The Rodando for Jaén Short-Term Contest comes to this tenth anniversary, supported by the success achieved in previous calls, with projects presented from all over Spain. Of the 30 works presented, eight were chosen and received a workshop and tutorials by the filmmakers Montxo Armendáriz and Pablo Berger, together with the producer Puy Oria. The fruit of this workshop is the short films that premiered in this special projection, which were shot at the beginning of June in different locations of our province and mobilized for the same 150 people.
Address: María Gutiérrez Amaro and Sebastián Reyes- Turner
Producer: María Gutiérrez Amaro
Script: María Gutiérrez Amaro
Photography: Mari Cobos
Music: Irene Tejero
Assembly: Elena Gutiérrez
Sound: Jean Hazet
Gender: Drama
Duration: 14 minutes
Location: Rus
Interpreters: Ana Ruiz (Pilar), M.ª Carmen Raya (Almudena), Concha López (Paula), Segundo Garrido (Pablo), Clara Nieto (Carmen) and Araceli Moreno (Luisa).
SINOPSIS:
The death of Socorro leads members of his family to meet again at his funeral and face challenges that persist from the past. Each of them, from their position in terms of age and gender, will process through the burial the end of the life of the loved one. A reflection on the duel, the family, the importance of tradition and a window to the rural custom of the villages of the countryside of Jaén.
Address and Script: Jesus Murciano and Jesus Gravan
Producers: Aitana Transmedia and Key Communication
Production address: Angela Sánchez
Photography: Gabriel Pinal
Music: José Javier Delgado
Assembly: Javier Marchante and Jesús Gravan
Sound: Carlos Ruíz
Gender: Drama
Duration: 12 minutes
Location: Santiago de Calatrava
Interpreters: Carmen Canivell (Bea), Salva Reina (Miguel), Carlos Aeituno (Paco) and Teresa Arbolí (godmother).
SINOPSIS:
Paco and Bea are about to get married. But Paco just found out that the wedding will have a guest who doesn't like him: a cousin of his wife, with whom she had a relationship in the past, so she's very upset. I'm a prisoner of jealousy, he's threatening not to get married and he's getting very violent. Bea's brother, Miguel, sent by the mother to see why it takes the bride to get to church, notes that something weird happens between the couple.
Address: Maria Monreal Otano
Producers: Cambur Productions and OneinKmillion
Script: María Gomez-Juárez
Production address: Beatriz Otano
Photography: Josu of Paul
Music: Manuel Quiroga, Salvador Valverde and Rafael de León
Assembly: Maria Monreal
Sound: Javier Asín
Gender: Drama
Duration: 15 minutes
Location: Lahiguera and Arjonilla
Interpreters: Virginia Nölting (María de la O), Rocio Molina (Lluvia), Nuria Nadim (Ana), Nicolás Montoya (Gregorio), Victor de la Fuente (Jesu),
SINOPSIS:
Maria de la O is a woman who has just sent and suffers from a Pica disorder that is manifested in her compulsive need to swallow whole olives. After assuming her husband's functions in the field, she will be forced by the task of collecting the olive. In the face of the refusal of the usual collaborators to work with her, Maria de la O will have to accept a group of unusual laborers.
Address and Script: José Carlos y Marta Jiménez Revuelta
Producers: Jioque Studio and Loklaro Productions.
Production address: Javier del Álamo
Photography: Alberto Cartagena Alonso and Pablo Barea Vera
Music: Ayrton Paul Bianco
Assembly: Alberto Cartagena Alonso and José Carlos Jiménez Revuelta
Direct sound: Pablo Nieto Rodríguez
Sonoro design: Jaime Osvaldo Ribera Santana
Gender: Drama
Duration: 12 minutes
Location: Villarodrigo
Interpreters: Cristina Mediero (Magdalena), José Chaves (Sancho), Candela Fernández (Belén), Antonio Estrada (Rafael) and Noel Sisan (JuanCaballo).
SINOPSIS:
In Sierra Magina there are creatures called Juanhoras, half human half equine. Magda, a girl with socialization problems, feeds these beings in exchange for roots to cure her mother. When his father, an obsessive hunter of Juanhoras, discovers him, he reacts with cruelty by further cooling the tense relationship with his daughter. Magda will do anything to have her father's appreciation.
Address: Carlos Zapata
Production address: Javier Castillo Martínez
Script: Adrián López Soler and Gonzalo G. Bauzá
Photography: Javier Gómez Parra
Assembly: Carlos Zapata
Sound: Daniel Dominguez
Gender: Drama
Duration: 15 minutes
Location: Aldeaquemada
Interpreters: Silvia Marty (Laia), Manuel Salas (Mario), Francisco Cerezo (Antonio)
SINOPSIS:
Laia makes a trip to the village where her father, Aldeaquemada, comes from. During his journey, he lives with a memory that feeds daily and seems unable to let go. When he arrived at the village, Laia met a brother of his father who he had never heard of. He and Laia will open the doors of their unknown family members; some delusional memories undrawn by the passage of time. Together they will reveal their feverish memories, which are in themselves fable and reality.
Address and Script: Ciro Puig Bonet and Arnau Capel
Production address: Maria Salafranca
Photography: Clara Borrell
Assembly: Susel Legon
Sound: Evelyn Santos
Gender: Comedy
Duration: 10 minutes
Location: Sabiote
Interpreters: Ana María Martínez Navarrete, Luisa Sánchez Moya, Juana Calvente Roa, Cleopatra Martos Campos, Antonio Crespo, Alfonso Majón de Dios, Francisco Juan Gómez, Miguel Utrera Ruiz, José Hidalgo, José Cécnica Morcillo, Manuela Herrera Molina, María Dolores Cobo, Gil Hidalgo Medina, Dolores Rúa Moro and Julio Aranda Roa.
SINOPSIS:
After a night of jolgorium, a group of elders returned to their village determined to follow the party. You'll have to remember where to go before I catch your daylight.
Address and Script: Lidia Esteban and Jesus Alarcón
Production address: Claudia Faubel
Photography: Rodrigo de Pablo
Music: Ariel McCleary, Jesus Alarcón and Lidia Esteban
Assembly: Jesus Alarcón
Sound: Francisco Delgado
Gender: Drama
Duration: 15 minutes
Location: Scary
Interpreters: Miriam Lorenzo (Alicia), Luisa Medina (Antonia), Cristóbal Guerrero Santisteban (Eustaquio), Quique Escobedo (Pedro), Esperanza Garcia-Maroto (Madre de Alicia) and Marisa Alarcón (Ana).
SINOPSIS:
Alicia, a 30-year-old urban girl, decides to start a new life in the rural world, specifically in her grandfather's old house, which she never met. When he arrived in the village, he had a conversation with the locals and began to settle in which he could be his new home. But soon he finds out he's got the wrong house: the house he was settling in is not his grandfather's. The true home of your family is in far worse, completely uninhabitable conditions. It is then that he decides to accept his own incongruence and continue the farce, settling in the building that best suits him, even if he does not belong to his family.
Address: Cristian Serrano Jiménez
Producer: The Penultimate Films and Cristina Gajete Gámix
Script: Claudia Faubel Sanchis
Production address: Claudia Faubel Sanchis
Photography: Daniel Moreno García
Music: Chico Pérez
Assembly: Cristian Serrano Jiménez
Sound: Victor Calet Cruz
Gender: Drama
Duration: 15 minutes
Location: Arjone
Interpreters: Andrea Haro Barrera (Amelia), Emecé Vega (Yvonne), María Prieto (Paula), José Manuel Bonillo (Jaime), Sergio Pérez (Marcos) and Sergio Molina (Jorge, waiter).
SINOPSIS:
Amelia's day begins in a routine and normal way, little by little, Amelia shows her most hidden obsessions, a set of disorders that torment every moment of her day. We see how Amelia survives that dark intimacy that does not show her close friends, that which scares her, that embarrasses her, and how she manages to deal with the suffering that these disorders give her.
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