VENTANAS(OPENED WINDOWS)

a documentary film byFABIO BOBBIO, JUAN MATEO PIERA

RUBÉN ROCHA, MARTÍN MOLINERO CANTERAproduced by

WALTER TIEPELMANNOBSERVATORIO DE CINE SCP

ARGENTINA/SPAIN - DVCam - 39ʼ

www.docventanas.compress@docventanas.com

TECNICAL SPECIFICATIONSORIGINAL TITLE

Ventanas

OTHER TITLES

Opened Windows (english)Des Fenêtres (french)

Finestre (italian)

GENRE

Documentary

COUNTRY

ArgentinaSpain

RUNTIME

39 min

COLOR

Color

ORIGINAL FORMAT

DVCam

PROYECTION FORMAT

Betacam SP - DVCam

SOUND

Stereo

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VENTANASSYNOPSIS

A window is an opening, an opportunity to see and be seen. It entails to look around, to leave aside individuality and to

be conscious that others are around you. “Right now I´m walking with a fellow who has a different way of walking , who

has a different way of moving, but in the end, we are both succeeding to walk together. .” Under these words, Paula rules

the bonaerense theatre company “El Andador”, a group that gets people with different disabilities together.

CREWDIRECTORS

Fabio Bobbio - Juan Mateo PieraMartín Molinero Cantera - Rubén Rocha

ORIGINAL IDEA

Juan Mateo Piera

WRITER Fabio Bobbio - Juan Mateo Piera

EDITING Fabio Bobbio

SOUND - CINEMATOGRAPHY

Fabio Bobbio - Juan Mateo PieraMartín Molinero Cantera - Rubén Rocha

SOUND ASSISTANT

Ana Ugarte Usón

SOUND MIX

Philippe Faujas

PRODUCER Walter Tiepelmann

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Mario Durrieu

PRODUCED BY

Observatorio de Cine SCP

PRESS & COMUNICATION

Pringles36films

CASTPaula Rubinsztein, Stella Maris Albin, Ernesto Bernabó,

Alejandro Brich, Estela Briner, Agustina Buschi,Sebastián Castro Severino, Claudio Fernández,

Mariano Galarza, Andrés Hurlimann, Laura Jordán, Gabriela Mendía, Oscar Alberto Orellano, Carlos Pastorino, Horacio Pizzulli, Marcelo Roldán, Hugo Daniel Salvatierra,

Javier Ruíz, Cecilia Stigliamo, Damián Rodriguez, Marcela Ego

Grupo de Teatro Integrado "El Andador"

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VENTANAS

THE DIRECTORS

FABIO BOBBIO (Torino, Italy, 1980 - works and lives in Barcelona) Studied Audiovi-sual Communication and multimedia at Universidad de Ferrara where he graduates with a thesis about independent Cinema production and distribution. In 2003 he starts working with Officina Film Pruducers (Milan) with whom he mantains activity today. In 2007 joins the Curso Superior de Documental Social y Creativo - Proyecto dos Continentes, at Observatorio de Cine from Buenos Aires and a year later beco-mes part of the teachers team of this cinema school at Barcelona, teaching docu-mentary cut and edition. Working mainly as camera man and editor he had join diferent projects that obtained international relevance through festivals around the world, such as Crisalidi y Ragazzi Soli (Mirko Locatelli), Does passion lives here? (Alberto Micheli), Postal desde Buenos Aires and Juego Limpio (Ricardo Íscar). As a director made ll Colpo, shortfilm (co-directed with Mirko Locatelli, Officina Film Milano 2005) and the documentary shortfilm Buscandote en Buenos Aires (Catalyst Film Barcelona 2007). ww.fabiobobbio.com

JUAN MATEO PIERA (Zaragoza, Spain,1981) He studied Audiovisual Communica-tion at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and Documentary Film at the Observatory of Cinema in Buenos Aires (Argentina). In 2003, supported by the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation, adapted the movie Reservoir Dogs in a theatrical version. In 2004, he worked for the TVE (Spanish Public Television) and in 2006, for EFE Television. He has been working as a camera in several ethnological documentaries all around Spain for the Pyrene Company PV., and in 2008, he has been filming in the International Exposition of Zaragoza for the Mediapro Company.He also worked in different short films projects such as I Love You (2004), directed by Alex Guimaraes, or Living in Cemetery (2007), directed by Jaime Bartolome. In 2007 he directed his first documentary short film, Water (2007), produced by Pringles36Films and filmed in Buenos Aires. www.juanmateopiera.info

MARTÍN MOLINERO CANTERA (Vitoria, Spain, 1982) He finished his studies in Cinema and TV Direction at the ESCIVI school (Cinema and Video School) in Andoáin (San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa) in 2006. His first step into the cinema´s world was in 2004 as the art director (together with Erika Jara) in the short film Juicio de Dios, whose director was Héctor Rodríguez. In 2005, he participated as the director assistant of Egoi Suso Rius in the short film La Jungla de Asfalto. Together with him, he directed his first movie, Grisallas (2006), that was shown in the Navarra Short Films section of the Pamplona Cinema Festival. He completed his studies in Docu-mentary Cinema at the Observatorio de Cine, Buenos Aires.

RUBÉN ROCHA (Madrid, Spain, 1981) Graduated in 2006 in film direction by the Madrid Film Institute- NIC .Among his works are Greyhound racing (2003), Behind (2004, co-directed with Sergio Canalda), The Strange (2005 - screenplay and direc-tion - selected by several national festivals). The days pass (2007 - screenplay and direction) has been his last work of fiction. He has worked in various sectors of films and television, lavished in writing and in the management teams and production of many short films. Ventanas (2007) is its first foray into the documentary.

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PRODUCTION COMPANY

OBSERVATORIO DE CINE SCP School of Documentary Cinema and Production Company.Barcelona (Spain) / Buenos Aires (Argentina)www.observatoriodecine.com The Observatorio de Cine it´s a source of cinematografic projects at the documentary area and the cinema of author. Born as a cinema school in 2001, offering the first espe-cialization of documentary cinema of author in Spain, with the years it has being converted in an institution with the aim of promoting films and projects, from the deve-lopment of the initial idea until the distribution at international festivals. With the two production companies, founded in Barcelona and in Buenos Aires, the Observatorio de cine has realized the production of various important directors but above all the dificult role of discovering new emerging talents. The hight quality level of the films and the clear vocation for the search of new documentary languages and forms has permited at the Obseratorio de cine to be recognized widely at international festivals. A few years ago, it has started DOCS - Observations of the real, the first magazine of documentary critics published in the spanish language distributed in Spain and Southern America.

MARIO DURRIEU y WALTER TIEPELMANN school directors - producers

Selected Filmography (in spanish):

CENTRO

Director: Sebastan Martinez (Largometraje Documental de Creación - En producción) - con apoyo de INCAA.

GALERIAS

Director: Hernan Kohurian (Largometraje Documental de Creación - En producción) - Fundación Telefonica.

PRIVADO

Director: Walter Tiepelmann (Largometraje Documental de Creacion - En producción)

Fondos otorgados por el INCAA, co- produccion con WELTFILM de Berlin, seleccionada para el Taller de

Desarrollo de Proyectos de Casa de America y Fundacion Carolina (Espana).

LA SOLEDAD

Director: Ricardo Iscar (Largometraje Documental de Creacion - En producción)

CAJA CERRADA

Director: Martín Sola (60 min, MiniDV, Color, 2008)

Coproducida con 996 Films y Cine Ojo (Buenos Aires)

Ganador de la Mencion Especial del Jurado en la categoria Documental de Creacion al Documenta Madrid

2008 (España), Ganador del premio “Centinela” al Mejor Documental al Festival de Cine Argentino de Tandil

(Argentina) 2008, Bafici 2008 (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Vision de Reel (Nyon, Suiza), DokFest de Munich

(Alemania), Puntadoc 2008 (Uruguay), Sunny Side of the Doc (la Rochelle, Francia) Professional screening,

Torino Film Festival 2008 (Italia).

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TINTA DE HUMO

Director: Carlos Hernandez (52 min, MiniDV, Color, 2007)

L'Alternativa, Barcelona, 2007

VOCES DEL OLVIDO

Directores: Clara Sanz, Carlo Corinaldesi (70 min, MiniDV, Color, 2007)

Cine y Derechos Humanos de Bolivia, Sucre (2007), XXIV Festival de Cine de Bogota, Colombia (2007),

Tercer Festival de Cine y Video de los Derechos Humanos, Bolivia (2007), X Festival Internacional de Cine

de Derechos Humanos, Argentina (2007), 8a Muestra Documentales y Fotografias de America Latina,

Albacete (2008), V encuentro hispanoamericano de cine y video documental independiente, Mexico (2008).

TIERRA BLANDA

Directores: Gaspar Garros, Jose Rodriguez (20 min, MiniDV, Color, 2006)

Festival Cine y Medi Ambient de Catalunya (2006).

ROSAL

Directora: Eva Vilamala (5 min, MiniDV, Color, 2005)

Premio del publico en el Barcelona Visual Sound (2005), Bianco Film Festival Perugia, Italia (2006), Escuelas

de Cine de St. Petersburg (2006), 5a Mostra Sonora i Visual en el Convent de Sant Agusti, Barcelona (2006),

“DIBA - Festival Cine Digital Barcelona” (2006), “VAD”, Girona (2006).

PALOMATOWN

Directora: Rosa Rydahl (9 min, MiniDV, Color, 2004)

Documenta Madrid 2005 (Competencia Internacional), Barcelona Visual Sound (2005).

OJOS NEGROS

Director: Massimiliano Vana (29 min, DvCam, Color, 2005)

Festival Escuelas de cine de Alicante, Premio del publico en el “Mostrari” (2006), Mercat Audiovisuali de

Catalunya, Premio MAC (2006), International Documentary Film Academic, Amsterdam "Docs for sale"

(2005), L’Alternativa, Barcelona (2006), “Doc’s” de Barcelona TV (2006).

ENFRENTE

Director: Anouk Nitsche (5 min, MiniDv, Color, 2005)

Barcelona Visual Sound, Barcelona (2005), Escuelas de Cine de St. Petersburg (2006), “Songe d’un nuit

DV”, Paris (2006), L’Alternativa, Barcelona (2006).

ENCANTO

Directora: Julia De Simone (17 min, MiniDV, Color, 2007)

Documenta Madrid (2008, Sección Nacional), XI Vide Video (2008, Premio del Mejor Documental), Camera

Mundo, Rotterdam (2008), Femina, Rio de Janeiro (2008), Mostra de Cine, Ouro Preto (2008), Festival

Audiovisual del Mercosur (2008).

BRINCA COMIGO

Directores: Rosa Ryndhal, Ana Sapucaia, Sophie Kohler (21 min, MiniDV, Color, 2004)

Cine de America Latina de Albacete (2005), Escuelas de Cine de St Petersburg (2006), Muestra de documen-

tales de Bogota (2006).

ROMIS CALIS

Directora: Carla Alonso (28 min, MiniDv, Color, 2004)

Cine y Medio Ambiente de Girona (2004), Curtmetratges de Manlleu (2004), Mes Mas Corto, Festival de

Caceres (2004), Secuencia Cero de Vigo (2004), “Doc’s” de Barcelona TV (2005).

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INTERNATIONAL SALES

OBSERVATORIO DE CINE SCPC/ Sicilia 265, 08025 - Barcelona

Catalunya - Spain

www.observatoriodecine.com

gestion@observatoriodecine.comtel. (+34) 934460668fax (+34) 934570926

PRESS

PRINGLES 36 FILMSC/ Pradilla 16, 50007 - Zaragoza

Spain

www.docventanas.com

docventanas@yahoo.estel. (+34) 693286864tel. (+34) 666118751

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