Our omnibus film ‘Letters From the Ends of the World” is screening in Mexico in May as part of A vida não é um filme: Vol. 2 - and our Marta Hernaiz Pidal and Gustavo Vega will be there for discussions.
This interesting collection of work was curated by film.factory colleague Chrystyan Romero - thanks so much for including us!
Congratulations to Marta Hernaiz Pidal for being selected to attend the Cannes Cinefondation Residence in Paris from March 2021, to work on her new feature screenplay. We look forward to seeing how the film develops during her time there!
https://www.cinefondation.com/en/residence/
For its 42nd session #LaRésidence will welcome from March 1st to July 15th directors:
- Lucía Aleñar Iglesias (Spain )
- Behzad Azadi (Iran )
- Marta Hernaiz Pidal (Mexico / Spain )
- Inbar Horesch (Israel )
- Sameh Morsy (Egypt )
- David Vicente (Portugal )
Next Sat the 1st of February at 8pm, Gonzalo Escobar Mora’s latest film, ‘Social Economies’, plays at the famous Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago as part of the annual Panorama LatinX Festival.
Gonzalo will be there in person for the Q&A along with the other directors.
Synopsis:
2019, Gonzalo Escobar Mora, Colombia 22:00 min.
A bag of used clothes. Three women. Their longings, uncertainties, fictions, and realities.
Filmmakers in person!
The Gene Siskel Film Center’s Panorama Latinx programming and outreach initiative is pleased to announce the second edition of our short film showcase. This year’s edition introduces the works of Chicago-based filmmakers representing Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua, Peru, Haiti, Puerto Rico and Mexico. Addressing the complexities of our time through different genres and methods of storytelling, the films guide us over the nuances of identity and collectivity in the 21st century. From ecology to social dynamics, the directors present a manifold of practices that point to the relevance of imagination in today’s world. In Spanish and English with English subtitles. DCP and ProRes digital.
Marcela Fuentes: Associate Professor at Northwestern University and author of Performance Constellations: Networks of Protest and Activism in Latin America
Alan Medina: Co-founder of filmfront and Inga.
Marina Resende: artist, researcher and critic for Hyperallergic and THE SEEN, among others.
Directors Carol Bedoy, Sol y Chaski, Sofia Alfaro, Gonzalo Escobar Mora, Nat Pyper, Milton Guillén, Gustavo Jardim are scheduled to appear for audience discussion
Gonzalo Escobar Mora has been invited to attend The 65th 2019 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, to be held JUNE 15 – 21 at the COLGATE UNIVERSITY, HAMILTON, NY
He will be representing Bistrik7 there, along with several curatorial and film projects that he is developing with his production company and in collaboration with Bistrik7.
ABOUT THE FLAHERTY
The Flaherty is a nonprofit media arts institution recognized as a leader in its support of the documentary and other independent film and video.
Festival Statement: We are artists in action. We combat demagogues who oppose our notions of freedom and justice. In this era of uncertainty, we rebel against the lies and navigate what to accept or reject, what to learn or unlearn. We find solidarity in small local communities, and together we act creatively, speak out, and make works that challenge the status quo.
At the 65th Robert Flaherty Seminar we unite as an international community of artists—thinkers, makers, and activists—all in action. We discover and experience moments of beauty, truth, anarchy and conflict through film, as well as painting, performance, photography, text, and sound. We encounter the craftsmanship of those who are not afraid to battle deep, ethical questions, and whose actions split form and convention wide open. With careful attention to the process of making—the construction of sensuous textures and mythical imagery, the patterning of resistance and repetition, and the uses of performative interventions and idiosyncratic storytelling—we learn how to create powerful moments of aesthetic and political liberation.
While inhabiting the everyday practice of making, doing, living, suffering and protesting as artists today, we take inspiration from the poetics of the human condition, and step into a new terrain. In discourse, thought, and experience, we come together as a community in action to bear witness and shape our future.
Aleksandra Niemczyk's debut feature film, Baba Vanga, has been included in Pedro Tavares' 100 films of 2018 worth watching list. Congratulations!
Aleksandra Niemczyk’s debut feature film BABA VANGA is now available to watch on demand via Tao Films. You can also find two of her shorter-length films on there - CENTAUR and INVESTIGATIONS OF A DOG.
Gonzalo Escobar's short film, Pool Version, is now available on the Tao-films platform. Other works from Bistrik7 filmmakers are also available at this platform.
Go forth, watch, and thank you for the support!!
xo Bistrik7
Bistrik 7 NEWS – December 2017
An omnibus of festive video gifts:
This is a link to a small video collection of short films made as festive season gifts to each other and to our extended film.factory family. Our collective, Bistrik7, is our way to connect, to keep in touch with each other, to share and collaborate on projects and plans big and small for years to come. This year we wanted to make some videos for each other - our way of saying ‘hi’ and keeping the love and spirit of Bistrik7 alive.
Read MoreEmma Rozanski's debut feature, PAPAGAJKA, has its South American Premiere October 21st at del 33 Festival de Cine de Bogotá , where it screens in Competition.
Programme: http://www.bogocine.com/index.php/programacion
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/153900729
DOBRO, Marta Hernaiz-Pidal's short film will be shown on the 24 and 25 of October at Morelia Film Festival, one of the most recognized film festivals in México.
Marta will also present a preview 'work in progress' of her debut feature film, 'The Chaotic life of Nada', as part of Impulso Morelia, which aims to find completion funds for projects in post-production: http://moreliafilmfest.com/resultados-de-impulso-morelia-2…/
A few of us @Bistrik7 have film premieres at the upcoming Sarajevo Film Festival (@22ndSFF - Aug 12th-20th).
Tickets and screening details are now online so here's a guide to seek out and see our films there.
Many of us will be attending so come and say hi if you go see our films...goes without saying we thoroughly recommend them all!
PAPAGAJKA (The Parrot) / 82mins / dir: Emma Rozanski / Drama-Thriller / English and Bosnian language / 2016
BABA VANGA / 77mins / dir: Aleksandra Niemczyk / Drama / English and French language / 2016
POOL VERSION / 21mins dir: Gonzalo Escobar Mora / Drama / Bosnian language / 2016
GORA / 76mins / dir: Stefan Malesevic/ Documentary / 2016
DOBRO / 10mins / dir: Marta Hernaiz Pidal / Bosnian language / 2016
NOĆ / 10mins / dir: Pilar Palomero / 2016
We have now launched Bistrik7 to the public and are busy making new work and planning exciting collaborations - so stay tuned for news here or via our twitter @Bistrik7