DOCUMENTARIES
ISABEL'S INDEPENDENCE
Isabel, 58, like many other Spaniards, migrated to Edinburgh looking for a new opportunity. After her business in Spain collapsed following years of financial crisis, she left her husband behind with one goal in mind: saving enough money to recover. However, she did not count on so many obstacles: Brexit, the Covid-19 pandemic, her language barrier and a growing joint and muscle pain caused by her physical jobs.
She cleans in the mornings and delivers in the evenings, and when she gets home she has five hours to sleep. Isabel wants to be part of the Scottish culture, but how can she when she has no time to learn English, no time to socialise and when her body aches so much at the end of the day?
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Inma de Reyes
Nelisa Alcalde
Noe Mandelle
Ona Bartroli
Tom Drew
Jonathan Fyre
Ian Ballatyne
L O L A
Lola is an observational film about the break-up of a family taking the unique the perspective of their beloved pet dog, an English Pointer named Lola. As the family teeter towards a breaking point, we’ll draw perspective on the modern domestic, the actuality of a failed marriage and the implications for the familial unit, the whole while questioning the role of pets have in a typical English family.
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Miranda Carter-Watson
Jamie Macdonald
Ona Bartroli
Ross Wilkes-Houghton
Saul Bragman
Francis Qureshi
A E O N
A cinematic ride through the inner-wokings of fist life, the diversity of the animal kingdom, and the organized chaos of the modern world.
Aeon is a film about where we come from, all we have been, and where we are going.
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Nathan Small
Ona Bartroli
Ben Goodall
Thomas Ross Fitzsimons
Liz Glennard
SHORT FILM : 24 MIN
1 - O
On the 6th September 2017, the Catalan regional government called an independence referendum. Despite being banned by the Spanish government, the 1st October with rain lashing down and in an extremely hostile atmosphere, thousands of people went out to vote. “1-O” is the story of the day of what happened in 5 of the polling stations in what both a terrible yet unforgettable day which saw more than two million people fight pacifically for their right to decide their own future.
TV FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : 38 MIN
PRODUCTION COMPANY: MEDIAPRO
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Lluís Arcarazo
Bernat Elias
Ariadna Terribas
Xuban Intxausti
Ona Bartroli
Xavier Capellas
THANK YOU AND PLEASE TAKE CARE
As the zeitgeist of our current world moves towards conservation and protecting nature, we must break the walls of disassociation between us and the animals that make up our world. What makes us similar? What is shared between us? By following the life cycle of its three subjects humans, chimpanzees, and elephants, guided by abstract narrative and creative editing devices, this film hopes to encourage conversation and conservation for its audience.
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Daniel Stuart
Ona Bartroli
Yin Lee
Joao Fonte
Francis Qureshi