How did you get here? Case study of the international female film directors participating in the festival
Presentation: Diego Mas Trelles, Festival co-director
Date and time: Thursday, Nov.7th, 7.30 p.m.
Venue: Auditorio del Espacio Fundación Telefónica. Calle de Fuencarral, 3
Tickets: Free admission with prior registration through the website. www.espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com
Type of activity: Round table.
Participants:
1. Anna van der Heide - Director of the feature film Rocco & Sjuul, The Netherlands.
2. Elisabeth Scharang - Director of the feature film Wald, Austria.
3. Fernanda Valadez - Co-director of the feature film Sujo, Mexico.
4. Nina Marin - Director of the feature film Tierra Quebrá, Colombia.
Facilitator: Elena Manrique, film director and producer; member of the Festival's Programming Committee.
Info extra:
- Activity in English, with simultaneous translation, sign language interpretation and streaming.
- Activity organized with the collaboration of the Austrian Cultural Forum and DAMA, Audiovisual Media Copyright.
Anna van der Heide
Anna van der Heide made her debut in 2011 with the acclaimed children's film Brammetje Baas. Since then, a large number of successful youth productions have followed, including Merry Christmas, Master Frog, Rudy's Big Christmas Show and Sisters. In Anna's work, the detailed direction of the actors is striking, and the humour and perspective should never be missing. In recent years, many productions for adults have followed: Series Dirty Lines and The A-word and the Poli. But also the films De Liefhebbers and Rocco & Sjuul. Anna is currently working on the series Haantjes for Netflix. In October, her new children's series 'Hein' will premiere at the Cinekid festival, about a boy who can see dead people and helps them to finish life on earth in the right way.
ELISABETH SCHARANG
ELISABETH SCHARANG lives and works in Vienna as a director, screenwriter, journalist and radio presenter. She is self-taught in her profession and has been working as a freelance feature and documentary film director since 2001, mainly for cinema productions. The cinema documentary OCTOPUS ALARM celebrated its world premiere at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival and is still one of the most relevant documentaries on the subject of intersexuality. MY DEAR REPUBLIC was successfully screened in competition in the documentary section in Karlovy Vary; it reopens a piece of Austrian contemporary history through the cinematic encounter with Nazi euthanasia survivor Friedrich Zawrel. After IN ANOTHER LIFETIME, in 2015 JACK was the director‘s second feature film to celebrate its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival on the Grande Piazza; it was shown shortly afterwards at the Toronto Film Festival. Filming for the feature film WALD, loosely based on Doris Knecht‘s bestseller, took place in autumn 2021. Elisabeth Scharang is currently working on a documentary film about structural violence against women and the reasons for femicides. For #HowToStopFemicides she is shooting in over ten countries, featuring activists and experts.
Elisabeth Scharang is active in film politics at FC-Gloria and in the collective dieRegisseur*innen and supports women in the field of film directing and screenwriting as a mentor.
Fernanda Valadez
Graduate of the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (Film Training Center). Her short film De este mundo received the award for Best Short Film at the Guanajuato Film Festival and the CANACINE Award in 2011. Her thesis short film, 400 maletas, was selected and awarded at various film festivals and forums. Notable among them is its selection for the Editing Studio at Berlinale Talents 2013. In 2015, it was nominated for the Ariel Award for Best Fiction Short Film and for the Student Oscar in the foreign category.
In 2014, together with other filmmakers, she founded the company EnAguas Cine, which developed and produced the feature film Los días más oscuros de nosotras, directed by Astrid Rondero. This project received funding and support from FONCA, IMCINE, the Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund, the Script Station at Berlinale Talents, the Tribeca Film Institute, the Women in Film Finishing Fund, among others. The film premiered at the Los Cabos International Film Festival, where it received a special mention from the jury.
Fernanda also collaborates with Chulada Films, producing Dalia Reyes' second documentary feature, Ráfagas Serranas.
In 2020, she premiered her debut feature Sin Señas Particulares, which won the Audience Award and Best Screenplay in the World Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival. It also won the Horizontes Latinos Award and the Spanish Cooperation Award at the San Sebastián Film Festival, and was nominated and won the Ariel Award in 2021 for Best Director.
In 2024, she returns to the Sundance Film Festival to present Sujo, co-directed with Astrid Rondero, this time winning the award for Best International Film.
Nina Marin
Nina Paola Marin Diaz, born in Valledupar in 1982, Master in Dramatic Art, studies in Direction and Production of Video Cinema and TV at the Universidad Europea del Atlántico, advanced in script and direction of actors with the Meisner technique at the ECTV - San Antonio de los Baños / Cuba and Lawyer, mother of 3 children, with a career of more than 20 years, Her creative process has been influenced by Gabriel García Márquez, Juan Rulfo, Federico García Lorca and Isabel Allende. As for cinema, she is an admirer of Jane Campion, Francis Ford Coppola and Andréi Tarkovsky. Tierra Quebrá is her debut feature, Soy Múcura (second feature film to be released soon), plus 11 short films.
