Ivan Gonzalez

The documentary “Kafana (Basta ya!)” (2016), directed by Juan Antonio Moreno Amador and Silvia Venegas, will be screened within the San Sebastian Festival space dedicated to the International Sahara Film Festival (FISAHARA). The screening will be on Friday, September 29 at 7:00 p.m. in Tabakalera – International Center of Contemporary Culture, in the space Kutxa Kultur Plaza.

The documentary, produced by Making DOC and medicusmundi Catalunya, will also participate in the next few months at the Bogotá Film Festival (Colombia) and at the Globale Documentary Film Festival (Uruguay).

The short film “Words of Caramel” (2016), directed by Juan Antonio Moreno, will be seen for the first time in China at the Jinzhen International Short Film Festival. The festival is held from October 1 to 8 in the old city of Hancheng and will be attended by the director.

“Words of Caramelo” has received this summer the UNICEF Award for the best work that promotes children’s rights and the Signis Prize at the International Divercine Festival (Uruguay), the Audience Award at the River Film Festival (Italy), the Prize for best short film at the Human Rights International Film Festival of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and the Best Documentary Short Film Award at the Skepto Film Festival (Italy).

The films “Words of Caramel” and “Boxing for Freedom” will be screened in the cycle “The voice of the voiceless” organized by the Madrid NGO Network in Casa Encendida (Madrid). The objective of the cycle is to become aware of the problems that globally affect all societies, such as gender inequalities and the lack of means to meet the special needs of people with disabilities.

“Boxing for Freedom” will be screened on May 17 and “Words of Caramel” on May 24. Both projections will be at 7:00 p.m. and they are free until full capacity is reached. If you also want to show these films, you just have to write to juanantonio@makingdoc.com

“Words of Caramel” participates this month at the Festival Cine DOC (Georgia), the Censurados Film Festival (Peru – Guatemala – Mexico – USA), the Sordo Film Festival (Argentina) and the Melilla Film Week ( Spain). In addition, he has traveled in recent months to the Globe International Silent Film Festival (USA), the International Children’s Film Festival (India), the Pakistan International Film Festival (Pakistan), the International Children and Youth Film Festival BUFF (Sweden), the International Children’s Film Festival (Bangladesh), ClujShort International Short Film (Romania) and the International Exhibition OFTALMICA (Mexico).

In addition, the company ARRI has included “Words of Caramel” in its Show Reel 2018 as an example of the best images captured by its cameras. Here you can see the ARRI Show Reel.

Premiere of a new documentary short film, “Our Life as Refugee Children in Europe”, produced by J.A. Moreno Amador and with the support of the ICAA, the Community of Madrid and the SGAE Foundation.

“Our Life as Refugee Children in Europe” is a brave testimony told in first person by children and young people of different nationalities who live in a situation of permanent waiting in Greece and in Sweden. They are stories of a generation that has been forced to abandon their homes and their childhood to find a safe place to live and be able to rebuild their lives in peace. It is the story of those who are but also of those who never arrived.

The film is especially aimed at children and young people. Her director points out that “the objective of the documentary is to find a meeting place in these troubled times to listen, know and understand the refugee minors who have arrived in Europe, they are the most vulnerable and our attitude towards them will mark their future and ours. As the poet Gloria Fuertes wrote: The homeland is not a flag or a weapon, the homeland is a child who looks at us “.