Kaori Oda y Marta Hernaiz Pidal to tour feature film 'Cenote' in Mexico throughout April

Directed by Kaori Oda and Produced by Marta Herzaiz Pidal and Cine Vendeval tour their film Cenote - Screenings of "Cenote" in Yucatan, Mexico, from 4/8 to 4/24, the film will tour 14 municipalities and villages where filming locations. Entirely shot underwater in Yucatán’s Ts’onots/Cenotes

Kaori will be there! BUT, is only staying for about 10 days, so I they can attend about 12 places. Everyday they will strive to attend a different screening!

Outdoor screenings (free) after sunset.

WATCH A TRAILER HERE

Cada vez más cerca del estreno de 'Ts'onot (Cenote)' y nuestro no cabe de emoción. ¡Nos vemos pronto!

Tour Cine Móvil Toto en la península de Yucatán y Campeche, del 8 al 24 de abril.

Estreno en Cineteca NacionalCineteca Nacional, 28 de abril.

Marta Hernaiz Pidal wins Torino Meeting Event Prizes

Marta Hernaiz Pidal and her producer Rosa Galguera Ortega participated in the latest Torino Meeting Event wither their new film in development, AL FONDO A LA DERECHA, and won several Production Prizes at their award ceremony- CONGRATULATIONS and we cannot wait to see the film go into production soon!

This is what they were granted:

EWA Network Female Voices Award, the Sub-ti Award, the Sub-ti Access Award and the The GREEN FILMING AWARD.

Recent Bistrik7 News - we've been busy!

We here at Bistrik7 do not always diligently post our news (sometimes you might find a more thorough collection on our Facebook page), but here is an incomplete collection of some of our most recent news…..

Gonzalo Escobar Mora screened his Sarajevo short film POOL VERSION at the Bogota (Colombia) Cinemateca in October as part of the programme ‘Franja Local: Voces en espiral‘ : https://cinematecadebogota.gov.co/pelicula/franja-local-voces-en-espiral

Fernando Nogari directed two new music videos:

for @luisasonza ! Saiu o videoclipe da @luisasonza ‘Cachorrinhas’ / Produzido por: @iconoclastbrasil : WATCH! https://youtu.be/__ur8Ykcivw

and

for @pabllovittar & @gloriagroove / Produzido por: WATCH! @iconoclastbrasil : https://youtu.be/KjO_lzhe7Fs

Ghazi Alqudcy curated A Peek at Time for The Substation in Singapore, whcih included works by Bistrik7’s Lea Triboulet, Patrick Marshall, Aleksandra Niemczyk, Pilar Palomero, Marta Hernaiz Pidal and Gonzalo Escobar Mora: https://septfest2022-apeekattime.peatix.com/view

Marta Hernaiz Pidal and CineVendaval was invited to pitch ”La Balada del Fenix” en Annecy ! Cinema Fantasma #Mifapitches2022 - https://www.annecy.org/the-mifa/mifa-pitches-presentation/projects-pitched/projects

Lea Triboulet was invited with her co-writer to feature film development residency Pustnik, with their project "I WILL DRINK WITH THE BEES" https://www.pustnik.com/

Emma Rozanski started pre-production on her second feature film ‘EL VAQUERO’, shooting in Dec and Jan in Cundinamarca, Colombia. It is her first Spanish-language production.

Pilar Palomero premiered her second feature film #LaMaternal at the San Sebastian Film Festival - the film has been successfully traveling film festivals since then and has won many awards!

Congratulations to all and we cannot wait for what comes next for everyone!

Marta Hernaiz Pidal selected for Cannes Cinéfondation #LaRésidence 2021

Congratulations to Marta Hernaiz Pidal for being selected to attend the Cannes Cinefondation Residence in Paris from March 2021, to work on her new feature screenplay. We look forward to seeing how the film develops during her time there!

https://www.cinefondation.com/en/residence/

For its 42nd session #LaRésidence will welcome from March 1st to July 15th directors:

- Lucía Aleñar Iglesias (Spain )

- Behzad Azadi (Iran )

- Marta Hernaiz Pidal (Mexico / Spain )

- Inbar Horesch (Israel )

- Sameh Morsy (Egypt )

- David Vicente (Portugal )

POLKA-DOT by Aleksandra Niemczyk premieres at RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES MONDE

Aleksandra Niemczyk’s new short film "Polka-Dot" is premiering now at festival RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES MONDE and streaming online from today until 6th of December. In the section: "Cinema-Therapy". Cinematography and co-production by our Marta Hernaiz Pidal and Graeme Cole

Starring Tina Keserovic and Thomas Steyaert

Watch here.

RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES MONDE

Friday, November 13 to Sunday, December 6

POLKA-DOT, 2020, Aleksandra Niemczyk, 10 min

An impressionistic emotional struggle between a girl with a prefabricated heart and a mysterious puppet-master. Inspired by the chapter "The Girl with the Pre-Fabricated Heart" from the surrealist film "Dreams That Money Can Buy" (1947) by avant-gardist and dada artist Hans Richter.

 

Ágora de la Ciudad screening a series of Bistrik7 Films throughout 2020

Ágora de la Ciudad, an initiative in collaboration with Ex Convento Betlehemita Centro Cultural in Vera Cruz, Mexico, has been creating an exciting and diverse online screening series, complete with filmmaker interviews, throughout this summer. Many Bistrik7 Films have screened thus far (curated by Gustavo Vega) and there are many more to come throughout the rest of 2020! Other esteemed BIstrik7 colleagues from Film.Factory Sarajevo have also screened.

Keep up to date with the programme here: https://www.facebook.com/AgoraXalapa/

and via @AgoraXalapa

Next up is Gonzalo Escobar Mora’s 2019 Colombian short film, ‘Economia Social’, screening on Friday 14th August, 2020 (details here)

Kaori Oda's Cenote debuts in the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020

Next week in the Bright Futures main program, our Kaori Oda’s Mexican documentary premieres at Rotterdam. The film was also co-produced by our Marta Hernaiz-Pidal.

Synopsis:

In Northern Yucatan, Mexico, natural sinkholes called 'cenotes' constituted the sole water source for Mayans not living near a river or lake. Some cenotes were used for ritual sacrifices, and the Mayans believed that these holy springs connected this world to the afterlife.

The past and present of those living around the cenotes coalesce in this mysterious place. Long-lost memories echo in hallucinatory turquoise underwater footage, an entrancing game of light and dark. Swimming in these sinkholes, director Oda Kaori encounters intriguing shapes and beams of light, the water heaves, drops fall like razor blades.

Oda, who studied under Béla Tarr in Sarajevo, previously made Aragane, which was shot in a Bosnian coal mine. For Cenote, she used Super-8 film and a bubbling water soundscape. A captivating form for her impressions of a place where, as a ghostly voiceover explains, nothing is forgotten.

SCREENING DATES & TIMES

Original title Ts'onot

Filmmaker Oda Kaori

Premiere International premiere

Country Japan, Mexico

Year2019

Length 75’

LanguageSpanish

Producer Oda Kaori, Echigoya Takashi, Jorge Bolado, Marta Hernaiz

Production Company FieldRain, Aichi Arts Center, cinevendaval

Sales Article Films

Writer

Oda Kaori

Cinematography Oda Kaori

Editor Oda Kaori, Takeshi Hata

Production Design Marta Hernaiz

Sound Design Oda Kaori

Cast

voices of: Araceli del Rosario Chulim Tun, Juan de la Rosa Mibmay

Website https://fieldrain.net

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​脈絡のない断片的な記憶の連なり。

それ自体がもつ直感と予見性。

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-第1回目リサーチ撮影 2017年5月〜6月 実施

-第2回目リサーチ撮影 2018年5月〜6月 実施

-第3回目リサーチ撮影 2018年11月 実施

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2020年2月 恵比寿映像祭にて上映

BHFF PRESENTS: MARTA HERNAIZ PIDAL 11th April 2019

BHFF PRESENTS: MARTA HERNAIZ PIDAL

The BHFF / Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival is proud to present a Q&A with Marta Hernaiz Pidal as part of the sixteenth annual festival! On Thursday, April 11, Hernaiz Pidal joins us following the 8:45pm screening of her film The Chaotic Life of Nada Kadić, a moving drama that seamlessly blurs fiction and documentary in chronicling the life of a single mother whose young child is diagnosed with autism. See the trailer here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKywSInsN9w

Marta Hernaiz Pidal is a Mexican filmmaker with a degree in film and television, and a master’s degree in fine arts with a specialty in film direction obtained at the film.factory school in Sarajevo, which was founded by the renowned Hungarian director Béla Tarr. In 2016, her short film Dobro was part of the official selection of Cannes Film Festival in the Cinefondátion section. Her first feature film, The Chaotic Life of Nada Kadić saw its world premiere at the Berlinale Forum 2018.

Tickets to The Chaotic Life of Nada Kadić and Q&A with Hernaiz Pidal are on sale now!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/presentation-4-the-chaotic-lif…

In Hernaiz Pidal’s The Chaotic Life of Nada Kadić, Nada is a dedicated single mother, disaffected with her tumultuous domestic life yet unable to piece together a plan to change it. After Nada finds out her daughter is on the autistic spectrum, together they embark on a journey through the Balkans in search of peace with the past, and acceptance of new realities. On their long drive through the foggy, rainy countryside, and away from the chaos of home, perhaps they can form new bonds, and learn new ways to communicate with one another. The BHFF invites you to join us for this special presentation and Q&A with Hernaiz Pidal on Thursday, April 11, at 8:45pm!

The Chaotic Life of Nada Kadić wins the Jury Prize at the Festival International de Films de Femmes

The Chaotic Life of Nada Kadić (Writer/Director Marta Hernaiz Pidal) has won the Jury Prize at the @Festival International de Films de Femmes, one of the oldest and most important festivals for women filmmakers!

Here were the comments from the jury:

« Comme des chasseurs d’éclairs, on attend un moment où l’on peut se retrouver à contempler le spectacle que peut nous donner à voir une tornade, à se passionner pour des objets pris à l’intérieur, se dire qu’on ne les avait jamais vus comme ce...

" like lightning hunters, we're waiting for a moment where we can find ourselves to contemplate the show that can give us to see a tornado, to is for objects taken inside, to say that we've never seen them Like this before. This is what we offer the chaotic life of nada kadic, by a whole singular look... " - Fiction Jury

Congratulations Marta and the team!

Curation of Bistrik7 films screening in Bourges on 17th November 2018

A curated program of short films by Bistrik7 filmmakers will be screened in Bourges, France on 17th November 2018, at 6pm, as part of this year’s Bandits Mages -Unstable reality and shifting knowledges. Mending the Fabric of the World -

Link to info: http://rencontres2018.bandits-mages.com/carte-blanche/

This is the most wonderful list of films:

Namsuk Kim - Self Portrait 4m

Marta Hernaiz Pidal - Spoon 4m
Bianca Lucas - Bogeyman 23m
Emma Rozanski - Pangaea 8m
Patrick Marshall - A Letter to John Fitzgerald Kennedy Concerning Outer Space, Assassinations, and the Cosmic Universal Cinema 9m
Pilar Palomero - Horta 15m
Andre Gil Mata - Num Globo De Neve 9m
Gonzalo Escobar Mora - Pool Version 20m
Marta Hernaiz Pidal - Cycle 8m
Manel Raga - Manel Lives In Sarajevo 5m

(and here is a full program of events - lots of exciting stuff to see)

Kudos to Aleksandra Niemczyk & Graeme Cole for curating the program.

Berlinale Premieres for films by Marta Hernaiz Pidal and Andre Gil Mata

Congratulations to our Bistrik7 colleagues Marta Hernaiz Pidal and André Gil Mata ! Both are premiering feature films at Berlinale this year, along with our teacher Guy Maddin. Viva la família de Sarajevo and Bistrik7! 
Here is the Press Release from The Berlinale:
https://www.berlinale.de/…/pres…/alle/Alle-Detail_41108.html

More screenings of Marta Hernaiz-Pidal's DOBRO

Marta Hernaiz-Pidal's short film DOBRO had its USA premiere at New York Film Festival in October as part of the Emerging Filmmakers Showcase, this narrative program features seven unique films from seven countries in six different languages.

DOBRO is also part of the official competition at Film Femmes Mediterranean in MARSEILLE http://www.films-femmes-med.org/

And is in oficial selection of Festival du Court Métrage Méditerranéen: http://www.ccm.ma/14fcmmt/programtg4.html

Sarajevo Film Festival - Bistrik7 Film listings and ticket sales

A few of us @Bistrik7 have film premieres at the upcoming Sarajevo Film Festival (@22ndSFF - Aug 12th-20th).

Tickets and screening details are now online so here's a guide to seek out and see our films there. 

Many of us will be attending so come and say hi if you go see our films...goes without saying we thoroughly recommend them all!

PAPAGAJKA (The Parrot) / 82mins / dir: Emma Rozanski / Drama-Thriller / English and Bosnian language / 2016

BABA VANGA / 77mins / dir: Aleksandra Niemczyk / Drama / English and French language / 2016

POOL VERSION / 21mins dir: Gonzalo Escobar Mora / Drama / Bosnian language / 2016

GORA / 76mins / dir: Stefan Malesevic/ Documentary / 2016

DOBRO / 10mins / dir: Marta Hernaiz Pidal / Bosnian language / 2016

NOĆ / 10mins / dir: Pilar Palomero / 2016