Sinopsis
Fiction. Paula is a 14-year-old teenager. She has to spend her summer in Ojos Negros, a small town, with her aunt and her grandmother, although she doesn’t know them really well. She discovers the family tensions that emerge due to her grandmother’s illness. She tries to escape this suffocating atmosphere and meets Alicia, a girl of her own age. Both girls develop a strong friendship. By the end of the summer, Paula will start to understand, intuitively, what it means to become an adult.
Marta Lallana was born 25 years ago in Zaragoza (Spain). During her studies at the Art School, she discovered her passion for films and photography and decided to move to Barcelona and study Audiovisual Communication at Universidad Pompeu Fabra. When she was 22, she was one of the 12 photographers selected to compete in the European Master of Photography game show, broadcasted through the Sky Arts Channel. She was among the final contestants and during her stay in Rome, her work was supervised by photographers like Alex Webb, Bruce Gilden, and David Lachapelle. When she returned to Barcelona, she started her career with the short film El Arquero, as the cinematography director. She then did simultaneously, on the one side, the production, script, and co-direction of her filmmaking debut with Ojos negros, while on the other side, she was developing several projects on the drawing boards of the production company Nanouk Films. She co-wrote several scripts, among them, the short film Restos de cosas (Salvador Sunyer y Xavier Bobés, 2018).
Ivet Castelo (born in 1995, in Vic) graduated in Audiovisual Communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in 2017. In 2016 she decided to study abroad for a semester, at Korea University (Seoul). She was the director of production of the short film El Arquero, produced by Universitat Pompeu Fabra, premiered at Mecal and selected in national festivals like the SomCinema Festival. Ojos negros is her debut as a director and scriptwriter. She currently lives in Vienna and pursues her filmmaker career there.
November, 5th 2020. 6.30pm
Sala Berlanga at Fundación SGAE
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Section: Panorama on Spanish Authors
Year of Production: 2019
Running Time: 65’
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Director: Marta Lallana and Ivet Castelo, assisted by Ivan Alarcón and Sandra Garcia
Cast: Julia Lallana, Alba Alcaine, Anna Sabaté, Inés Paricio, Roberto Sanz and Raquel Vicente
Production: Salvador Sunyer and Andrés Mellina
Production Company: Nanouk Films
International Sales: Filmin
Main Festivals and Awards: Winner of “Biznaga de Plata” Award to Best Picture at the Malaga Festival, 2019, The Jury’s Special Award at the Festival “Opera Prima” in Tudela, and Award to the Best new filmmaker at the Cinespaña International Festival in Toulouse. Selected at the following Festivals: 2019 BAFICI International Festival of Independent Film in Buenos Aires; 2019 Festival D’A, Cinema d’Autor, in Barcelona; Atlàntida Film Festival; Buñuel International Festival in Calanda; Cerdanya Film Festival; Der Neue Heimatfilm; Festival Internacional de San Sebastián; and Mannheim-Heidelberg Int. Film Festival
