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Melissa Rentería - 210SA

Three San Antonio-based filmmakers will have their work showcased at the Cannes International Film Festival, one of the oldest and most prestigious film festivals in the world.

The films, shot entirely or in part in San Antonio, will screen at different programs of the 62nd annual festival, which gets underway Wednesday, May 13, and runs through May 24.

Phillip Guzman

Bryan Ortiz

Mark Cantu

Among the San Antonians whose work will be shown is Phillip Guzman, co-founder of the San Antonio-based 2 Productions LLC.

His feature film “2:22,” a heist thriller Guzman directed and co-wrote with his friend and fellow filmmaker Mick Rossi, was shot mostly in Toronto in early 2008, but a few scenes were filmed in San Antonio.

It will screen out of competition at Cannes on May 14, 17 and 19. Guzman had submitted the film hoping to have it compete for some of the festival's top honors.

“2:22” will have a limited theatrical run in “high-volume areas,” says Guzman, who won't be able to attend the screenings in Cannes because he'll be busy location scouting for his next film.

The winner of last year's local 48-Hour Film Project competition, Bryan Ortiz, will have his winning-entry, the five-minute science-fiction thriller “Four Minutes Till the End,” screen at Cannes during its Short Film Corner.

Ortiz, 24, wrote and directed “Four Minutes Till the End,” which competed at the national 48-Hour Film Project contest earlier this year and was selected for the project's “best of” DVD.

Ortiz plans to attend the May 19 screening of his film at Cannes, taking one of his biggest supporters — his mother — with him.

Not screening, but still invited to attend the Cannes networking-heavy filmmakers' market, is Mark Cantu, director and co-writer of the feature film, “Echo.”

York Entertainment, which purchased “Echo” for video distribution, invited Cantu to attend the filmmakers' market, where the 30-year-old founder of Live Wire Films Ltd. will show clips from the psychological thriller to other filmmakers and potential investors.