2017
WINNERS 2017
BARAKA
BARAKA
Filming month & year: 2016
Length: 22′
Film nationality: España
Synopsis
Umayr and his best friend are two Arab children who are cast in a compound banned in search of adventure. Inside they will meet Laura, a soldier of the Spanish army abducted by terrorist forces. Children will face the dilemma of helping her or leave her where she was found, in a site that should never have come. When the soldiers who have kidnapped Laura returns they will be forced to flee the three together. The young Umayr will discover that the whole place and the soldiers have something to do with the his past.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Production company: 7 Cuerdas Films S.L
Producers: Fernando J. Monge, Néstor Ruiz Medina, Iñaki Ochoa
Filmmaker: Néstor Ruiz Medina
Scriptwriter: Juan Luis Cordero, Néstor Ruiz Medina
Composer: Marcos Cruz
Cinematography: Jorge Roig, Néstor Ruiz Medina
Cameraman: Iñaki Ochoa
Sound: James Muñoz
Edition: Iván Gutierrez
Art: Ana Hernández
Hairstyler: Laura G. Loaisa
Makeup artist: Laura G. Loaisa
FX: Mario Lucero
Narrator:
Cast: Esther Acebo, Son Khoury, Taha El Mahroug, Abel Serbouti, Samad Madkouri
Director Bio
I´m Néstor Ruiz Medina (27 years old) director, scriptwriter and lover of audiovisual language since I was a child. That´s why I decided to devote my life to that who really represent me, to tell stories to create emotions in the spectator.
I study audiovisuals in Madrid, and when I finished I created my own film company call: 7 Cuerdas Films S.L. Working in my own audiovisual company I can develop my career, my passion.
In all these years I have been working in fiction, in my own projects of short films, videoclips, art films, commercials… As a DOP I have worked in a few short and feature films. I have produced some of the most interesting short films of college friends of the industry.
Right now I´m in the promotion of my last Short film as a director: BARAKA. And Preparing my first feature film call: Yasuni, a co-production between Spain and Ecuador.
GRAFFITI
GRAFFITI
Lluís Quílez / Spain/ 2015 / 30 minutes
Synopsis: An apocalyptic world. A devastated city. A last survivor.
Artistic team
Edgar: ORIOL
Technical equipment
Director: LLUÍS QUÍLEZ
Script: JAVIER GULLÓN and LLUÍS QUÍLEZ
Producers: LLUIS QUILEZ, ESTER VELASCO and CRISTIAN GUIJARRO
Executive Producers: JEFF SKOLL, JONATHAN KING and CRISTIAN CONTI
Associated Producers: PETER H. REYNOLD and XAVIER CARDONA
Ouch. Address: DAVID CASAS
Director of photography: ISAAC VILA
Artistic director: CLARA ÁLVAREZ
Vesturium: GIOVANNA RIBES
Make-up and hairdressing: ANA M. BALSERA
Direct Sound: JORDI ROSSINYOL
Sound Design: ALBERT MANERA
Editing: J.L. ROMEU and JAUME MARTÍ
Music: ARNAU BATALLER
VFX Supervisor: LUIS TINOCO
Biofilmography director
Lluís Quílez, whose previous works in the field of short film – “EL SIGUIENTE”, “AVATAR” and “YANINDARA” – garnered wide international recognition (more than 100 awards, the double nomination for the Meliès d´Or, and pre-selection for the OSCAR® of 2007), after debuting in the feature film with “OUT OF THE DARK” (2015), returns to the short film to present “GRAFFIT” which in turn represents his first work as a producer: a romantic drama set at the end of the world, shot in the mythical and inaccessible city of Pripyat (Ukraina).
Festival Tour / Awards
GRAFFITI premiered in the official section of the 48th Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival 2015, winning Best European Short Film and Melies d’Argent. This short film is selected for the 2017 Oscars after winning in the qualifying festival of Santa Barbara in February 2016.
Palabras de Caramelo
Palabras de Caramelo
Synopsis: Kori, a deaf child who wants to learn to write to express the words of his best friend, the little camel Caramel, lives in a refugee camp in the Sahara desert.
“Words of Candy” is a docufiction, a deaf film, a sensory experience, which invites the viewer to feel, see and hear through the world of the deaf and to enjoy the beauty and silence of the desert. However, Kori’s world is unusual because he has always lived in Saharawi refugee camps and does not know sign language. He needs to learn to write to overcome the barriers of isolation and thus claim his right to education.br> Welcome to the silent world of Kori and his best friend the camel Caramel.
Director’s Biofilmography
Juan Antonio Moreno Amador (1982) is a director, scriptwriter and producer. He has directed, among others, “Boxing for Freedom”, a documentary recognized in numerous festivals, screened in more than 50 countries and selected for the European Film Awards in 2015, and the docufiction “Palabras de Caramelo”, nominated for the Goya Awards in 2017 and awarded nationally and internationally. His productions have been selected in more than 200 international festivals and have received more than 50 awards. The Carlos III University of Madrid awarded him the Excellence Prize in 2011 and in 2008 he received the Reina Sofia Prize for Social Communication. He has studied Documentation, Scriptwriting, Journalism and International Relations and teaches in the Master of Documentaries at UC3M and at the Lens School. In 2010 she created her production company Making DOC and is a member of the European and Spanish Film Academy.
Filmography
2016 – Words of Caramel. Docufiction. Director
2016 – A work of Truth. Fiction. Director
2015 – Boxing for Freedom. Documentary. Director
2015 – Kafana, stop it! Documentary. Director
2014 – Walls. Documentary. Producer
2010 – Mama Wata’s children. Documentary. Director
2007 – Kosovo, the last scar in the Balkans. Documentary. Director
Ángel caído
Ángel caído
ÁNGEL CAÍDO
Duration: 17:00
Director: FRANCISCO JAVIER PARRA GUTIÉRREZ
Synopsis: Spain in the 50s, Don Benigno’s life is easy and plenty, but everything will change when something falls over his house.
Fran Parra:
Born in Málaga in 1977. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Film, Television and Media Studies (University of Málaga). He also obtained a Master’s Degree in TV Production and Directing (IORTV-Complutense University of Madrid). He specialises in fiction and has taken part as technical assistant director in a number of TV shows such as Águila Roja or Punta Escarlata and as a second technical assistant director in TV dramas such as SMS, Amar en tiempos revueltos or Arrayán. Fran has also directed music videos, commercials and short films. Among his last works as a director we can find the feature documentary Black is Black and the short film Fallen Angel.
Las Vacas de Wisconsin
Las Vacas de Wisconsin
LAS VACAS DE WISCONSIN
Sara Traba / ESPAÑA / 2016 / V.O. Gallego / 14’ 55’’
Sara Traba
She got a degree in art history at the University of Santiago de Compostela, specializing in history of cinema.
After that, she studied cinematography at Bande À Part school of cinema in Barcelona, in the department of direction and screenplay.
She has attended workshops by filmmakers like Víctor Erice. In her works she has developed direction and screenwriting, as well as full projects by herself.
APOLO 81
APOLO 81
APOLO 81
Synopsis: Apollo or Little Red Riding Hood. Arrow or armour. Bet your love. Enter the game.
Director – Óscar Bernàcer:
Scriptwriter and director. He wrote his first story when he was six years old; “Con una lavadora al espacio” (With a washing machine in space). He didn’t get a publisher but his aunts liked it very much. Some time later he started to make short films: “Las zapatillas de Laura”, “Desayuno con diadema”, “Bikini” and “Apolo81” have been seen in hundreds of festivals and many televisions all over the world. Among the four, there are more than 160 awards, the Goya nomination and the Meliés d’Or nomination. Despite preparing his first feature film, he has written scripts for feature films and TV series. He has experience in advertising and documentaries. In 2016 he premiered “El hombre que bototelló el sol” (The Man Who Bottled the Sun). He is currently preparing the fiction series “La forastera”, the documentary series “Entre focs” and the documentary “Bastardo”.
FINALISTS
Ángel caído
Ángel caído
ÁNGEL CAÍDO
Duration: 17:00
Director: FRANCISCO JAVIER PARRA GUTIÉRREZ
Synopsis: Spain in the 50s, Don Benigno’s life is easy and plenty, but everything will change when something falls over his house.
Fran Parra:
Born in Málaga in 1977. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Film, Television and Media Studies (University of Málaga). He also obtained a Master’s Degree in TV Production and Directing (IORTV-Complutense University of Madrid). He specialises in fiction and has taken part as technical assistant director in a number of TV shows such as Águila Roja or Punta Escarlata and as a second technical assistant director in TV dramas such as SMS, Amar en tiempos revueltos or Arrayán. Fran has also directed music videos, commercials and short films. Among his last works as a director we can find the feature documentary Black is Black and the short film Fallen Angel.
APOLO 81
APOLO 81
APOLO 81
Synopsis: Apollo or Little Red Riding Hood. Arrow or armour. Bet your love. Enter the game.
Director – Óscar Bernàcer:
Scriptwriter and director. He wrote his first story when he was six years old; “Con una lavadora al espacio” (With a washing machine in space). He didn’t get a publisher but his aunts liked it very much. Some time later he started to make short films: “Las zapatillas de Laura”, “Desayuno con diadema”, “Bikini” and “Apolo81” have been seen in hundreds of festivals and many televisions all over the world. Among the four, there are more than 160 awards, the Goya nomination and the Meliés d’Or nomination. Despite preparing his first feature film, he has written scripts for feature films and TV series. He has experience in advertising and documentaries. In 2016 he premiered “El hombre que bototelló el sol” (The Man Who Bottled the Sun). He is currently preparing the fiction series “La forastera”, the documentary series “Entre focs” and the documentary “Bastardo”.
BARAKA
BARAKA
Filming month & year: 2016
Length: 22′
Film nationality: España
Synopsis
Umayr and his best friend are two Arab children who are cast in a compound banned in search of adventure. Inside they will meet Laura, a soldier of the Spanish army abducted by terrorist forces. Children will face the dilemma of helping her or leave her where she was found, in a site that should never have come. When the soldiers who have kidnapped Laura returns they will be forced to flee the three together. The young Umayr will discover that the whole place and the soldiers have something to do with the his past.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Production company: 7 Cuerdas Films S.L
Producers: Fernando J. Monge, Néstor Ruiz Medina, Iñaki Ochoa
Filmmaker: Néstor Ruiz Medina
Scriptwriter: Juan Luis Cordero, Néstor Ruiz Medina
Composer: Marcos Cruz
Cinematography: Jorge Roig, Néstor Ruiz Medina
Cameraman: Iñaki Ochoa
Sound: James Muñoz
Edition: Iván Gutierrez
Art: Ana Hernández
Hairstyler: Laura G. Loaisa
Makeup artist: Laura G. Loaisa
FX: Mario Lucero
Narrator:
Cast: Esther Acebo, Son Khoury, Taha El Mahroug, Abel Serbouti, Samad Madkouri
Director Bio
I´m Néstor Ruiz Medina (27 years old) director, scriptwriter and lover of audiovisual language since I was a child. That´s why I decided to devote my life to that who really represent me, to tell stories to create emotions in the spectator.
I study audiovisuals in Madrid, and when I finished I created my own film company call: 7 Cuerdas Films S.L. Working in my own audiovisual company I can develop my career, my passion.
In all these years I have been working in fiction, in my own projects of short films, videoclips, art films, commercials… As a DOP I have worked in a few short and feature films. I have produced some of the most interesting short films of college friends of the industry.
Right now I´m in the promotion of my last Short film as a director: BARAKA. And Preparing my first feature film call: Yasuni, a co-production between Spain and Ecuador.
BEHIND
BEHIND
BEHIND
Title: original / English translation- BEHIND
Year of production: 2016
Duration: 15:00
Country: SPAIN
Director: ÁNGEL GÓMEZ HERNÁNDEZ
Cast: MACARENA GÓMEZ, RUTH DÍAZ, JAVIER BOTET, LONE FLEMING
Producer: ROBERTO SANZ
Production company: ESTUDIO V, MONTREUX ENTERTAINMENT
SYNOPSIS: Arianne is a divorced mother obsessed with the idea that her ex-husband might take her baby away from her. At a birthday party, a mysterious old woman called Leonor tells Arianne that there is a strange figure following her: a terrifying looking man. Back at home with her little baby, Arianne will have to fight something a lot darker than her deepest fears. Something that will make her worst nightmares come alive.
CAST AND CREW
Arianne – Macarena Gómez
Leonor – Lone Fleming
Samuel – Javier Botet
Carol – Ruth Díaz
Samuel (voz) – Víctor Clavijo
Claudia – Carmen Sánchez
Prod. Executive – Raúl Cerezo
Dir. Photography – Pablo Rosso
Dir. Artistic – Arantxa Domingo
Soundtrack – Oscar Araujo
Assembly – Miguel Serón
Etalonaje – Juan Ventura
Sound – José Lebrón
Mix sound – Nicolás de Poulpiquet
Dir. Production – Jl Aceytuno
Costumes – Layla Khamlichi
Head of makeup FX – Antonio Naranjo
Head of makeup and hairdressing – Víctor Javier Bernardos
Producers – Arantxa Domingo Plasencia and Pedro de la Escalera.
Director Bio:
Film director, scriptwriter, stage manager, script consultant and filmmaking instructor, co-manages the film production company Estudio V, where he has developed feature films such as Deep House, Looking for Eli and Behind. Behind is currently being developed with Juan de Dios Garduño (Extinction), Tom Holland (Child’s Play) and Jorge Trinchet. He currently works as director and scriptwriter for Aliwood Producciones, where he is developing the feature film Hidden Sides. Aliwood Producciones is responsible for films such as 5 Metros Cuadrados, Justin y la espada del valor(Nominated for the Goya Award in 2014) or Un Cuento Chino (Goya Award winner in 2012).
Earned a degree in directing and scriptwriting at Centro de Estudios Ciudad de la Luz in 2012. Also earned a degree in Realización Audiovisual y Espectáculos (Audiovisual and show production) at Cesur Formación in 2009. At age 27, he has directed more than 50 projects, such as short films, music videos, short-form and long-form documentaries and TV commercials.
Has earned more than 70 international awards, and has received more than 300 nominations. His short film, Y la muerte lo seguía, received more than 130 nominations and received 20 international awards during its first year of distribution.
Ángel Gómez has worked in the field of advertising as Creative Director for four years. He has directed TV commercials for many organizations such as Ministerio de Igualdad del Gobierno de España, la Comunidad de Madrid, el Club Atlético de Madrid, Canal Plus, Mediaset con Tele5 y Cuatro, el Club de Baloncesto Estudiantes, Aena Aeropuertos, Unisa Internacional, the sports TV show Punto Pelota (national ratings leader), and for feature films such as Frank (with Michael Fasbenderg), The Collection (by the creators of the Saw series) and El volcán.
Ángel Gómez has many years of experience teaching film courses in directing, scriptwriting and stage managing at different schools and universities all over Spain. He has taught more than 300 courses during the last few years.
He is the cofounder of his own film school in Madrid; Escuela Verité. He works as a professor of Cinematography at the Universidad de Cádiz (UCA), and at UMH in Elche.
COLD STORAGE
COLD STORAGE
COLD STORAGE
THOMAS FREUNDLICH / Finlandia/ 2016/ 9’
Synopsis: Cold Storage is a short dance film that pays homage to the virtuosic physical performances and melancholy comedy of the classic silent screen. On a desolate arctic shore, a lonely fisherman discovers his prehistoric counterpart frozen in the ice, and thaws him out as his newfound soul brother.
Original title: COLD STORAGE
Crew
Director: Thomas Freundlich
Director or Photography: Thomas Freundlich
Art Direction: Aino Koski
Costume Desing: Venla Takkinen
Sound: Akseli Soini
Editor: Jukka Nykänen
Sound Design: Akseli Soini
Music: Kimmo Pohjonen
Cast
Valtteri Raekallio
Eero Vesterinen
Director Bio: Thomas Freundlich is one of the leading practitioners in Finland’s vibrantly growing independent dance film scene. Mr. Freundlich’s work ranges from dance shorts, documentary work, performance videography and 3D projects to music videos and projection design for the stage. His work has been seen at dozens of film festivals worldwide as well as broadcast TV both in Finland and internationally. From 2012 to 2014, Mr. Freundlich was the co-artistic director of Finland’s Loikka dance film festival.
CONSERVAS
CONSERVAS
CONSERVAS
Synopsis: Paula, a restless girl who wants to propose to have an open relationship to Guille, her boyfriend. But along the way, jealousy, doubts and the desire for another person will make it not so easy.
CAST:
Montse Morillo
Ricard Farre
Núria Sanmartí
Merlin Quintanas
Jessica Hernández
Anna Massó
CREW
Script & Direction: Mireia Pozo Mayà
Producer: Maria Jose García
Executive Producer: Uriel Wisnia
Direct. Photography: Alcides Forbitti
Art Direction: Laia Escuder
Editing: Cesar Valdivia / Mireia Pozo
Sound Editing: Diego Marqués
Director Bio Mireia Pozo:
She got a degree in ̈Audiovisual and Multimedia Realization ̈ at Eram School in Girona. Later, she specialized herself in Video Making with a BA in ̈ (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media ̈ at Lincoln University (U.K.) After this, she graduated from Bande À Part school of cinema in Barcelona with a master degree in filmmaking.
She has written and directed the shortfilm ̈Caracol ̈ and ̈Conservas ̈. She also works as freelance filmmaker doing commercials and corporate videos for Mediaq.tv filming.
She has shot two documentary videos: “This isLincoln” and “Ahora y Aquí”She is currently working onthe script of one fiction project about the female sexuality and one documentary project about the women pregnancy problems inTangier along with the NGO Codespa.
EJECUTOR
EJECUTOR
EJECUTOR
Bio JAVIER ARRIAGA:
DIRECTOR:
Feature:
“The first last day” Spektra Films, Manuela Pineda, Lotanez 2014 Dir. Javier Arriaga, Guillermo Llaguno. With Gurutze Beitia, Lander Otaola and Leyre Berrocal.
Short films:
“Letter to Lucio” Atalaya PC 1999. With Patxi Lazkano , Harroin Herrera and Miguel Azpiazu “I do Belong Here” Videocreation 2003. With Lucas Diez. Finalist Short Film festival on immigration “I don ́t belong here” on Canal +.
Video-Card “This is me” selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus 2004 (Berlinale Film Festival) “We Need To Talk” Videocreation 2010. With Maite Alaña and Ramon Churruca.
“One in seven” Videocreation 2011. Finalist Festival “A water minute” UNESCO- ETXEA Basque Country. “Trojan Junk” Spektra Films 2013. With Gurutze Beitia and Lander Otaola. Basque short Competition FANT XX Fantastic Film Festival of Bilbao.
“Maremoto Top” (working title) Spektra Films/Argilun 2016 (Postproduction)
Exc. Producer “Del Desenfreno al Desencanto (Un repasoinexacto a 40 años rodando anuncios a lo loco)” (Documentary) Spektra Films / Cardio. Dir: Joan Cruells/JavierArriaga
Associate Producer “Kinky Gazpacho” (In Development)4th Power Films Inc. (US)/ Kinky Gazpacho Inc. (US)/ Spektra Films (ES)
Associate Producer “Red Fjords” (Development)Eduardo Carneros (ES)/ Tornasol (ES)/ RVK (IS)
Dramaturge and Director of the play “Bus to nowhere” inside an actual bus being part of the “P6-Bilbao short theatre festival” May 2014. With Leire Berrocal and Galder Perez.
GRAFFITI
GRAFFITI
Lluís Quílez / Spain/ 2015 / 30 minutes
Synopsis: An apocalyptic world. A devastated city. A last survivor.
Artistic team
Edgar: ORIOL
Technical equipment
Director: LLUÍS QUÍLEZ
Script: JAVIER GULLÓN and LLUÍS QUÍLEZ
Producers: LLUIS QUILEZ, ESTER VELASCO and CRISTIAN GUIJARRO
Executive Producers: JEFF SKOLL, JONATHAN KING and CRISTIAN CONTI
Associated Producers: PETER H. REYNOLD and XAVIER CARDONA
Ouch. Address: DAVID CASAS
Director of photography: ISAAC VILA
Artistic director: CLARA ÁLVAREZ
Vesturium: GIOVANNA RIBES
Make-up and hairdressing: ANA M. BALSERA
Direct Sound: JORDI ROSSINYOL
Sound Design: ALBERT MANERA
Editing: J.L. ROMEU and JAUME MARTÍ
Music: ARNAU BATALLER
VFX Supervisor: LUIS TINOCO
Biofilmography director
Lluís Quílez, whose previous works in the field of short film – “EL SIGUIENTE”, “AVATAR” and “YANINDARA” – garnered wide international recognition (more than 100 awards, the double nomination for the Meliès d´Or, and pre-selection for the OSCAR® of 2007), after debuting in the feature film with “OUT OF THE DARK” (2015), returns to the short film to present “GRAFFIT” which in turn represents his first work as a producer: a romantic drama set at the end of the world, shot in the mythical and inaccessible city of Pripyat (Ukraina).
Festival Tour / Awards
GRAFFITI premiered in the official section of the 48th Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival 2015, winning Best European Short Film and Melies d’Argent. This short film is selected for the 2017 Oscars after winning in the qualifying festival of Santa Barbara in February 2016.
INSUFICIENTE
INSUFICIENTE
INSUFICIENTE
Synopsis: “Daylight enters through the window. And last night was good, but now there are leftovers in my bed”.
File
Actors: Iñaki Ardanaz, Irene Anula
Music: White Russians
Script, direction and editing: Álex Montoya
Production manager: Sofía López
Photography director: Jon D. Domínguez
Direct Sound: Arman City
Ayte. de Cámara: Jota Parro
Biofilm
Álex Montoya has a degree in Architecture and is a self-taught filmmaker. His short works add up to 170 recognitions and several hundred selections in national and international festivals. In 2009 he was selected at the Berlinale Talent Campus. His films include a Goya 2014 nomination for his short film ‘Lucas’ and a special mention at Sundance 2010 for his short film ‘Cómo conocí a tu padre’.
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LA SIERRA
LA SIERRA
LA SIERRA
Guillermo Alcalá-Santaella / Spain / 2017 / 14’59’’
Sinopsis: Gonzalo (79) and Alejandro (46) travel to a hostel 200 kms far from home. It ́s the first time they separate after so long. Gonzalo stays with her sister, Encarna (67), and Alejandro at least can enjoy some days of rest with Marita, her girlfriend. The Hills is a story that talks about the paternal relationship and about the inevitable pass of the time from what unites a father and a son.
Las Vacas de Wisconsin
Las Vacas de Wisconsin
LAS VACAS DE WISCONSIN
Sara Traba / ESPAÑA / 2016 / V.O. Gallego / 14’ 55’’
Sara Traba
She got a degree in art history at the University of Santiago de Compostela, specializing in history of cinema.
After that, she studied cinematography at Bande À Part school of cinema in Barcelona, in the department of direction and screenplay.
She has attended workshops by filmmakers like Víctor Erice. In her works she has developed direction and screenwriting, as well as full projects by herself.
LES BONES
LES BONES
LES BONES NENES
Sinopsis: The parents of Julia and Paula have always bred horses. The girls spent their childhood playing in the stable together, but adolescence is undermining their relationship. Violence breaks through adulthood destroying everything it finds. It stirs love, rage, sex and fierce as ever, it leaves a horse one-eyed
Director:Clara Roquet
Screenplay: Edu Sola
Production company: Lastor Media
Producer: Sergi Moreno, Tono Folguera
Cinematography: Gris Jordana
Edition: Juliana Montañés, Clara Roquet
Sound: Diego Casares
Art direction: Ana Pons-Formosa, Evelin Hernández
Music: Paul Tyan
Cast: Nídia Chamorro, Ona Comas, Marta Marco, Ernest Villegas, Jordi Pla
Runtime: 16 min.
Format: HD
Language: Catalan
Subtitles: English
Country: Spain
Year: 2017
Bio:
Clara Roquet is a young Catalan screenwriter and director. Her first screenplay “S.L. Familia” won the Special Jury Prize at the VIII Julio Alejandro Script SGAE. Her second script “10.000km,” co-written with director Carlos Marques-Marcet, became the winner of the Malaga Film Festival as well as the Goya for Best New Director, and won multiple international prizes at festivals like SXSW or Seattle. Roquet has just finished her latest project as a screenwriter, collaborating with director Jaime Rosales for his next film, she is also working with Daniel Burman on the adaptation of Milena Busquets’ hit novel “This Too Shall Pass.” As for the short film territory, she co-wrote “Submarine,” with Lebanese director Mounia Akl, that was selected in Cinéfondation at the Cannes Film Festival. Last year she made the leap to the direction with the short film “El Adiós”, produced by Lastor Media, was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and winner of the Golden Spike in SEMINCI and nominated to the European Academy Awards.
NORMAL
NORMAL
NORMAL
Synopsis Jorge’s casual encounter with a unknown neighbor reveals that the walls of his house are thinner than he thinks.
Chiqui Carabante
Chiqui Carabante, author of the multi-award-winning short films “Los Díaz felices” and “Bailongas”, “Carlos contra el mundo”, his first feature film, was premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival (Zabaltegui). In 2009 he made “12 + 1, a metaphysical comedy”, best film and director in the Spanish Film Festival of Málaga (Zona Zine). He has made music videos for Waner Chappel Music, Javier Corcobado… His work as a playwright continues to develop with his own company, Club Caníbal.
– Los días felices (10min)
– Bailongas (8min)
– Carlos contra el mundo (91min)
– Cuando acaba la noche (12min)
– 12+1, una comedia metafísica (90min)
– Ain’t got no feelings (4min)
– Sueño dentro de un sueño (15min)
– Normal (17min)
– Una casa en el campo (9min)
Palabras de Caramelo
Palabras de Caramelo
Synopsis: Kori, a deaf child who wants to learn to write to express the words of his best friend, the little camel Caramel, lives in a refugee camp in the Sahara desert.
“Words of Candy” is a docufiction, a deaf film, a sensory experience, which invites the viewer to feel, see and hear through the world of the deaf and to enjoy the beauty and silence of the desert. However, Kori’s world is unusual because he has always lived in Saharawi refugee camps and does not know sign language. He needs to learn to write to overcome the barriers of isolation and thus claim his right to education.br> Welcome to the silent world of Kori and his best friend the camel Caramel.
Director’s Biofilmography
Juan Antonio Moreno Amador (1982) is a director, scriptwriter and producer. He has directed, among others, “Boxing for Freedom”, a documentary recognized in numerous festivals, screened in more than 50 countries and selected for the European Film Awards in 2015, and the docufiction “Palabras de Caramelo”, nominated for the Goya Awards in 2017 and awarded nationally and internationally. His productions have been selected in more than 200 international festivals and have received more than 50 awards. The Carlos III University of Madrid awarded him the Excellence Prize in 2011 and in 2008 he received the Reina Sofia Prize for Social Communication. He has studied Documentation, Scriptwriting, Journalism and International Relations and teaches in the Master of Documentaries at UC3M and at the Lens School. In 2010 she created her production company Making DOC and is a member of the European and Spanish Film Academy.
Filmography
2016 – Words of Caramel. Docufiction. Director
2016 – A work of Truth. Fiction. Director
2015 – Boxing for Freedom. Documentary. Director
2015 – Kafana, stop it! Documentary. Director
2014 – Walls. Documentary. Producer
2010 – Mama Wata’s children. Documentary. Director
2007 – Kosovo, the last scar in the Balkans. Documentary. Director
SESGO
SESGO
SESGO
Synopsis: When leaving school Alex and Wanda decide to spend the money of the bus in the store of toys and candies. Mario is desperate and Malikwill help him. They want to rob that same store. The store clerk fears the worst, How will they react?
Casting:
Wanda – Laia Pardo
Alex – CalogeroCamprubí
Mario – Damián E Villegas
Malik – AbdiCherbou
Dependiente – ChingizAsanbek
Marc Font
Marc Font was born in Barcelona in 1991. He graduated in audiovisual realization at the University of Girona, ERAM. His first contacts with the cinema began when he was twelve, with his parents VHS handycam, he records his adventures with his friends and then they watched the tapes in a garage.
During his studies he collaborated with many cinematographic productions, most of the time on a camera team or as illuminator. Later worked as assistant director.
During those years Marc discovered the documentary as his natural terrain and realized the documentary “Dyarama, Le teatredes etoiles” (2017) in Senegal.
“Sesgo, Candies and Prejudices”(2017) is the first short film production written and directed by Marc Font. The audiovisual piece complements his university study about the effect of script changes, the spectator perceptions and the characters creation.
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Óscar Burgos / 2016 / 11’12’’ / 5.1 / Drama
Synopsis:
In a periphery neighborhoodv from Barcelona lives Salva. He looks after his grandfather who suffers alzheimer and having a distant relationship with his father, he tries to evade himself driving and looking the rhythm of the city.
Cast
Carlos Rodríguez
Pep Muñoz
Pere Tarrés
Crew
Script & Direction: Óscar Burgos
Producer: Maria Jose García
Executive Producer: Uriel Wisnia
Direct. Photography: Marcos Plana
Editing: Tomás López
Sound: Diego Marqués
Music: Matías Lizana
