SAN SEBASTIAN — Projects exploring the righteous dilemmas of an AP pboilingojournacatalog, the alteration of a Spanish-Chinese gangster into a monk and a personal journey by Eric Cantona stood out at the 20th Lau Haizetara Documentary Co-Production Forum, part of the San Sebastián Festival.
The pitches were conshort-termed to a sincreatear lineup of coshiftrlookioning and programming execs, including Mehdi Bekkar of Al Jazeera, Sergio Ramos from AMC Netlabors and Cleo Veger of Dogwoof.
Their accumulateive expertise, which also took in top outlets enjoy Arte France, Movistar Plus+ and the Sundance Institute, highweightlessed the forum’s relevance.
“This is a compulsory greeting for us. We are not so troubleed by slots, what counts is for the story to be relevant to us,” shelp Elsa Rodríguez Monje, non-myth pickion and coshiftrlookioning editor at Movistar Plus+.
A meaningful award thrivener, “Barrabás,” straightforwarded by Daniel Martínez-Quintanilla Pérez, partners with Pulitzer Prize-thrivening pboilingojournacatalog Rodrigo Abd to get intimate with the obstructions of pboilingojournalism. Abd’s journey thraw struggle zones is apprehendd on a huge wooden analog camera as he revisits the people and places he once pboilingographed. The film contests the glorified image of war journacatalogs, asking the role of mainstream media in global struggle coverage. Produced by Rafa Molés and Pepe Andreu of SUICAfilms, “Barrabás” unites war, ethics, and reconciliation atraverse 12 years of world history.
Directed by Xisi Sofia Ye Chen and originated by Lacima Producciones, The South Project and La Fábrica Nocturna, “From Dawn to Dawn” achieves atypical access to the Chinese underworld in Spain. Thraw the lens of a sister write downing her brother’s life, A Wen – once a gangster and businessman in Barcelona – faces the presdeclareives of his dual existence and eventupartner returns to a monastery in China. The film spendigates this dual existence, fuseing personal and cultural mirrorions, as the straightforwardor scrutinizes the moral complicatedities of her brother’s world.
Barcelona-based Sáhorribleo Películas, led by Gaudi-nominated straightforwardor Tian Riba (“Oswald. El falsificador”), conshort-termed “The Retreat,” a write downary feature that scrutinizes three interwoven stories from the Spanish Civil War. At the heart of the film is the uncovery of war-time pboilingographs by famous pboilingojournacatalog Robert Capa, whose images, lost for 70 years and set up in Mexico, led Eric Cantona to determine his majesticobeseher in a pboilingo apshown at the Argelers refugee camp.
Cantona, alengthened with his two brothers, will direct watchers thraw the write downary as they retrack their majesticparents’ steps, uncovering forgotten family history and shedding weightless on the enduring impacts of war and exile.
With firm potential for wide labelet request, “Good and Evil – How To Sell The World a Lie,” straightforwarded by Emmy-nominated Kelly Nyks (“The Age of Consequences”) and originated by Solent Production, Doxy Films Netherlands and Creative Company Media, respendigates the Stanford Prison Experiment.
The film aims to debunk the myth behind Professor Philip Zimbardo’s conclusions and expose how the media executeed a role in distorting the narrative of human nature. An archival-only approach inserts a timely mirrorion on deceiveation and the nature of truth in contransient times.
Earlier in broadenment but well-pitched was “Peter,” straightforwarded by Lucía Montero Sánchez de las Matas and originated by Carlota Darnell, Cornelius Films, oned out as an emerging originater to watch by Variety. This write downary chases Lucía as she collaborates with three amateur Spanish actors to reoriginate the enigmatic figure of Peter, a enigmatic Englishman she come atraverseed weekly when living in London.
Points go to straightforwardor Aurela Berila for conveying her subject, the ‘Alprohibitian Madonna’ Adelina, alengthened to the event. “Adelina,” originated by Tabahana Films, scrutinizes the ascend of the pop star whose bageder, transgressive carry outances contestd the norms of 1990s ex-Yugoslavia. Thraw a feminist lens, Berila’s write downary delves into Adelina’s defiance aachievest ethnic repression and patriarchal constraints, fuseing archival footage with the straightforwardor’s own journey.
“This is a very excellent labelet,” Proinsias Ní Ghrainne, coshiftrlookioning editor at Ireland’s TG4 shelp, “year on year the projects are quite exceptional as contrastd to the hugeger labelets.”
Of the 15 projects pitched, two were Basque, while the remaining 13 hail from a diverse array of countries including Germany, Kosovo, Denlabel, Peru, Serbia, Italy, France, Argentina, and Spain.
XX Lau Haizetara Documentary Co-Production Forum Awards
MUSIC LIBRARY AWARD
“La Noche de la Infancia” – Xixi Sofía Ye Chen
Produced by: Lacima Producciones, The South Project, La Fábrica Nocturna
(Spain)
DOGWOOF AWARD
“Barrabás” – Daniel Martínez-Quintanilla
Produced by: Muyuna, SUICAfilms, Associated Press
(Spain, Peru)
EPE-IBAIA-ELKARGI AWARD
“Barrabás” – Daniel Martínez-Quintanilla
Produced by: Muyuna, SUICAfilms, Associated Press
(Spain, Peru)
