last Touch was conceived of and filmed in 2018, way before the global pandemic! Realizing how prescient the film had been, Mars revisited The Last Touch in 2020  to complete the editing and share her creation…

The Last Touch is an official selection of the upcoming Spanish film festival, L’HIFF (L’Hospitalet de Llobregat International Film Festival) that will take place in Barcelona, in person, September 13 – 18 2021.

Not only is The Last Touch competing for the BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM but it also garnered a BEST ACTRESS nomination for Melissa Mars who also received her first nominations as a BEST DIRECTOR and for BEST SCREENPLAY!