This month we interview Masih Sharif, filmmaker, and film tourism expert. He was born in Iran, and now he lives in Barcelona. The first time he came to Spain was in 2007. He has lived in Mallorca, where he had studied tourism and environmental economics. He is one of the producers of Javier Tolentino’s Tehran Blues and has recently won the prize in the SpotSport 2022 competition of the BCN Sports Film Festival.
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11/29/2021This month we interview Vinyet Escobar, a costume designer and stylist who has worked on films such as The Laws of the Border, Libertad, The Days to Come, Anchor and Hope and series such as Perfect Life or To Kill the Father. We talk with her about her profession.
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10/28/2021This month we interview Lucia Faraig, a photographer specialized in film and still image, who has worked on films like Gun City, Black Bread, Summer 1993, The Last Days, Sunday’s Illness, The Pact, The Impossible, Mediterráneo and The Skin I Live In, as well as in television series such as Perfect Life, Félix and El día de mañana. Many of them were shot in our city. We talk with her about her work.
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09/29/2021This month we interview Paco Rebollo, president of the ReBross Foundation which, for 28 years, has published the specialized film magazine Versión Original. The publication devotes the month of September to our city and to films which have passed through Barcelona.
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07/26/2021This month we interview María Zafra, a programmer of the International Women’s Film Festival. The Festival created a necessary and very important space to reflect on and see films made by women, a space which did not previously exist in Barcelona. Next year will be its 30th anniversary. We talk with her about the festival in general and about this year’s edition which has just passed its halfway point.
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06/28/2021This month we interview Paloma Zapata, a director and producer with her own company, La Fábrica Naranja. She has successfully directed the musical documentaries Peret, My Name Is Rumba and Casamance: The Soundtrack of a Journey.
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05/26/2021This month we interview Miquel Àngel Pintanel, documentarian specialized in photographic archive at the Filmoteca de Cataluña (Film Archive of Catalonia) and curator of the exhibition "The keys to the still image: Spanish cinema in the 40s", which you can see at the Filmoteca until 13 June. We talk with him about the exhibition, about his profession and in particular about still images.
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04/27/2021This month we interview Laura Herrero Garvín from Toledo, director of the documentary La Mami which was released last month in our cinemas.
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03/11/2021This month we interview Marla Jacarilla, a visual artist, writer and film critic. We talk with her about her relationship with audiovisual, but also about La Escocesa, which forms part of Barcelona’s Network of Art Factories, where Marla has a residency.
