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Visions du Réel 2021: Profiles of 9 Works in Progress
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In its biggest single showcase, Visions du Réel staged a three-hour showcase on Saturday where directors and producers delivered online presentations of nine doc features in post. Some will undoubtedly hit major festivals in the months to come. Following, bare bones profiles of the nine WIP titles:
“About Everything There Is to Know,” dir: Sofía Velázquez (Peru)
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Produced by Carolina Denegri (Cultural Mercado Central)
A group of filmmakers arrive in Santiago de Chuco, a remote village perched high in the Peruvian Andes which was the birthplace of Cesar Vallejo, the most revolutionary of Latin American poets. Their casting for a play, inspired by Vallejo characters, provides the doc feature’s storyline. It also allows Velazquez to depict the village inhabitants and a mix of
A KEIGHLEY youngster is among 90 girls who took part in a pioneering project exploring their transition through childhood. Made across six years, Being Inbetween features a striking series of portraits taken by award-winning Saltaire photographer Carolyn Mendelsohn. Through photography and interviews, she focused on their hopes, fears and aspirations during the potentially-defining period of their lives. Now the most extensive exhibition of the portraits to date is at Bradford’s Impressions Gallery. Although the venue is currently closed due to lockdown, the display is online. And the gallery’s youth collective, New Focus, has met three of the girls in Being Inbetween to make a short film – called Girl Power – sharing their powerful stories.
WEARING a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan INFLUENCER, 11-year-old Ruby declares that her ambition is to “help others be more self confident about themselves”. Becca, 11, affirms that one day she will ride a rollercoaster in her wheelchair. Kiara, 12, wants an end to racism because “I’ve experienced it so I know what it’s like and I don’t want anyone else to feel the way I did.” These are some of the girls featured in a striking series of portraits exploring the transition between childhood and young adulthood. Made over six years, Being Inbetween highlights girls aged 10-12 in portraits taken by award-winning Saltaire photographer Carolyn Mendelsohn.
The power of stories and moving images
The four short films produced as part of the Women Make Film project are well worth seeing. They grapple with the ghosts that haunt Iraq: the horrors of IS rule, outdated gender roles and the aftermath of dictatorship. Christopher Resch spoke to the filmmakers
A taxi driver glances disparagingly in the rear-view mirror at the boy and his mother in the back seat. The boy s naïve questions not only reveal what has happened, but are also incredibly painful. Mama, why do people say that papa is with IS? Mama, why did the principal throw us out of the school? Mama, are we going to go to school again tomorrow? – No.