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GOES TO CANNES
2017
LOS CABOS
GOES TO CANNES
2017
Los Cabos International Film Festival in partnership with March
du Film, Festival de Cannes is proud to present for the second time
in a row, four Mexican films in progress from some of the countrys
most promising filmmakers.
SCREENING
SUNDAY, MAY 21ST
PALAIS K
LEVEL 4 PALAIS DES FESTIVALS
14:00 16:00 HRS.
3. MI HERMANO / MY BROTHER
15 minutes
Directors statement
Im filming this documentary because I found in The Panchitos an honest truth about life. They are border
decadent characters who are sensitive and passionate about their lives even though they barely have anything.
They cling to their past and these memories dignify them. I found honesty and hope in them even in the middle
of their terrible life conditions, they found something to carry on and struggle to improve their lives. They were
a criminal organization that terrified the middle and high classes in Mexico City in the mid 80s. They kidnapped
buses and robbed shops to get booze and food for their poor neighbours, still there is no record about them.
Now, more than thirty years later, they are paying the consequences either in prison, hospital or in the graveyard.
This characters I found keep clinging to that past and to their convictions just to get through their lives.
PANCHITOS
Production company Tatiana Graullera
Directors statement
I believe that human beings are ever more distanced from nature, to the point that we have stopped
considering ourselves a species within the animal kingdom; we see ourselves as separate from any
ecosystem. With The Second Coming I seek to make evident the complexity of human relationships
presented through the lens of the laws of survival in the animal world. The most basic instincts, we think
weve left behind as weve evolved, are still latent, especially in the way we relate to other human beings
and in the constant search for a mate. My research of falconry for over 20 years has led me to understand
the attraction a person can develop for a bird of prey, to the point that a symbiotic relationship is
generated. This project is based on the experiences of falconers who thanks to their birds manage to find
meaning in their lives and operate within the structures imposed by society as well as visually exploring
the excessive growth of Mexico City and the repercussions this has on the lives of its inhabitants. The
Second Coming will explore the lives of three real characters who practice falconry and depend on it as if
it were an anxiolytic in order to face their harsh reality.
segundo
Production company Tatiana Graullera
The Second Coming intimately Current status Advanced shooting stage Miguel Caldern, (Mexico City 1971) works in Tatiana Graullera is an independent producer with
explores the lives of three Pending steps Finishing shooting, editing and post-production various mediums such as photography, writing, special interest in authorial and personal artistic
falconers and how their Goals To find funding to complete shooting and finish experimental film and video. He was co-founder proposals of both documentaries and feature films.
birds help them survive their of the non-profit art space, La Panadera, which Graullera produced, among other films, A Secret
film by the end of 2017. To connect with sales agents,
harsh reality, researching the helped promote new art tendencies in Latin World by Gabriel Mario premiered in Berlinale
possibilities of the connective distributors and festival programmers. America, starting in 1994. His exhibitions include 62, and her most recent documentary, Guerrero
relationship with animals that Estimated budget 159, 816 USD The Sao Paolo Biennial, Museo Tamayo, The by Ludovic Bonleux premiered in Ambulante 12
can exist beyond words. Money in place 63,924 USD Yokohama Triennial. this year. She is currently producing A Wild Stream
by Nuria Ibaez and Gunpowder Seeds by Arturo
Gonzlez Villaseor.
Contact information:
Tatiana Graullera
+52 1 55 27374052
tatiana.graullera@gmail.com
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Directors statement
How to trust in new bonds of affection when others in the past have already failed? Alexey, a child who is not
fully aware of what happened in his past, but whose emotional memory is overwhelming, opens new horizons
for bringing value and meaning to life. His vital drive to transform himself is an early trait of maturity that calls
for sharing. His body and dance, which are Alexeys refuge, are the elements that allow his strength to come
forth. This film explores the relationship between two brothers, who constantly trust and mistrust the solidity of
their bonds. At the same time it explores the relationship of a young artist, Alexey, with his only weapon and his
only home: his body. I rely more on showing the condition of abandonment in the daily life of these children and
focusing on the dilemmas it inflicts upon their relationships; only then it is possible to touch the orphanhood we
all bear inside as humans. Years ago, I centered my attention on Alexeys motivation in looking after his brother
Mateo. I see this relationship, which I have followed for years, as the purest manifestation of affection: the
elected brotherhood, the shared orphanhood.
HERMANO
Alana Simes, Alejandro Durn
Production company Cinematrpodos /
Pimienta Films / Gavilan Cine
MY BROTHER
Genre Documentary
Country Mexico
Estimated Length 70 min
Directors Bio PRODUCERs Bio
Language Spanish / Russian
Alexey was born in Russia where Current status Post-production Alana Simes has filmed several and awarded Nicols Celis, founder of Pimienta Films, is a
he was adopted by Gabriela, a Pending steps Sound mix, music clearance short films as Dual-Me, Marti, Free Taxi and Mexican producer who has gained a reputation for
single woman. Later, the family From Wine To The Arctic. She was International working on original projects of high artistic content
Goals To complete financing. To find an international
adopted another child. Doomed Manager at DOCMA Documentary Film and great impact. He has worked with major
festival to premiere in.
from the start by abandonment, Association of Madrid and Co-creator of the directors including Jonas Cuarn (screenwriter
mother and children struggle Estimated budget 200,000 USD cultural event 3XDOC CREATORS MEETING. of the acclaimed film Gravity), Amat Escalante
everyday to build reciprocal bonds Money in place 160,000 USD Currently she is finishing her feature documentary (winner Cannes Film Festival Best Director award
of trust. Despite the siblings My Brother, produced by Pimienta Films. She for Heli), and Tatiana Huezo (awarded with the
internal crises, their shared sense is also developing Third Act, her new film and Best Documentary Fenix Award for Tempestad).
of orphanhood is also the key to Contact information: Mexican Dream, a documentary TV series, both He is currently in post-production for Alfonso
their strength; and the way they Nicols Celis produced by Cinematpodos. Cuarns new film.
navigate the world is through their +52 1 55 56153925
mutual support. nicolas@pimientafilms.com
www.pimientafilms.com
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Directors statement
This project sprang from my fascination with Mexico City and my obsession with the human body. For me this
city is like a diseased entity, that pathologically keeps existing without direction, nor destiny; a weary place
yet ready to explode, violent and tender, cruel and funny, heartless and full of compassion. Ive seen almost
supernatural things here, everyone adapts to the city, if you dont youre dead, so I began imagining the existence
of a changing entity, maybe an essence that slips through the shadows and keeps a big secret, a hex, a condition
that condemns him to be alone and aside; but still capable of falling in love. I like to imagine the human body as
the last frontier, the end of my senses and my physical existence, the shell that contains my chaos. Ive always
fantasized with changing bodies for a day, to feel and see from the inside of another skin, other eyes. All those
fantasies came together in this project. This film had no script. I wrote a fifteen-page story as a blueprint to
begin a search into improvisation, pushing my own ways to make cinema. For me this film is a crazy and intimate
letter to my own obsessions and to the city that I hate and love equally.
MARAVILLA
Production company UnMundo