The Reaper (2013 film)

The Reaper
The Reaper
	Film poster
Directed by	Gabriel Serra Argüello
Produced by	Henner Hofmann; Karla Bukantz
Running time	29 minutes
Countries	Mexico; Nicaragua
Language	Spanish

The Reaper (Spanish: La parka) is a 2013 biographical documentary film by Gabriel Serra Argüello about Efrain Jimenez Garcia, a slaughterhouse worker who has been killing 500 bulls a day, six days a week, for the past 25 years. The Reaper was a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 87th Academy Awards.^[1]

The film recounts how Efrain first started working in the slaughterhouse and how constantly being around death has begun to take its toll on him, with nightmares about the tables being turned and animals taking revenge on him.^[2]

Awards and nominations edit

Awards
Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipients and nominees	Result
Academy Award	February 22, 2015	Best Short Subject Documentary^[3]	Gabriel Serra Arguello	Nominated

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External links edit

The Reaper at IMDb

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