Lisbon, September 20th 2024
The projects that will take part in the 6th edition of the RAW: Arché→Work Residencies programme have been announced, in the context of Doclisboa and the Madrid Márgenes festival, an initiative of Apordoc – Associação Portuguesa pelo Documentário and Cine en Ruta (Spain).
Marea roja, by Natalia Labaké (Argentina); Las palabras, by Paolo Tizón (Peru); and La calle de las luciérnagas, by Juan Álvarez (Uruguay, Spain) are those selected in the Creation area. Buti, by Marc Torres (Spain); Olhares eróticos: Crítica feminista diante do sexual no cinema brasileiro, by Barbara Bello (Brazil); and La educación sentimental en el cine de Lourdes Portillo, by Arantxa Luna (Mexico) were the chosen proposals from the submitted works for Critic and Research.
RAW is a creative development and training programme aimed at independent feature film projects at different stages of production, as well as young researchers and critics in the field of non-fiction cinema from Latin America, Spain, Portugal and Italy. This year’s edition will take place between October 20th and November 30th.
The programme includes activities such as workshops, individual mentoring sessions, project presentation sessions, meetings with industry experts and networking. During the residency period, participants will have the opportunity to work on and deepen their projects under the mentorship of film professionals such as editor and director Patrícia Saramago and researcher Stefanie Baumann.
All the selected projects will receive intensive support from the ARCHÉ programme (Doclisboa’s project development laboratory) and MÁRGENES/WORK (Márgenes’ programme to support film talent and audiovisual creation), as well as during the artistic residency that takes place in Lisbon between the two events.
This year, in addition to participating in ARCHÉ during Doclisboa, the artistic residency in Lisbon and the participation in MÁRGENES/WORK, the residents will also take part in the international seminar Doc’s Kingdom which, like the Arché programme, is organized by Apordoc – Associação pelo Documentário.
The organization of the residency programme stresses the importance of the project, stating that ‘RAW continues to consolidate itself as a creative space and a key platform for new talents in Ibero-American cinema, particularly for proposals with a strong artistic and authorial vision that is coherent with the times we live in.’
SELECTED PROJECTS
CREATION
Marea roja | Natalia Labaké, Argentina
Las palabras | Paolo Tizón, Perú
La calle de las luciérnagas | Juan Álvarez, Uruguai, Espanha
CRITIC AND RESEARCH
Buti I Marc Torres, Espanha
Olhares eróticos: Crítica feminista diante do sexual no cinema brasileiro I Barbara Bello, Brasil
La educación sentimental en el cine de Lourdes Portillo I Arantxa Luna, México
IBERO-AMERICAN TALENT
The selection includes some of the emerging talents of new Ibero-American cinema:
In Marea roja, Natalia Labaké – a director whose works have been screened at various festivals, including the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR) and the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata – tackles political, social and environmental themes from a scientific investigation in 1990s Argentina. The audiovisual archive of Hugo, a marine biologist who disappeared during the investigation, serves as a link between a hopeful past and a dystopian present, marked by the precariousness and fragility of institutions. Dissolving the barriers between reality and fiction, the film tries to rescue a collective memory from a world where libertarian policies seek to erase the past.
With Las palabras, Peruvian Paolo Tizón – whose Vino la noche premiered at the Karlovy Vary Festival, winning the Special Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize in the ‘Next’ section – presents a hybrid account of the violent form of Christian evangelisation, where modern forms of spirituality and religion in contemporary Peru collide.
La calle de las luciérnagas, by Juan Álvarez, offers a reflection on the subjective time of intimacy. Marked by loss and love, the director weaves together fragments of stories in a game of connections that link the time we want with the time we think we’ve lost. Based on the poetic image of fireflies by Pasolini, who in 1975 wrote an article in which the disappearance of these insects was a metaphor for the social and political change his native Italy was going through, this film explores the suggestive power of personal time and the relationship between dreams and reality.
In the area of critic and research, Arantxa Luna, a Mexican screenwriter and film critic, is taking part in the programme with her project La educación sentimental en el cine de Lourdes Portillo, which, based on an analysis of the formal aspects of the Mexican filmmaker’s work, reflects on the practice of contemporary Latin American documentary cinema; Spain’s Marc Torres Vallverdú, with Buti, which explores the relationship between filmmakers Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet and the village of the same name in Tuscany, relating their cinematographic practice to regional history, literature and local theatre traditions, with which they have established a permanent dialogue; and Brazilian critic, programmer and audiovisual director Barbara Bello, who revises, in her project Olhares eróticos: feminist criticism in the face of the sexual in Brazilian cinema, from a gender perspective, the heterogeneous erotic gazes present in Brazilian cinema of the 1970s and 80s.
A UNIQUE PROGRAMME
RAW is an innovative creative development and training programme focused on authorial audiovisual projects, with a special focus on non-fiction and experimental projects. It also has a programme dedicated to training young researchers and non-fiction film critics, which aims to promote dialogue between research and contemporary audiovisual practices.
Presenting itself as a unique initiative where creation, research and critical thinking coexist with the professionalization of the sector, RAW stimulates the artistic development of projects, promotes the sharing of knowledge and fosters the interrelationship between production and research through a myriad of activities. In addition, it facilitates contact with professionals in the sector, in a networking logic, favoring both the access of projects to the market and film co-production between Ibero-American countries.
In previous editions, RAW Creation was attended, among others, by Argentinian María Aparicio (winner of the La Casa Encendida Audiovisual Creation Award in 2019, with Sobre las nubes, and whose new film Las cosas indefinidas took part in FID Marseille this year), Agustina Comedi (selected at the IDFA, BAFICI and Mar del Plata festivals and winner of a Silver Condor from the Argentine Film Critics Association) and Natalia Garrayalde (Esquirlas, presented at numerous international festivals); Bolivian Diego Mondaca (recipient of the Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund and director of the film Chaco, shown at several international festivals); Uruguayan Álex Piperno (whose films have been seen at festivals such as Cannes, Berlinale and New Directors/New Films); Dominican Nelson Carlos de los Santos (selected at Locarno, FID Marseille, New York Film Festival and Mar del Plata); Panamanian Ana Tejera (whose film Panquiaco premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival); Peruvian Diego Bedoya Abad; Spanish Alberto Dexeus; Spain-based Dominican Génesis Valenzuela (winner ex aequo of the MÁRGENES/WORK 2022 Best Project in Development Award for Tres Balas, winner of Open Doors Locarno and selected for the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum at Zinemaldia 2023); experienced Spanish filmmaker Pilar Monsell; Brazilians Pedro Maia de Brito and Ralph Antunes; and Mexican Eduardo Makoszay.
In past years, the following names were selected in the research and critic category: Miguel Zozaya (Spain), Lucía Salas (Argentina) – who are now part of the Punto de Vista Festival programme team -, Cristina Rubio (Spain), Pedro Tinen (Brazil), Nicolás Carrasco (Peru), Adrián García Prado (Spain), Francisco Míguez (Brazil), Karina Solórzano (Mexico), Bibiana Rojas (Colombia), Salvador Amores (Mexico), Mariana Souza (Brazil), Lautaro García Candela (Argentina), Lorenna Rocha (Brazil) and Alonso Aguilar (Costa Rica).
Every year, a heterogeneous group of professionals from the sector – artists, filmmakers, researchers and cultural managers – is responsible for monitoring and advising the projects in a mentoring format. Over the course of five editions, industry personalities such as Andrés Duque, Lola Mayo, Paz Garciadiego, Matías Piñeiro, Manuel Asín, Sonia García López, Elena Oroz, Virgina García del Pino, João Salaviza, Mercedes Álvarez, Paula Astorga, Pamela Bienzobas, Santi Fillol, Luciano Barisone, Cintia Gil, Chema González, Gustavo Fontán, Beli Martínez, Renée Nader Messora, Nicolas Pereda, Vasco Pimentel, Helena Girón, Tiago Hespanha, Federico Windhausen, and Gudula Mainzolt were part of that group.
SUPPORT
RAW is a project promoted by Apordoc – Associação Portuguesa pelo Documentário and by Cine en Ruta (Spain), with the support of the Ibermedia Programme. MÁRGENES/WORK also has the support of the creative and mobility aid programmes run by Madrid City Council and La Casa Encendida, while ARCHÉ has the support of ICA – Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual.