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IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam18th November - 6th December 2020
cover photo: Facunda
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Catalan Films atIDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam Luminous Programme 04 IDFA Forum 06IDFAcademy 10 Docs For Sale 12Upcoming Catalan Docs 15Catalan Delegation 26
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Facunda
Director: Marta RomeroProduction: Allegra FilmsWorld Sales: Allegra Films
ScreeningsFri 20 Nov 20:45 Tuschinski 4 (Premiere Screening)Thu 26 Nov 17:00 Online ScreeningThu 3 Dec 17:00 Online Screening
Fascinated by the character and manner of her great-aunt Facun-da, Marta and a small film crew decide to move to the depths of La Mancha for a season. The objective is to document the passing of the days of this octogenarian who, every summer, returns to her hometown to live alone in her lifelong home. But Facunda has pro-posed a mission: the relentless boycott of the film.
Contact in IDFAMayca [email protected]
Ángel, Diary of a Planned Death
Angel waited years for an euthanasia law to be passed to help his wife have a dignified death. But he had to sacrifice himself to push the change.
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Original title: Ángel, diario de
una muerte planeada
Estimated time: 52’-90’ min
Original language: Spanish
Budget: € 246,000
Funding confirmed: € 18,000
Partners already attached: TV3
– Televisió de Catalunya
Fernando González Started his career as a communicator at natio-nal radio, but soon moved to television, beco-ming scriptwriter and the face of some of the most viewed reportage programmes on natio-nal TV. He specialises in investigative reporting and has a real passion for social issues and human right stories. He is also the author of 2 books All for my country (2015) and My bor-ders (2019).
Producciones del Barrio Non-fiction production company that produces narrative, cinematic and journalistic content. Unprecedented access to key international figures is one of our assets. Amongst our recent productions is Match Day (2019), an observa-tional documentary series following the inside story of FC Barcelona’s 2018-19 season, or the documentary features Andrés Iniesta: the unex-pected hero (2020) and Astral (2016), about the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean.
Contact in IDFA Laura Collado [email protected]
Goals in IDFA 2020 Our main objective in IDFA is to find internatio-nal broadcasters interested in co-producing and pre-buying the film. We are particularly loo-king for partners in Germany and France (ARTE), Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, but opened to any other territories and options that would help us with the financing of the film.
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Burn the Cuckoo’s Nest
Immersive documentary on the medical and scientific revolution around psychedelic drugs, through the intimate document of personal transformation and physical healing with new psichodelic treatments.
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Original title: Burn the
Cuckoo’s Nest
Estimated time: 60’ dome
format / 75’ cinema tv
Original language: Catalan /
Spanish/ English
Budget: € 235,000
Funding confirmed: € 30,000
Selected at: IDFA Forum 2020
Partners already attached:
Eyesberg Studio
Jo SolJo Sol is a cinema director and scriptwriter with a long trajectory in fiction and documentary films and the conception of new audiovisual formats. His films have been distributed inter-nationally and obtained recognition in festivals such as San Sebastian, Locarno, Bafici, Tallinn, among others.
Shaktimetta Shaktimetta is a production company speciali-zed in the production of fictional and documen-tary feature films with a marked political and social character. We are committed to renewing narrative languages and new formats that can add value to our content.
Contact in IDFA Jo [email protected]
Goals in IDFA 2020 Funds, co-production (Nederland, Canada, US, Mexico), sales broadcast, distribution, speciali-zed immersive companies VR/ Dome formats.
A Sad and Vulgar Loner
Ernesto, as a young man, finds himself being violent and jealous when he has emotional relationships. He got married and had a son, but three years later he almost killed them both. He would have succee-ded had it not been for his mother calling the police, having seen that he was mentally ill. After many years of repeating this pattern of jealousy, he finally understood his issue and wrote an autobiography. Now he wants to make a fiction film about it. Two directors who are interested suggest making a documentary instead. The film will track these events in Ernesto’s past. He will review his past and share his point of view and theory of jealousy. Some of his violent memories will be reconstructed by actors and with the help of a therapist, who will guide him through the regression experience. This will trigger a possible change in him.
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Original title: Un vulgar y triste
solitario
Estimated time: 85’
Original language: Spanish
Budget: € 485,500
Funding confirmed: € 110,000
Selected at: L’Alternativa
Mentoring Projects - Barcelona
(2019), LSD Workshop with Fer-
nanda Rossi - Barcelona (2019),
WEMW co-production Forum
Pitching session - Trieste, Italy
(2020). CIRCLE Women´s Doc
Accelerator (2020), Lau Haizeta-
ra Documentary Co-production
Forum 2020 (68 SSIFF), IDFAca-
demy 2020.
Partners already attached:
CCMA, Tv3, ThurnFilm
Efthymia ZymvragakiMaster’s degree in Artistic Productions and Research, Fine Arts UAB. Photographer tra-ined at the IEFC, Barcelona. Degree in Psy-chology - University of Crete, Greece. She directed the short documentary Refrán. DOP of several short films. Dop: Rocco Has Your Name, feature film by Angelo Orlando (2015) Co-producer: In Loco Parentis (School Life), creative Documentary by Neasa Ni Chianáin and David Rane (2017). Dop / producer: You will be a man, creative documentary by Isabel de Ocampo (2018).
GrisMedioProduction company based in Barcelona, Spain, specialising in creative documenta-ries and authorial feature films. The company focuses on each project’s special needs and the filmmaker’s vision. The films the company has co-produced have been selected to festi-vals like Sundance, IDFA, Vision du Réel, have received multiple awards and a nomination to the European Film Awards.
Contact in IDFA Efthymia [email protected]
Goals in IDFA 2020 Our aim is to connect with key players in the inter-national film industry and explore the strategies and possibilities of international financing and co-production, as well as to get creative consul-tancy. Co-production/co-producers, TV / Broad-caster co-financing/co-production, Production funds, World Sales Agent, Impact Producer.
Director: Javier TolentinoProduction Companies: Quatre Films, Eddie SaetaInternational Sales: Quatre FilmsCountry: Spain, IranYear: 2020Runtime: 80’Synopsis: A tragicomic and poetic journey to the anonymous faces of Iran. Different characters show us a country where tradition and moder-nity coexist and confront each other. Through music and poetry, our cha-racters reveal the dreams that remain hidden in their souls.
Blues for Teheran
Erasmus in Gaza
Directors: Chiara Avesani, Matteo Delbó Production Companies: Arpa FilmsInternational Sales: Java FilmsCountry: SpainYear: 2020Runtime: 82’Synopsis: Riccardo, an Italian fi-nal-year medical student, is the first student ever to go on Erasmus to Gaza, a war zone. His experience will determine the success of the exchan-ge programme.
Contact in IDFA: Quatre FilmsAlejandra [email protected]
Contact in IDFA: Java FilmsKathryn [email protected]
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Director: Marta Romero CollProduction Companies: Allegra FilmsInternational Sales: Allegra FilmsCountry: SpainYear: 2020Runtime: 17’Synopsis: Distinctly untypical portrait of an elderly Spanish woman who calmly does what the director, her grandniece, tells her to do. In between all the instructions, disarming and true-to-life moments arise that are beyond anyone’s control.
Facunda
The Man Who Wanted to See It All
Directors: Albert AlbaceteProduction Companies: Loto Films,Gaia Audiovisuals, Televisió de Cata-lunya, Tana FilmsInternational Sales: FeelsalesCountry: SpainYear: 2020Runtime: 92’Synopsis: On August 22, 1960, Heinz Stücke left Hövelhof with his bike, now he is 72 years old and stops for the first time.
Contact in IDFA: Allegra FilmsMayca [email protected]
Contact in IDFA: FeelsalesPablo Briseño Galvá[email protected]
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Director: Javier PoloProduction Companies: Japonica Fil-ms, Los Hermanos PoloInternational Sales: The Party Film SalesCountry: SpainYear: 2020Runtime: 83’Synopsis: Documentary about an ec-centric character and his unusual quest to reveal the true story behind the hot pink queen of kitsch: the pink flamingo. The protagonist gathers together theo-ries and interpretations from a bizarre selection of sources that eventually lead him to discover the influence these birds have on the world around us.
The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo
Postwar Album
Directors: Angel Leiro, Airy MaragallProduction Companies: LukimediaInternational Sales: New DocsCountry: SpainYear: 2020Runtime: 83’Synopsis: 25 years after the siege, Spanish war reporter Gervasio Sán-chez returns to Sarajevo, where he meets with adults he photographed as children. How did the war change their lives?
Contact in IDFA: The Party Film SalesThéo [email protected]
Contact in IDFA: New DocsLuisa [email protected]
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I am
Inspired by the idea that love educates and that conversation in the classroom is a key piece for the development of good lear-ning, the documentary I am is a journey around being, growing and learning from the same class in a primary school in Barcelo-na. During 8 years, from 4 years old to 12, we observed the living portrait and the continuity of a group of children. Their relations-hips, their frustrations, their yearnings, and joys that year after year are changing or perpetuating in their personalities.
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Original title: Jo soc
Estimated time: 90’
Original language: Catalan
Budget: € 120,000
Funding confirmed: € 20,000
Selected at: DocsBarcelona
Partners already attached:
Not yet
Patricia M. FélixPatricia developed her career as a director at the International School of Cinema of Cuba and at The New York Film Academy. She has worked on artistic projects covering a wide range of works from artistic visuals, social documentaries, music video-clips and com-mercials. Her greatest talent is the vision, care, creative and artistic touch, she entrusts in each and every project she is tasked with.
Diana Toucedo Films In 2018 Diana Toucedo produced her first feature film Trinta Lumes and was premiered at the Berlinale Panorama 2018 and awarded in several international film festivals.
WKNDWKND is a production company based in Barcelona that has produced the feature live action The Nice Unfaithful Husbands Club and the animated TV series Tender Metal.
Contact in IDFA Patricia M. Fé[email protected]
Goals in IDFA 2020 We are looking for a distributor to handle the international sales and we are also looking for TV broadcasters and VOD platforms interested in acquiring the rights.
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Muyeres
In the Asturian mountains of Cangas de Narcea live the last guar-dians of a centuries-old tradition, the oral transmission of songs, romances and legends. These women were taught by their ances-tors, but now no one continues their legacy and their voices are muted. A visitor comes to the valley with an old recording device that guards the voices of these women recorded years ago. Ob-sessed with these deep songs, he decides to start his search in order to find them.
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Original title: Muyeres
Estimated time: 90’
Original language: Spanish /
Asturian
Budget: € 600,000
Funding confirmed: € 360,000
Selected at: Málaga Work in
Progress winning the REC and
FIDBA awards in this edition.
Margins Work, Script / Doc
Check + Development Advice
by Europa Creativa Desk -
Media Catalunya, Cinespaña
Lab, Abycine Lanza and Catalan
Films Matchmackings Sitges
Festival.
Partners already attached:
Public funds: ICAA, Private
Funds of the production com-
pany and production company
partners.
Marta LallanaMarta writes, produces and directs her first film Ojos Negros in 2019, winner of the Biznaga de Plata for Best Spanish Film at the Málaga Festival. In 2017, she works as co-wri-ter and assistant director of the short Restos de cosas, produced by Nanouk Films. She was runner-up for the EuropeanTV contest Master of Photography (2016), supervised by photographers like Alex Webb or Bruce Gilden.
Corte y Confección de Películas Production company specialized in genre and art-house films, producing films, series and documentaries. Used to work in co-pro-duction, our goal is to produce quality genre and auteur movies with worldwide rele-vance. We work in tight collaboration with writers and directors, establishing long-las-ting relationships and develop ambitious and international projects.
Contact in IDFA Marta [email protected]
Goals in IDFA 2020 For the project Muyeres we are looking for an international sales agent to help the project having the best festival strategy and tour.
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Ole mi coño, The Ransomware Case
Ole mi coño is a cinematic riposte to the stalker who stole my laptop and revealed my intimate photos. A documentary thriller on how I embark into a terrible blackmail situation. Shame, anger, and distress caused by months of brutal extortion transform into the need of sharing my experience. Realizing the inefficiencies of the legal/police process, I start my own investigation on the dan-gers and challenges of private data in our modern society.
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Original title: Ole mi coño
Estimated time: 65’
Original language: Catalan,
Spanish, English
Budget: € 232,175
Funding confirmed: € 35,700
Selected at: Catalan Films Mat-
chmackings Sitges Festival and
Sources2 – Europa Creativa -
Media Desk Catalunya.
Partners already attached:
Víctor Grifols Foundation and
Televisió de Catalunya.
Patricia Franquesa Patricia has been part of the creative team of the Heymann Brothers Films and Medalia Pro-ductions in Israel. In 2019 produces with Laura Imperiale the feature doc La Mami (IDFA, SXSW, MoMA DocFortnight). Currently, she’s editing her first feature doc as a director Oh Dear Sara (ICEC, Film Center Serbia) co-pro-duced with Serbia, and developing her new documentary project Ole mi coño.
Gadea FilmsA creative platform aiming to enrich and pro-duce innovative storytelling while exploring meaning and direction to our time. We have produced the doc feature La Mami (IDFA, SXSW, MoMADocFornitght).
Ringo MediaA production company based in Barcelona created by Mireia Graell (Goya Nominated 2018), which has produced Matria (Sundance Grand Jury Prize Short Film 2018) and is deve-loping features and shorts.
Contact in IDFA Patricia [email protected]
Goals in IDFA 2020 We are looking for financiers such broadcas-ters, streaming platforms, international sales agents, film grants and connect with Class A film festivals’ programmers.
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Pepi Fandango
Pepi embarks on a journey from his home in Vienna (Austria) to the village of Paterna de Rivera in Andalusia (Spain) to face au-thentic flamenco song: music that causes him pain, awakening his childhood memories as a Holocaust survivor, and at the same time, relieves his internal suffering. Pepi Fandango is an intimate documentary, spanning seven decades and three European coun-tries. Carrying the burden of childhood trauma, a man confronts his lifelong scars supported only by the power of music, humor and the transformative power of friendship.
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Original title: Pepi Fandango
Estimated time: 75’ – 55’
Original language: German,
Spanish, French
Budget: € 203,000
Funding confirmed: € 50,000
Selected at: MediMed 2019
Partners already attached:
Public Funds: ICEC
Lucija Stojevic Lucija’s documentary feature La Chana (2016) won 17 awards, including the IDFA Audience Award 2016. It showed at over 150 festivals worldwide, was distributed theatrically in eight countries and broadcast internationally. She has also directed over 30 short documen-taries for global media, such as The Guardian and The New York Times. She is currently directing and producing multiple projects.
Noon FilmsIndependent production company focusing on powerful, character-driven films. Our feature documentary La Chana was shown at over 150 international film festivals, picking up 17 awards along the way. We have pro-duced films for international clients such as Red Bull Media House and interactive docu-mentaries for Barcelona City Hall and Doctors Without Borders, among others.
Contact in IDFA Lucija [email protected]
Goals in IDFA 2020 To find financing for the last part of shooting and post-production. Interested in broadcas-ters or distributors from Austria, Germany and France. Looking for audience developers/in-novative film marketing consultants. We’d like to be able to engage the education market in Europe, as well as other French, Austrian and German producers.
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Tolyatti Adrift
The old Russian city Tolyatti which once was a symbol of pro-gress and socialist pride is nowadays the poorest in Russia. It was known for its car industry, mainly for the legendary car called LADA. Currently it’s a deteriorated place, stuck in the moment and with the highest youth unemployment rates in the country. In this desolated context arises ‘Boyevaya Klassika’, a teenagers’ movement based on the idea of rescuing the old cars from the local factory. They aren’t only able to give these icons, a second chance but they also turn them into a distraction, rebelliousness and expression towards hope.
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Original title: Tolyatti Adrift
Estimated time: 90’
Original language: Russian
Budget: € 208,567
Funding confirmed: € 167,167
Selected at: DOK Leipzig
Co-Pro Market, XIII Foro Lau
Haizetara, FIPA Industry Pitch,
Abycine Lanza 2018
Partners already attached:
Les Films d’Ici, Radio Canada,
France Télévisions, TV3, ICAA
film fund, CNC Cosip, Procirep.
Laura SisteróIn 2012 she graduated from ESCAC. She com-bines her work as an advertising director with more personal film projects. In 2014 she won a MEDIA scholarship with which she is develo-ping her first feature film Jeena, currently in pro-duction. In 2016 she wrote and directed along with Alejo Levis the short film Waste. Tolyatti Adrift is her first feature-length documentary.
Boogaloo FilmsCreative group from Barcelona that works with new forms of production and storyte-lling. Their commitment goes through the re-flection of current issues, with a vocation for internationalization of young talent, without forgetting risk and creative and artistic points of view. Their professional work has earned them more than 50 awards at national and international festivals.
Contact in IDFA Bernat [email protected]
Goals in IDFA 2020 We are looking for sales agents, TV pre-sales and international distribution.
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Allegra Films
Marta Romero Coll
Director
Production
Allegra Films
Mayca Sanz
Producer
Amici Miei
Johann Kaucher
Project Manager
Boogaloo Films
Bernat Manzano
Producer
Corte y Confección de Películas
Marta Lallana
Director
Diana Toucedo Fims
Patricia M. Félix
Director
Eyesberg Studio
José Vaaliña Fratini
Producer
Gadea Films
Patricia Franquesa
Director/Producer
Gris Medio SCP
Efthymia Zymvragaki
Director/Producer
La Ferida Produccions
Gerard Gil
Director/Producer
La Selva. Ecosistema Creatiu
Matheus Mello
Producer
Lukimedia
Stephanie von Lukowicz
Producer
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Noon Films
Lucija Stojevic
Director/Producer
Polar Star Films S.L.
Marieke van den Bersselaar
Producer
Producciones del Barrio
Enric Bach
Producer
Producciones del Barrio
Fernando González
Director/Journalist
Producciones del Barrio
Laura Collado
Producer
Shaktimetta produccions
Pau Milán
Producer
Shaktimetta produccions
Jo Sol
Director/Producer
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DocsBarcelona
Diego Mas Trelles
Head of Industry
Mar Medir
Coordinator
Broadcaster
Festival
DocsBarcelona
Pol Roig
Deputy Head of Programming
Corporació Catalana de Mitjans
Audiovisuals (TV3)
Sílvia Pairó
Executive Producer
CATALAN FILMS & TV
Joan Ruiz
International Promotion
Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovi-
suals (TV3)
Montse Armengou
Commissioning Editor
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