Marta Hernaiz Pidal and her producer Rosa Galguera Ortega participated in the latest Torino Meeting Event wither their new film in development, AL FONDO A LA DERECHA, and won several Production Prizes at their award ceremony- CONGRATULATIONS and we cannot wait to see the film go into production soon!
This is what they were granted:
EWA Network Female Voices Award, the Sub-ti Award, the Sub-ti Access Award and the The GREEN FILMING AWARD.
Congratulations are in order to our Patrick Marshall for receiving funding to develop his new documentary. We look forward to seeing it develop and shimmer on our screens some day soon!
Statement by LEF:
LEF Announces $47,500 in Early Development and Pre-Production Funding
The LEF Moving Image Fund invests in films that demonstrate excellence in technique,
strong storytelling ability, and originality of artistic vision and voice. The most recent
round of awards to New England-based documentary filmmakers includes five grants of
$2,500 to projects at the Early Development stage, and seven grants of $5,000 to
projects at the Pre-production stage.
About the film (in development):
Untitled County Fair Movie
Directed and Produced by Patrick Marshall (MA)
"A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt
away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for
the urban stranger to understand, is that the two
statements in that sentence are connected by an and and
not by a but." -- John Berger
Untitled County Fair Movie is a documentary that will
show the relationship between a pig and the child (8 - 12
years old) that is raising the pig to show it at the county
fair. The movie will start around the birth of the pig and
follow the relationship between the child and the pig for
the 5-7 months until they show the pig at the fair
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.
Bianca Lucas presented a screening of her work in New Orleans on Sunday 31 March 2019. This was a chance to catch up with her oldest, newest and prospective work and, within that context, talk about ghosts with an attending Cajun healer.
Aleksnadra’s long-form artist’s moving image work, Baba Vanga, screened as a multi-channel installation at gallery of Bandits-Mages in Bourges, France in September 2018. This special event projection was the inauguration of her artist residency for her next film project - supported by EMAP#EMARE European Media and Art Program founded by European Commission. The residency commenced on 1st October 2018 and will culminate in a new moving image work. Stay tuned!
http://www.bandits-mages.com/blog/2018/06/25/emapemare-the-sirens-dream-par-aleksandra-niemczyk-en-residence-a-bandits-mages/
Anton Petersen has bee selected to receive fund from the Faroe Islands National Film Fund for his new feature project, and will be filming this upcoming fall in the Faroes.