Congratulations to Emma Rozanski for receiving Enterprise funding from Screen Australia for her second feature film in development, Colombian drama El VAQUERO (The Cowboy), to participate in the Torino Film Lab’s NEXT Script Development workshops.
https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/media-centre/news/2021/03-31-over-2-million-enterprise-funding
Fernando Nogari directed a music video that has gone viral - ‘Baila Conmigo’ - for Selena Gomez & Rauw Alejandro, set in Redonda, Ceara, Brazil - it’s very stylish - as all of Nogari’s works are - he’s a stylish dude!
Watch the official video here: https://youtu.be/h5WN3pkxPF0
Starring: Kibba and Ariane Aparecida Directed by Nogari @fernando.nogari Produced by Iconoclast
Pilar Palomero recently participated in Berlinale Talents Script Station with her new feature screenplay in development- La Maternal - Drama, Spain, 100 min
https://www.berlinale-talents.de/bt/talent/pilar-palomero/profile
Shot during the Covid-19 lockdown in Chicago in 2020, with 3 flatmates being the only cast and crew - our Gonzalo Escobar Mora and Emma Rozanski among them - ‘Enthusiasts’ is an interesting examination of ‘making plans’ amidst uncertainty - reflected through the eyes of two artists who are coping with the added uncertainty of making art and sustaining themselves financially into the future, while living in an ultra-consumer-capitalist world. Can you ‘buy’ your way out of the ‘system’?
Film listing: https://cinemaunbound.org/events/enthusiasts/
Synopsis: Uncertainty transpires as a couple navigates their future plans.
Directed by Gonzalo Escobar Mora
United States | 2020
Hybrid, Drama
Screening online Fri, March 5 – Sun, March 14
This short film screens as part of Shorts Block 1
Festival Website: https://nwfilm.org/festivals/44th-portland-international-film-festival/
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
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 )
Aleksandra Niemczyk’s new short film "Polka-Dot" is premiering now at festival RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES MONDE and streaming online from today until 6th of December. In the section: "Cinema-Therapy". Cinematography and co-production by our Marta Hernaiz Pidal and Graeme Cole
Starring Tina Keserovic and Thomas Steyaert
Watch here.
An impressionistic emotional struggle between a girl with a prefabricated heart and a mysterious puppet-master. Inspired by the chapter "The Girl with the Pre-Fabricated Heart" from the surrealist film "Dreams That Money Can Buy" (1947) by avant-gardist and dada artist Hans Richter.
Emma Rozanski and Gonzalo Escobar Mora have been selected to participate in the Torino Film Lab NEXT script development workshops in Sep/Oct with Colombian-set Spanish-language feature film EL VAQUERO.
More information about the workshops and a list of the selected projects can be found here: http://www.torinofilmlab.it/training/tfl-extended-2/tfl-next/tfl-next/35-tfl-next-film-development
Torino Film Lab: http://www.torinofilmlab.it/
Congratulations Pilar and Team on their festival prize for Las Niñas!
Pilar Palomero | 2020 | España
PRODUCCIÓNInicia Films, Bteam Pictures, Las Niñas Majicas A.I.E
DURACIÓN100 minutos
GUIONPilar Palomero
FOTOGRAFÍADaniela Cajías
MÚSICACarlos Naya
Sofi Escudé
Andrea Fandos, Natalia de Molina, Zoe Arnao, Julia Sierra, Francesca Piñón
Bteam Pictures
Film Factory
info@iniciafilms.com
Celia, una niña de once años, estudia en un colegio de monjas en Zaragoza y vive con su madre. Brisa, una nueva compañera, recién llegada de Barcelona, la empuja hacia una nueva etapa en su vida: la adolescencia. En este viaje, en la España de la Expo y de las Olimpiadas del año 92, Celia descubre que la vida está hecha de muchas verdades y algunas mentiras.
ハンガリーの巨匠、タル・ベーラ監督が設立したボスニアの映画学校で学び、卒業制作の前作『鉱 ARAGANE』(15)で高い評価を得た小田香監督の最新ドキュメンタリー映画『セノーテ』が、9月19日（土）より新宿 K’s cinema、10月31日（土）よりシネ・ヌーヴォ、今秋出町座、元町映画館他全国順次公開される。 メキシコ、ユカタン半島北部に点在する、セノーテと呼ばれる洞窟内の泉の中、古代マヤ族の文化を継承している村の姿をそれぞれ全く違う質感で見せ、小田監督らしい音へのこだわりも随所に垣間見える。物語を紡ぐのではなく、記憶の断片を集めたような、観る人によって違う印象を覚えるであろう映像詩。泉の水面でしぶきが弾ける様子や、光が届かないような泉の深い場所で大型魚が悠々と泳いでいく姿など、小田監督だからこそ撮れるような感動を呼ぶ映像の数々を浴びるような音とともにぜひ体感してほしい。 見事第一回大島渚賞（ぴあフィルムフェスティバル主催）に輝いた本作の小田香監督にお話を伺った。
https://cinemagical.themedia.jp/posts/9836970/?fbclid=IwAR1cEQvoe3eDHXwNhPcRgTkuPGQW14HYZc-p7xVrVT-sGnGKEZXUhFm7Zto
Watch the new trailer for Pilar Palomero's debut feature film, Las niñas, here.
RTVE.es estrena el tráiler de Las niñas, la ópera prima de la cineasta Pilar Palomero: una historia de muchas de las mujeres de hoy, dibujada a través de la educación que recibieron a principios de los 90 en España. Protagonizada por Andrea Fandos y Natalia de Molina.
Las niñas premiered in the 2020 Berlinale.
Ágora de la Ciudad, an initiative in collaboration with Ex Convento Betlehemita Centro Cultural in Vera Cruz, Mexico, has been creating an exciting and diverse online screening series, complete with filmmaker interviews, throughout this summer. Many Bistrik7 Films have screened thus far (curated by Gustavo Vega) and there are many more to come throughout the rest of 2020! Other esteemed BIstrik7 colleagues from Film.Factory Sarajevo have also screened.
Keep up to date with the programme here: https://www.facebook.com/AgoraXalapa/
and via @AgoraXalapa
Next up is Gonzalo Escobar Mora’s 2019 Colombian short film, ‘Economia Social’, screening on Friday 14th August, 2020 (details here)
‘Cenote’ in JAPAN CUTS 2020!
We will be showing "and" in the experimental spotlight department of Japan Cuts 2020 Online Film Festival this year. We will also participate in panel discussions to talk to all the directors who are participating in the documentary department.
https://japancuts.japansociety.org/film/new-approaches-to-documentary-from-japan/
Fresh from her International Premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Kaori Oda interview with Kaori Oda on her new film Cenote via MUBI Notebook
Read the full interview HERE:
https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/toward-a-common-tenderness-an-interview-with-kaori-oda
via CineEuropa:
BERLINALE 2020: With sensitivity, Pilar Palomero’s first work recreates the repressive atmosphere which far too many Spanish girls grew up within towards the end of the 20th century
For those more familiar with showy and ultra-fast commercial cinema, Schoolgirls might prove a disappointing watch: the action is minimal, depicting the characters’ day-to-day activities, such as doing homework, painting their lips for the first time or playing during breaktime. But there’s a subtext behind the description of this routine; a background and an intent which reveal a contradictory country which has continued to teach its future women to accept acquired machismo, sexual repression and all-important conformism.
Celia, the film’s protagonist (the magnificent acting revelation Andrea Fandos), is the daughter of a single mother (played by Natalia de Molina). She’s growing up and at the very moment her body begins to change, doubts of every kind start to alter her thinking. She’s no longer comfortable with the lies and silences her mother metes out every time she asks questions, about her origins, for example. The times are changing too, even if her environment – especially the convent school where she’s studying – seems to be doing everything possible to stave off the inevitable. But a new friend will breathe fresh air into her personal prison.
Schoolgirls opens with a magnificent scene, and its closing shot contrasts perfectly with the first. Between the two, we accompany this young woman in her insomnia, doubts and anxieties, with the camera ever glued to Celia’s gaze. And it won’t be hard for those who grew up in the eighties and nineties to recognise themselves or their friends, sisters or neighbours in Schoolgirls’ various scenes.
As we watch the film, titles such as Carlos Saura’s legendary film Cría cuervos or the recent Ojos Negros [+], by the duo Marta Lallana and Ivet Castelo, spring to mind; works which display the same freshness, talent and authenticity as Palomero’s offering. But above all, this director’s first full-length film underscores the crucial point that, much like the course taken by her central character, it has only been through individual rebellion that a generation of women have been able to fully fulfil themselves, and that they are now in a position to question that time which is thankfully in the past.
Schoolgirls is an Inicia Films, BTeam Prods and Las Niñas Majicas A.I.E. production. International sales are entrusted to Film Factory Entertainment.
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
Screening at the radical Revolutions Per Minute Festval in Boston, USA, Emma Rozanski’s 2-channel video installation ‘A New Kind of Ray’ will screen in program 1 - Codes and Archives - on Jan 31st 2020:
http://revolutionsperminutefest.org/
Next week in the Bright Futures main program, our Kaori Oda’s Mexican documentary premieres at Rotterdam. The film was also co-produced by our Marta Hernaiz-Pidal.
Synopsis:
In Northern Yucatan, Mexico, natural sinkholes called 'cenotes' constituted the sole water source for Mayans not living near a river or lake. Some cenotes were used for ritual sacrifices, and the Mayans believed that these holy springs connected this world to the afterlife.
The past and present of those living around the cenotes coalesce in this mysterious place. Long-lost memories echo in hallucinatory turquoise underwater footage, an entrancing game of light and dark. Swimming in these sinkholes, director Oda Kaori encounters intriguing shapes and beams of light, the water heaves, drops fall like razor blades.
Oda, who studied under Béla Tarr in Sarajevo, previously made Aragane, which was shot in a Bosnian coal mine. For Cenote, she used Super-8 film and a bubbling water soundscape. A captivating form for her impressions of a place where, as a ghostly voiceover explains, nothing is forgotten.
Original title Ts'onot
Filmmaker Oda Kaori
Premiere International premiere
Country Japan, Mexico
Year2019
Length 75’
LanguageSpanish
Producer Oda Kaori, Echigoya Takashi, Jorge Bolado, Marta Hernaiz
Production Company FieldRain, Aichi Arts Center, cinevendaval
Sales Article Films
Writer
Oda Kaori
Cinematography Oda Kaori
Editor Oda Kaori, Takeshi Hata
Production Design Marta Hernaiz
Sound Design Oda Kaori
Cast
voices of: Araceli del Rosario Chulim Tun, Juan de la Rosa Mibmay
Website https://fieldrain.net
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<セノーテプロジェクト>
メキシコユカタン半島北部に点在するセノーテと呼ばれる泉。
樹の根が這う水中洞窟、その縦穴の上から太陽の光が水の中に降る。
生贄として捧げられた者たち。
脈絡のない断片的な記憶の連なり。
それ自体がもつ直感と予見性。
現地リサーチ(撮影)からインスピレーションをえて制作される映画、映像インスタレーション、ペインティングを横断するプロジェクト
-第1回目リサーチ撮影 2017年5月〜6月 実施
-第2回目リサーチ撮影 2018年5月〜6月 実施
-第3回目リサーチ撮影 2018年11月 実施
-2019年1月~3月 長編映画作品『セノーテ』編集
-2019年4月 長編映画作品『セノーテ』完成
2019年6月16日 愛知県美術館・愛知芸術文化センターにて『セノーテ』初上映
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.
第24回アートフィルム・フェスティバル(Art Film Fes. vol.24)が11/29-12/8まで開催されます@愛知芸術文化センター。
拙作『セノーテ』も上映していただきますが、「映像人類学をめぐる旅」と題され吉田喜重、ルーシュ、エイゼンシュテイン、メカス、ヴィオラ、大島渚、ナム・ジュン・パイク(みなさん敬称略)などのラインナップ。すべて無料です。
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The 24th Art Film Festival (art film fes. Vol. 24) will be held until 11/29-12/8 @愛知芸術文化センター.
" and " will also be screened, but it is said to be " a journey over the video of humanity," yoshida yoshida, Lou, Stingray, Mechatronics, Viola, oshima oshima, Nam Jun Pike ( It's a lineup for all of you. It's all free.)
If you have a relationship, please take care of it.
https://www.outermosterm.com/aichi-pref-aac-art-film-festival2019/
https://www-art.aac.pref.aichi.jp/exhibition/item01/2019AFFleaflet.pdf