Kaori Oda's magical film CENOTE, set in Mexico and also co-produced by our Marta Hernaiz-Pidal (along with Bistrik7 collaborator and friend Jorge Bolado), is now playing on MUBI for a limited time as part of their Rotterdam Film Festival selection. If you have yet to see it now is your chance!
WATCH HERE: https://mubi.com/films/cenote
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
This pas weekend in Dhaka, a film.factory / Bistrik7 sharing session happened as part of 15th International Short & Independent Film Festival Dhaka.
Our Bistrik7 colleague Ghazi Alqudcry arrived in Dhaka, Bangladesh to represent Bistrik7 and screen short films made by several of us as part of the 15th International Short & Independent Film Festival. He also shared his experience in film.factory
The program was curated by Aleksandra Niemczyk and Ghazi Alqudcry of Bistrik7.
This festival was organized by Bangladesh Short Film Forum. In Rasheed Chowdry’s opening speech yesterday, he talks about connecting what is disconnected within this globalized world in form of Free Cinema and Free Expression.
Stefan Malešević has been busy with two films - his upcoming debut feature film, MAMONGA, was presented at the Karlovy Vary Works in Progress:
http://www.kviff.com/en/film-professionals/book-of-projects/works-in-progress/2018
And his documentary, GORA, screened at 24. Film Festival della Lessinia, a festival dedicated to mountain films: https://www.ffdl.it/en/film/scheda/1142/gora
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.
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