Pilar Palomero has begun filming her 3rd feature film!

Wishing Pilar a most wonderful time on her latest film shoot, which began recently - this will be Pilar’s 3rd feature film and we are so proud and can’t wait to see it when it’s done! #LosDestellos

We’ll post more news when we get a sneak peek from @pilar_palomero

#LosDestellos es una producción de @mod_producciones , Misent Producciones e @inicia_films, que cuenta con la participación de @rtve @movistarplus , TVC y @apunt_media , con la financiación de @cineicaa y la colaboración del @icec.cat e @institutvalenciadecultura

Pilar Palomero's La Maternal screening in Colombia →

Pilar Palomero is in Colombia this month to accompany her latest film LA MATERNAL - Our Bogota Bistrik7 residents, Gonzalo Escobar Mora and Emma Rozanski, are crazy excited to welcome her and have some long overdue catching up!

https://cinematecadebogota.gov.co/pelicula/maternal-0

With support of the Spanish Embassy in Colombia: https://ccecolombia.com/la-maternal/

Sinopsis: A los 14 años, Carla es una adolescente salvaje y rebelde. Vive en un modesto restaurante a las afueras de la ciudad con su joven madre soltera, falta a clase y pasa el tiempo con su amigo Efraín. Cuando una trabajadora social se da cuenta de que Carla está embarazada de cinco meses, la llevan a "La Maternal", un centro para madres adolescentes, para que viva con otras jóvenes como ella. Junto a sus bebés, aprenderán a enfrentarse a esta nueva vida adulta para la que no han tenido tiempo de prepararse.

2022 - España - 122 mins

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.

André Gil Mata retrospective at Batalha Centro de Cinema →

Batalha Centro de Cinema

On Thursday, a comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the work of André Gil Mata begins at Batalha Centro de Cinema, with the national preview of "Patio do Carrasco"!

Notes from the cinema on the retrospective:

The notion of home while fundamental, life and death, childhood and old age, representation and memory are some of the recurring concerns in Gil Mata's cinema. In his films, usually dark and melancholic, he stands out a way of "carving time" that affirms him as an odd director in the national context.

In addition to his full filmography, this retrospective integrates a director’s pick — Aleksandar Petrović’s “Tri,” — and a special session on Cinema Trindade where the first publication dedicated to his film practice will be released.

Na quinta-feira, damos início à retrospetiva integral dedicada à obra de André Gil Mata, com a antestreia nacional de “Pátio do Carrasco”!

A noção de casa enquanto reduto fundamental, a vida e a morte, a infância e a velhice, a representação e a memória são algumas das preocupações recorrentes no cinema de Gil Mata. Nos seus filmes, por norma sombrios e melancólicos, sobressai um modo de “esculpir o tempo” que o afirma como um realizador ímpar no contexto nacional.

Para além da sua filmografia completa, esta retrospetiva integra uma escolha do realizador — “Tri”, de Aleksandar Petrović — e uma sessão especial no Cinema Trindade, onde será lançada a primeira publicação dedicada à sua prática fílmica.

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!

Bistrik7's omnibus in Jonathan Rosenbaum's Top 10 films of 2021 →

We are honoured that beloved critic, Jonathan Rosenbaum, has listed our latest omnibus film among his favourite films of 2021 in the BFI’s Best Films list:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/best-films-2021-all-votes

We hope the film will be available for the public to watch in the not too distant future - stay tuned!

Letters From the Ends of the World: https://www.bistrikseven.com/letters-from-the-ends-of-the-world

Pilar Palomero begins shooting 2nd feature film, La Maternal →

Filming has begun on Pilar Palomero’s sophomore feature film ‘La Maternal’, in Zaragoza, with the production companies Inicia Films and BTeam Pictures. We cannot wait to see the results!

Her debut feature was Goya award winning ‘Las Niñas, which premiered at the Berlinale in 2020

Website to follow progress on the new film: https://www.iniciafilms.com/en/la-maternal-2/

Feature film / Drama/ 100min/ Colour/HD

Emma Rozanski receives Enterprise funding from Screen Australia →

Congratulations to Emma Rozanski for receiving Enterprise funding from Screen Australia for her second feature film in development, Colombian drama El VAQUERO (The Cowboy), to participate in the Torino Film Lab’s NEXT Script Development workshops.

https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/media-centre/news/2021/03-31-over-2-million-enterprise-funding

Las Niñas, the debut film of Pilar Palomero, wins 4 Goya Awards and more! →

Huge congratulations are in order for Las Niñas, the debut film of our Pilar Palomero, which has won 4 Goya Awards - for Best Film, Best Debut Film, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography.

In fact, Las Niñas has been the most awarded film this year in Spain, and since Sept 4th, day of public release, the film is still in cinemas!

-Feroz Awards: Best Drama Film, Best director and best screenplay.

-Gaudí Awards: Best non-catalan film, Best Director and best cinematography.

-Forqué Awards: Best Film.

-The film was premiered at Berlinale Kplus 2020 and won the Golden Biznaga in the Malaga Film Festival.

Pilar is preparing her new film "La Maternal" which will start shooting on October 2021.

Pilar Palomero participated in Berlinale Talents with her new feature screenplay in development →

Pilar Palomero recently participated in Berlinale Talents Script Station with her new feature screenplay in development- La Maternal - Drama, Spain, 100 min

https://www.berlinale-talents.de/bt/talent/pilar-palomero/profile

Kaori Od's film Cenote now playing on MUBI →

Kaori Oda's magical film CENOTE, set in Mexico and also co-produced by our Marta Hernaiz-Pidal (along with Bistrik7 collaborator and friend Jorge Bolado), is now playing on MUBI for a limited time as part of their Rotterdam Film Festival selection. If you have yet to see it now is your chance!

WATCH HERE: https://mubi.com/films/cenote

Emma Rozanski and Gonzalo Escobar Mora develop new Colombian feature film project with Torino Film Lab →

Emma Rozanski and Gonzalo Escobar Mora have been selected to participate in the Torino Film Lab NEXT script development workshops in Sep/Oct with Colombian-set Spanish-language feature film EL VAQUERO.

More information about the workshops and a list of the selected projects can be found here: http://www.torinofilmlab.it/training/tfl-extended-2/tfl-next/tfl-next/35-tfl-next-film-development

Torino Film Lab: http://www.torinofilmlab.it/

Las niñas de Pilar Palomero, mejor película española en el Festival de Málaga!

Congratulations Pilar and Team on their festival prize for Las Niñas!

Las niñas

Pilar Palomero | 2020 | España

PRODUCCIÓNInicia Films, Bteam Pictures, Las Niñas Majicas A.I.E
DURACIÓN100 minutos
GUIONPilar Palomero
FOTOGRAFÍADaniela Cajías
MÚSICACarlos Naya

MONTAJE

Sofi Escudé

REPARTO

Andrea Fandos, Natalia de Molina, Zoe Arnao, Julia Sierra, Francesca Piñón

DISTRIBUCIÓN

Bteam Pictures

VENTAS INTERNACIONALES

Film Factory

CONTACTO

info@iniciafilms.com

SINOPSIS

Celia, una niña de once años, estudia en un colegio de monjas en Zaragoza y vive con su madre. Brisa, una nueva compañera, recién llegada de Barcelona, la empuja hacia una nueva etapa en su vida: la adolescencia. En este viaje, en la España de la Expo y de las Olimpiadas del año 92, Celia descubre que la vida está hecha de muchas verdades y algunas mentiras.

New trailer for Pilar Palomero's Las niñas

Watch the new trailer for Pilar Palomero's debut feature film, Las niñas, here.

RTVE.es estrena el tráiler de Las niñas, la ópera prima de la cineasta Pilar Palomero: una historia de muchas de las mujeres de hoy, dibujada a través de la educación que recibieron a principios de los 90 en España. Protagonizada por Andrea Fandos y Natalia de Molina.

Las niñas premiered in the 2020 Berlinale.

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’ in JAPAN CUTS 2020!

‘Cenote’ in JAPAN CUTS 2020!

We will be showing "and" in the experimental spotlight department of Japan Cuts 2020 Online Film Festival this year. We will also participate in panel discussions to talk to all the directors who are participating in the documentary department.

https://japancuts.japansociety.org/film/new-approaches-to-documentary-from-japan/

An interview with Kaori Oda on her new film Cenote via MUBI Notebook →

Fresh from her International Premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Kaori Oda interview with Kaori Oda on her new film Cenote via MUBI Notebook

Read the full interview HERE:

https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/toward-a-common-tenderness-an-interview-with-kaori-oda

Berlinale 2020 - Las Niñas debut feature of Pilar Palomero →

via CineEuropa:

BERLINALE 2020 Generation

Review: Las Niñas

BERLINALE 2020: With sensitivity, Pilar Palomero’s first work recreates the repressive atmosphere which far too many Spanish girls grew up within towards the end of the 20th century

For those more familiar with showy and ultra-fast commercial cinema, Schoolgirls might prove a disappointing watch: the action is minimal, depicting the characters’ day-to-day activities, such as doing homework, painting their lips for the first time or playing during breaktime. But there’s a subtext behind the description of this routine; a background and an intent which reveal a contradictory country which has continued to teach its future women to accept acquired machismo, sexual repression and all-important conformism.

Celia, the film’s protagonist (the magnificent acting revelation Andrea Fandos), is the daughter of a single mother (played by Natalia de Molina). She’s growing up and at the very moment her body begins to change, doubts of every kind start to alter her thinking. She’s no longer comfortable with the lies and silences her mother metes out every time she asks questions, about her origins, for example. The times are changing too, even if her environment – especially the convent school where she’s studying – seems to be doing everything possible to stave off the inevitable. But a new friend will breathe fresh air into her personal prison.

Schoolgirls opens with a magnificent scene, and its closing shot contrasts perfectly with the first. Between the two, we accompany this young woman in her insomnia, doubts and anxieties, with the camera ever glued to Celia’s gaze. And it won’t be hard for those who grew up in the eighties and nineties to recognise themselves or their friends, sisters or neighbours in Schoolgirls’ various scenes.

As we watch the film, titles such as Carlos Saura’s legendary film Cría cuervos or the recent Ojos Negros [+], by the duo Marta Lallana and Ivet Castelo, spring to mind; works which display the same freshness, talent and authenticity as Palomero’s offering. But above all, this director’s first full-length film underscores the crucial point that, much like the course taken by her central character, it has only been through individual rebellion that a generation of women have been able to fully fulfil themselves, and that they are now in a position to question that time which is thankfully in the past.

Schoolgirls is an Inicia Films, BTeam Prods and Las Niñas Majicas A.I.E. production. International sales are entrusted to Film Factory Entertainment.

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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<セノーテプロジェクト>

​メキシコユカタン半島北部に点在するセノーテと呼ばれる泉。
樹の根が這う水中洞窟、その縦穴の上から太陽の光が水の中に降る。

生贄として捧げられた者たち。

​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。

現地リサーチ(撮影)からインスピレーションをえて制作される映画、映像インスタレーション、ペインティングを横断するプロジェクト

-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

​-2019年1月~3月　長編映画作品『セノーテ』編集
-2019年4月　    　長編映画作品『セノーテ』完成

 
2019年6月16日　愛知県美術館・愛知芸術文化センターにて『セノーテ』初上映

​2019年10月　山形国際ドキュメンタリー映画祭アジア千波万波部門にて上映

​2020年1月　ロッテルダム国際映画祭にて上映

​2020年2月　恵比寿映像祭にて上映