INPUT is a space for mentoring and assessment for projects in development that is co-organized by Fundación Luis Seoane andl (S8) Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico, where three artists will have access to three internationally renowned professionals from the fields of cinema and arts, to discuss their projects, from the writing stage and development to distribution.
INPUT Coordination: Gonzalo Veloso.
Pamela Biénzobas
Chilean-French advisor, film critic and journalist. She has been writing about cinema for two decades, collaborating with magazines and books in several countries. She has working evaluating and advising projects, as well as proposing candidates for funds and international programs such as Abycine Lanza, Torino Film Lab, Rawi (Jordania) or Bellagio Center (Rockefeller Foundation), among many others. She also works in festivals such as Rotterdam, Gijón and Berlinale’s Forum.
María Morata
Curator and researcher. She has developed artistic projects and audiovisual programs for different museums, festivals and artistic institutions (Arsenal-Institut for Film and Videoart Berlin, CCCB, MACBA and Centre Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona, Sterischer Herbst Graz, Impakt Festival Utrecht, Intermediae Matadero and La Casa Encendida, among others). Member of the selection comitee of Berlinale Shorts at Berlinale, Dok Leipzig and Kasseler DokFest.
María Palacios Cruz
María Palacios Cruz is Coordinator of the Film Programming Studies at Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola (San Sebastián), Deputy Director in LUX (London) and co-founder of the publishing company The Visible Press. She is also programmer of the festivals Punto de Vista (Pamplona) and Courtisane in Belgium. She has just published an antology of the writings by Lis Rhodes under the title Telling Invents Told (2019).
CRÍAS, by Xiana do Teixeiro
Film-revelation, that brings into light the occult object that is the secret diary of teenager women. The films unfolds in a fragmented self narrative that questions all the other narratives about the feminine youth experience. The lives of women are drawn like a discontinuous process, something that, to move forward, needs to be denied. Crías is a film book, a manifesto and a secret.
Xiana do Teixeiro (Walkie Talkie Films) is a filmmaker and a researcher. She works from ecofeminism about the construction and social meaning of gender and the Anthropocene’s specist narrative. She is the author behind Tódalas mulleres que coñezo (2018), Somos Plaga (2017) and Carretera de una sola dirección (2016), among many other projects.
BOMBARDEAR LAS NUBES, by María Isabel Costa Alfaro
Short film /expanded cinema. Bombing the clouds primarily means the act of denaturalizing an element. Departing from that premise, the project deals with two concepts of denaturalization to create among them a poetic analogy in which the process of bombing clouds finds its correspondence in the forced migration that today’s Venezuela goes through.
María Isabel Costa Alfaro, Social Communication Degree, with a Mention in Audiovisual Arts (Caracas, Venezuela). She lives in Spain since 2017, where she has gone deeper in her studies inside the fields of documentary and avant garde cinema.
EL MÉDICO CURA, de Maider Fernández Iriarte
El médico cura is an audiovisual diptych that explores the relationships between religion, science and the sacred in Lourdes Sanctuary. How can science strengthen the belief in miracles?
Maider Fernández Iriarte (Donostia, 1988) is an artist and filmmaker. Her works have been shown and recognized in a number of festivals and art centers, like San Sebastián, Seville European Film Festival, FICXixón, Málaga, Zinebi, DA2, IVAM and L’Alternativa, in some of them as part of the collective Las chicas de Pasaik. She is currently finishing her first feature film, Las letras de Jordi, winner of the Ikusmira Berriak Award in 2017 in San Sebastián Film Festival.
