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
Shanghai International Film Festival 2020, Semana de Medina del Campo 2020, Festival de Cans 2020 - Best Sound Track, Festival de cine de Arnedo, Octubre Corto 2020, Mecal 2020, Festival Internacional de cine de Sax 2020, Festival Internacional de Cinema de Cerdanya 2020, Festival de Ourense 2020.
IN MEMORIAM
Feature Documentary | 75 min | HD | Color | Spain | 2018
Written & Directed by Marcos M. Merino | Produced by Marcos M. Merino & Marta F. Crestelo
Synopsis
La aparición repentina de cientos de miles de fotografías permiten conocer los rostros que habitaron un valle minero durante 5 décadas. Mientras tanto, un grupo de niñas, tres trabajadores retirados y un experto arqueólogo trabajan de forma aislada en la preservación de la memoria de sus antepasados. Todos ellos saben que la indiferencia va a ser el mayor de los reconocimientos públicos que van a obtener con su esfuerzo ¿Por qué hacerlo? ¿Qué recompensa obtienen? ¿Para qué sirve cuidar la memoria?
Festivals
2018 Sevilla European Film Festival - Special Mention @ New Waves Non-Fiction Section, 2018 Gijón International Film Festival, 2018 Play-Doc International Documentary Festival, 37° Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay
TROTE
Feature Film | 80 min | Alexa | Color | Spain | 2017
Written & Directed by Xacio Baño | Produced by Frida Films & M-Films
Synopsis
Carme, a reserved 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. She wants to trot. To run away. However, she has always been held back by circumstances. Now, just a few days ago, her job application for a hotel in a nearby town has been accepted.
Festivals
Locarno Film Festival - Cineasti del Presente 2018, San Sebastián Film Festival - Zabaltegi Tabakalera 2018, Viennale - Viena International Film Festival 2018, Kolkata International Film Festival 2018, L'Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival 2018, Festival Márgenes 2018, Cineuropa 2018
PALMIRA
Medium Length Documentary| 32 min | HD | Color | Spain | 2017
Written & Directed by Diana Gonçalves | Produced by Diana Gonçalves & Alvaro Gago
Synopsis
Life passes by slowly, repetitively. A tired but resistant body. On the other side of the camera, an attempt to find that fleeting moment that reveals to us something more from life. From observation to construction with the character itself. Palmira is the portrait of several encounters as well as the testimony of the process and evolution of that portrait.
Festivals
Curtocircuito International Film Festival, MICE Mostra Internacional de Cinema Etnográfico de Santiago de Compostela, Filmes do Homem - Melgaço Int. Documentary Film Festival, Festival Internacional de cine de Gibara, La Habana
ESTIU 1993 (Editing Assistant)
Feature Film | 97 min | Alexa | Color | Spain | 2016
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, Best Debut Film & Special Jury Prize Generation Kplus en la 67 Berlinale, Biznaga de Oro 20 Festival de Málaga Cine Español, Premio a Mejor dirección & Premio del público 19 BAFICI, Instambul Int. Film Festival - Special Prize of the Jury, London Film Festival BFI - Honourable Mention
SEEDS
Short Film | 13 min | Alexa | Color | UK | 2016
Written & Directed by Guillaume Fradin | Produced by Noor Lawson
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
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 2016, Venice Film Week 2016
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 2017, Festival de Cine de Barquisimeto 2017 - Best Sound, Festival de Cine Venezolano 2017, Festival de Cine entre Largos y Cortos de Oriente 2017, International Natural Film Festival Gödöllö 2017
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, BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival, British Shorts Film Festival Berlin, InsideOut Toronto LGBT Film Festival, Frameline40 San Francisco Int. LGBTQ Film Festival
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?
LAS PEQUEÑAS COSAS
Short Film | 27 min | Red | Color | Spain | 2014
Written & Directed by Carla Simón | Produced by Inicia Films
Synopsis
Ana (40) suffers achondroplasia, and her mother (70), an 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
ELEVEN (SPAIN)
Short Documentary | 23 min | CanonC300 | Color | Spain&UK | 2014
Written & Directed by Miguel Gago
Produced by Mihalis Monemvasiotis
Synopsis
"Eleven” is the story of eleven, eleven-year-old children from eleven different countries as they prepare together for the game of their lives.
RICE&RIZY
Short Film | 14 min | BlackMagic | Color | UK | 2014
Written & Directed by Jeroen Bogaert
Produced by Noor Lawson
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.
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, Kino Exposed Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes del Uruguay - Best Fiction, Rouen Short Film Festival, The Birdies Film Festival, One Voice Film Festival - Best Drama & Best Actor, Naoussa International Film Festival, Reggio Film Festival, Cornwall Film Festival, Aestethica Film Festival, Certamen de Cortometrajes de Soria
SKIN
Short Documentary | 18 min | HD | Color | UK | 2011
Written & Directed by Janina Vilsmaier
Produced by Mireia Graell
Synopsis
Thanks to a colorful host of characters from different backgrounds, Skin discovers reasons and stories behind different types of tattoos. Darryl, an established tattooist in London, leads us through this journey in order to break stereotypes behind this art.
Festivals
London Short Film Festival, Mecal Film Festival, Crystal Palace Int. Film Festival, NAHEMI (BFI), Filofest Film Festival, St. Albans Film Festival