DIRECTED BY DAN BARRERI
Spain
2022, 61 minutes
CROSSROADS speaks of art as a tool for transformation.
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The periphery of Cape Town, South Africa, is the epicenter of an inspiring journey through the work of the graffitti-rooted art collective Boa Mistura.
Along the way, urban art becomes the vehicle that connects the lives of a favela resident in São Paulo, a young man from the slum of Kibera, Kenya, a Mapuche indigenous woman in northern Chile, a Syrian refugee and a woman from a fishing village in the Dominican Republic.
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These small encounters through painting are the spark that ignites changes both in the neighbors of the communities and in the collective.
Produced by Monte Perdido
With the support of Air Europa
Original languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese and Kurdish
Subtitles: Spanish, English
Original score by Leiva
TRAJECTORY
VII FESTIVAL DE CINE DE SANTANDER 2023
Faro de Plata. Premio del público sección oficial óperas primas.
VII FESTIVAL DE CINE DE SANTANDER 2023
Faro Sostenibilidad sección oficial óperas primas.
32 FESTIVAL DE CINE DE MADRID 2023
Selected at the 32nd Madrid Film Festival / New Filmmakers Platform, in the Official Section of feature films.
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2023
Screening at the Marché du Film de Cannes 2023 as part of the FEEL SALES program.
20 DOCUMENTA MADRID 2023
Selected in the 20th edition of the DOCUMENTA MADRID festival, in the special screenings program.
ALCINE 51. FESTIVAL DE CINE DE ALCALÁ DE HENARES 2022
Selected in ALCINE 51. Alcalá de Henares Film Festival / Comunidad de Madrid 2022, in the ALCINE IMPACTA section.
IBERSERIES & PLATINO INDUSTRIA 2022
Screening in the "Screenings Platino Cine" section of the Iberseries & Platino Industria 2022 festival, held at the Matadero in Madrid.
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TECHNICAL TEAM
DAN BARRERI
(Alcalá de Henares, Spain. 1991)
Direction, script and editing
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Dan Barreri is a young Spanish audiovisual director.
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With a long career in the music video world, he has received the Independent Music Award for Best Music Video and a Vevo Award in 2015, the Audience Award at the MovieScreenPro Festival in Los Angeles in 2019 and a nomination for Telemundo's Latin America Music Awards in 2022.
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In 2018 he enters the world of documentaries with "Crossroads, the circular journey of Boa Mistura", his first feature film.
In 2021 he directed "Silvio Rodriguez con Diàkara", a short documentary that tells the story of the last album of the famous Cuban singer-songwriter.
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He has taught music video editing and directing at the TAI school, and has given workshops and seminars at the Madrid Film Institute, the Rey Juan Carlos University and the UZAR.
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FER TARANCO
(Madrid, Spain. 1991)
Director of photography and color grading.
Fer Taranco is a cinematographer from Madrid.
Tanned for more than a decade in the world of video music, advertising and fashion, he has worked for brands such as Versace or Bvlgari, media such as ICON or Puss Puss Magazine or the audiovisual platform Netflix.
"Crossroads, the circular journey of Boa Mistura" is his first documentary experience.
BOA MISTURA
Original idea
Boa Mistura is an artistic collective with roots in graffiti born at the end of 2001 in Madrid, formed by Javier Serrano, Pablo Ferreiro, Pablo Purón and Juan Jaume.
Their work is mainly developed in public space, and they understand it as a tool to transform the city, respond to its stimuli and create links between people.
Their "Crossroads" project, supported by a methodology that integrates the neighbors of communities as an active part of a transformation process through painting, has been taken over a decade to peripheral neighborhoods in Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Chile, Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Spain, Kenya, South Africa, Senegal, Algeria, Spain or Holland.
In 2018, the "Crossroads" methodology received the bronze medal at the UN Habitat + World Habitat World Habitat Awards.
NOEL RAYO
Edition
In 2004 he began his career as a video editor. After that he entered the world of post-production and filming of various projects.
His projects include the documentary Silence Tears of the Midwife, the series La Reina del Pueblo, the film Tadeo Jones 2 and a variety of commercials.
FELIPE VARA DE REY
(Madrid, Spain. 1981)
Screenplay.
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As a political science graduate, Felipe Vara de Rey has always been interested in stories that deal with social structures, power dynamics and collective action.
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He began working in film in Spain in 2008. Three years later he moved to the U.S., where he has continued his career between New York and Los Angeles alongside directors such as Spike Lee.
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She is a member of IATSE-Local600 and the Spanish Association of Directors of Photography (AEC).
LEIVA
(Madrid, Spain. 1980)
Original music.
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Since he began his career he has established himself as an indispensable author for the Spanish rock scene.
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With 2 gold albums, one platinum, two double platinum and one triple platinum, Leiva has taken his music to stages all over Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Uruguay.
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As a producer, he worked with Martin Terefe on Abel Pintos' album 11, winning the Gardel de Oro award for Best Production.
He is also in charge of the production and most of the musical composition of "Lo niego todo", Joaquín Sabina's last studio album to date.
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In the world of cinema, Leiva has composed the original soundtrack for "Todo lo que tú quieras", by Achero Mañas, "Temporal", by José Luis López González, "Sintiéndolo mucho", by Fernando León de Aranoa and "La Llamada", by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, for which he was nominated for the Gaudí Awards and for whose main theme he received the Goya Award for Best Original Song.
GARY REUBEN MORRIS
(Cape Town, South Africa)
Aditional music.
Gary Reuben Morris is from and lives in Cape Town. He releases music under various aliases as well as his own name.
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