In 1988, Uruguay’s ostensibly first direct-to-video release hit the shelves: Acto de violencia en una joven periodista. Over the decades, this bizarre amateur psycho thriller turned into a local cult item, in no small part because of the mysteries that surrounded its director, Manuel Lamas – who was nowhere to be found. Did he really exist? What about those further three films he supposedly made but which seem to never have seen any kind of release?