WORK IN PROGRESS
THE JUMP
Feature documentary
In the summer of 2021, Scott came to Barcelona from New York. He came with his wife Kaili and daughter Lucy. They arrive at the Montjuïc Municipal Swimming Pool. Once inside, he wants to jump from the 10-meter platform. The person in charge refuses, but after talking for a while, he allows him access. Scott climbs slowly. When he gets to the top, he does a vertical, hesitates a bit and, finally, he dives.
Scott Donie, of the U.S. team, was a silver medalist in the 10-meter platform at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Since then, now 30 years ago, he had not returned to this pool that saw him triumph.
THE BAND THAT SHOULDN’T EXIST
Series and feature film
In March 2020, three out-of-work musicians in their twenties go into lockdown in Barcelona, Spain. As they consider everything that they have lost, and just for fun, they begin to riff on their terrace using whatever they find around the house as instruments: a mop bucket, a toy keyboard, an old guitar and pots of all kinds. One by one, they upload their songs to YouTube, and quickly become an internet sensation. Creating a new song every day, pretty soon they have a record deal with Sony Music, sold out concerts and a world tour planned for 2021. We are following our three unlikely heroes as they travel on this remarkable journey, from a terrace to the stages of the World.
Coproduction: Icon International and Minifilms TV
WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
TV program
Entertainment program based on the conversation between a hairdresser and his client, in all cases, a small client between 7 and 15 years old, who while having their hair cut and getting funny looks in front of the mirror, uninhibited themselves and explain what worries them the most, what makes them happy and what excites them. The focus of the chapters is on the little ones, they are the ones who explain the stories to us. The mirror reflects everything that happens in the room, where in the foreground we have the children and in a second and more discreet plane the hairdresser who acts as a conductor of the conversation and makes it more enjoyable. This interpersonal relationship between child and hairdresser does not end until the little ones are completely satisfied with the result of their new hair look.
In each of the chapters, several stories of different boys and girls are interwoven. We get to know what is going on in the heads of the 5 little ones, all of them with a problem that characterizes them; lives with new forms of family structure, bullying problems, illnesses, education, death, the weather, and an infinite range of issues in which children and society in general are involved. Although the protagonists are minors, the target audience of this program is the whole audience in general, so that the whole family can sit on the sofa and be entertained.
Directed by: Marta Palacín
Executive Producer: Oriol Gispert
BRUNO'S ODYSSEY
Feature documentary
Bruno Hortelano is the fastest man in Spain. In 2016 he became European champion and was an Olympic semifinalist in the 200m plain. Then the unexpected happened: a car accident destroyed his hand and caused him serious injuries. After several operations and depression, he got out of bed with one goal in mind: to win gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. He begins what will be the most epic and important race of his life. But the winds are blowing hard and against him. A worldwide pandemic, the games are postponed, more injuries, another strong depression,... This is a journey against the clock and against himself that starts from Ithaca towards Olympus. This is his personal Odyssey.
Direction and script: Oriol Gispert
Director of photography: Oriol Bosch Castellet
BARBARIC VERSIONS
“LES PETITES FORMIGUETES” (9’)
Barbara Van Hoestenberghe is Flemish, from Belgium. With her tape recorder and her van, she travels around Catalonia looking for popular children's songs. In this way she meets people, young and old, who teach her the songs and then she, with her unmistakable style and accompanied by great musicians, performs her barbarian version.
In this chapter we will discover the song of Las Pequeñas Hormigas:
Mrs. Carme was a teacher and taught this song to her pupils. Now, at the age of 90, she sings it for Barbara from her home, in Báscara.
Carme explains to Barbara that the song has five stanzas but she doesn't know them. Barbara begins to search. She hears a man whistling at her at a bar counter, chases him with the van but he escapes her. She arrives in the small village of Pontós, and there an ant shows her the way to find the rest of the stanzas. Antonia, Antonio's wife, introduces him to the huge antennas of her husband's radio, Antonio, a former amateur radio truck driver who will make a call on the station. A little girl answers and sings the missing verses to Barbara, and now we're all set for the BARBARA VERSION of “Les Petites Formiguetes”!
“MUNTANYES DEL CANIGÓ“ (11’)
Barbara Van Hoestenberghe is Flemish, from Belgium. With her tape recorder and her van, she travels around Catalonia looking for popular children's songs. In this way she meets people, young and old, who teach her the songs and then she, with her unmistakable style and accompanied by great musicians, performs her barbarian version.
In this chapter we will discover the song "Muntanyes del Canigó":
Barbara has been driving for some time and there is a snowy mountain that she keeps seeing and that is stealing her heart.
Through the van's radio she hears an extraordinary melody, it's called "Muntanyes del Canigó". She meets a girl on the road who reveals to her that the mountain she sees is none other than the Canigó.
Barbara, excited, decides to look for someone to sing the song and remembers that on the radio they have said that there is a village, Riudaura, where the next morning starts a festival where people sing from the balconies!
After spending the night in the middle of the mountain, she sets off for Riudaura. There she meets a man who sings a new version of the Canigó song from the balcony, followed by three women who come out on the balcony below, and finally another man three houses further on. Barbara records them all. She has it, tomorrow she wants to climb the Canigó to get inspired and make the BARBARA VERSION of "Muntanyes del Canigó"!
“EL CANT DELS OCELLS” (12')
Barbara Van Hoestenberghe is a young Belgian woman fascinated by Catalan children's folk songs. With her van and armed with a tape recorder and an electric guitar, Barbara travels the territory in search of the most authentic versions that grandparents and grandchildren can teach her. On this route she meets some very interesting and curious people. After recording the versions, she will spice them up with her unmistakable style and make a new version with a very special video clip.