CONTE TRENCAT
Short Film / 18 min / Red Epic / Color / Spain / 2019
Written & Directed by Miguel Gago
Produced by Ringo Media & Timber Films
Synopsis
While fleeing Spain during the Spanish Civil War, 10-year-old Lucy falls under the spell of a mysterious forest that will guide and protect her from an encounter between the Spanish and a group of rebels led by an enigmatic woman.
Festivals
currently being submitted
TROTE
Feature Film / 80 min / Alexa / Color / Spain / 2017
Written & Directed by Xacio Baño
Produced by Frida Films
Synopsis
Carme, a reserved, solitary girl, difficult to get on with, lives in a mountain village in the interior of Galicia with her father, Ramón, with whom she hardly communicates, and her ill mother. Carme works in a bakery. She dreams that one day she will escape from this stuffy, oppressive atmosphere. However, she has always been held back by circumstances. She wants to trot. To run away. Now, just a few days ago, her job application for a hotel in a nearby town was accepted. Trot takes place on the weekend of the Rapa das Bestas festival, the ancestral struggle between man and horse. The festival preparations begin around the village. Luis, Carme’s older brother, who works in Madrid, and his wife, María, who is four months pregnant, are staying at the house for the holiday. Trot is the struggle between man and horse, between reason and instinct.
Project selected for KUSMIRA BERRIAK, a programme designed to support audiovisual projects that show innovation and experimentation in both cinematic language and the production medium. It is the result of a partnership between Tabakalera International Centre of Contemporary Culture, Donostia Zinemaldia / San Sebastián Film Festival, the DSS2016 Capital of Culture project, Donostia Kultura and the Basque Film Archive Foundation.
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Festivals
Locarno Film Festival - Cineasti del Presente, 2018
San Sebastián Film Festival - Zabaltegi Tabakalera, 2018
Tofifest International Film Festival, 2018
Viennale - Viena International Film Festival, 2018
Kolkata International Film Festival, 2018
L'Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival, 2018
Festival Márgenes, 2018
Cineuropa, 2018
ESTIU 1993
Feature Film / 97 min / Alexa / Color / Spain / 2016
Editing Assistant
Written & Directed by Carla Simón
Produced by Inicia Films
Synopsis
After her mother's death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle's family to live with them in the countryside. But Frida finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new life.
Festivals
3 Goya Awards: Best New Director, Best Supporting Actress & Best Supporting Actor
5 Gaudí Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress & Best Editing
4 Feroz Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor
1 Fénix Awards: Best Screenplay
Mejor ópera prima en la 67 Berlinale.
Premio especial del jurado Generation Kplus en la 67 Berlinale.
Biznaga de Oro a la mejor película española en el 20 Festival de Málaga Cine Español
Premio Feroz Puerta Oscura en el 20 Festival de Málaga Cine Español
Premio a Mejor dirección en el 19 BAFICI
Premio del público en el 19 BAFICI
Instambul Int. Film Festival - Special Prize of the Jury
London Film Festival BFI - Honourable Mention
Odessa Int. Film Festival - Golden Duke
Mumbai Film Festival - Golden Gateway
Hamptons Int. Film Festival
Palm Springs Int. Film Festival
Jerusalem Film Festival
CPH PIX
Tromso Int. Film Festival
SEEDS
Short Film / 13 min / Alexa / Color / UK / 2016
Written & Directed by Guillaume Fradin
Produced by Daniela Barulli
Synopsis
Scientists are nowadays explorers. Whether they launch rockets in space, built submarines to explore the deepest oceans and work to understand how our brains and bodies work, they strive to break barriers. Seeds is about one type of those scientists, the astronauts, whose curiosity to visit other planets leads them to make enormous sacrifices.
Festivals
London Short Film Festival 2017
Aesthetica Film Festival 2017
European Feedback Short Film Festival 2017 - Best Cinematography
TweetFest London 2017 - Best Cinematography
Philip K. Dick Festival Europe 2016 & New York 2017
Thriller/Suspense Film Festival 2017
Artemis Women in Action Film Festival 2017
SORELLE POVERE DI SANTA CHIARA
Short Film / 12 min / 16mm / B&W / UK / 2016
Written & Directed by Nina Danino
Produced by Daniela Barulli
Synopsis
Filmed in the enclosed Monastero di Santa Chiara, San Marino. The nuns spend the morning in the ‘laboratorio’ sewing, mending, ironing, in the kitchen preparing the midday meal and in the garden, tending to the animals and cultivation.
Festivals
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Venice Film Week
BIRD SONGS FROM THE AMAZONIA
Short Film / 25 min / Red Epic / Color / UK & Venezuela / 2016
Written & Directed by Harry Bracho
Produced by Georgette Bulgaria & Jacqueline Mora
Synopsis
A biologist from London goes to Amazonia to study the local flora. There she meets three other scientists from different nationalities and backgrounds. They advise her not to go near the Autana, a mountain regarded sacred by the local tribes, without a guide. She will do exactly the contrary.
Festivals
Aesthetica Short Film Festival
Festival de Cine de Barquisimeto - Best Sound
Festival de Cine Venezolano
Festival de Cine entre Largos y Cortos de Oriente
International Natural Film Festival Gödöllö
BRISTLES
Short Film / 15 min / Alexa / Color / UK / 2015
Written & Directed by Danielle Arden
Produced by Noor Lawson
Synopsis
Tainted goods and frayed toothbrushes - Lilly and Lisle have just experienced an awkward first night together and now face the terrifying prospect of spending the rest of their lives together. With lewd suggestions from the locals, their honeymoon is shaping up to be a complete disaster. Can they confront their own niggling insecurities, and, even worse, each other's?
NO STRINGS
Short Film / 23 min / Alexa / Color / UK / 2015
Written & Directed by Eoin Maher
Produced by Liam Creighton
Synopsis
Bryn and Sean have to spend the night together after Sean is stranded. They've had sex but know nothing about each other. Bryn is showing Sean how to roll a joint and they start talking about where they're originally from.
Festivals
GAZE Dublin LGBT Film Festival, FLICKERS: Rhode Island Int Film Festival - Filmmaker of the future, Iris Prize Film Festival, Reeling Chicago, LGBT Film Festival, Homochrom Film Festival, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, KinoFilm Festival, Queer, Hippo Film Festival of Houston, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Caminhos Film Festival, BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival, British Shorts Film Festival Berlin, InsideOut Toronto LGBT Film Festival, Frameline40 San Francisco Int. LGBTQ Film Festival
LAS PEQUEÑAS COSAS
Short Film / 27 min / Red / Color / Spain / 2014
Written & Directed by Carla Simón
Produced by Inicia Films
Synopsis
"Las pequeñas cosas" (Those little things) is the story of a complex and interdependent relationship between a mother and a daughter who struggle to live together. Ana (40 years old) suffers achondroplasia - dwarfism - and her mother (70 years old), a beautiful, elegant and sophisticated woman, has never accepted her daughter’s condition. The muted taboos between the two women resonate more than ever as they prepare the house for the visit of Juan – the son and brother who lives away from home - and his new girlfriend.
Festivals
ALCINE Film Festival
Premiere Plans Angers Film Festival
FilmMadrid Int. Film Festival
World Film Festival Montreal
Beijing Film Academy's Int. Student & Video Festival
Filmets Badalona Film Festival - Best Film
RICE & RYZI
Short Film / 7 min / BlackMagic / Color / UK / 2014
Made for the LONDON 48 HOUR FILM CHALLENGE
Nominated for 8 awards, winning 4 of them: Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Costume Design & Audience Choice.
Written & Directed by Jeroen Bogaert
Produced by Noor Lawson
DILIP'S CASTLE
Short Film / 18 min / BlackMagic / Color / UK / 2014
Written & Directed by Manos Ioannou
Produced by Jennifer Eriksson & Andrea Toca
Synopsis
Dilip’s Castle is the story of Sidney. He leaves his home after he finds out that his wife had an affair. Already on a destructive path, treading through the night, he discovers that what lurks in the dark is far worse than infidelity.
Festivals
London Short Film Festival
East End Film Festival
Short Waves Film Festival
Lichtspilklub Short Film Festival (British Shorts)
THIEVES
Short Film / 21 min / SonyF55 / Color / UK / 2014
Written & Directed by Sandra Tabet
Produced by The London Film School.
Synopsis
Romain is looking for the ocean. He is running in vain, away from suffering he cannot face alone. Yet he is unable to find neither the shore nor respite. Thieves in the Night is the story of his encounter with Vivian, a woman whose sadness is defined by her strength. In this night of unworldly strangeness, it is through one another that they manage to obtain a desired restfulness.
LIPSTICK
Short Film / 9 min / 35mm / B&W / UK / 2012
Written & Directed by Carla Simón
Produced by The London Film School
Synopsis
Siblings Sophia and Oliver enjoy playing at their grandma’s place whilst she sleeps. However their games get interrupted as Oliver discovers that grandma might not be merely asleep after all. « Lipstick » is the story of two children encountering death for the first time and dealing with it on their own.
Festivals
First Frame Film Festival, Ciné Klap Film Festival, Rob Knox Film Festival - Best Actor & Best Actress, Fuse Film Festival - Best Film & Best Student Short Film, International Student FilmFest - Best Fiction, Kino Exposed Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes del Uruguay - Best Fiction, Rouen Short Film Festival, The Birdies Film Festival, Bangkok International Student Film Festival, One Voice Film Festival - Best Drama & Best Actor, Two Riversides Film Festival, Naoussa International Film Festival, Reggio Film Festival, This is England Film Festival, Festival de cine Estudiantil de México, Cornwall Film Festival, Aestethica Film Festival, Up-and-coming Film Festival, Certamen de Cortometrajes de Soria