Nine Asturian filmmakers reflect aloud, alone in a hotel room, on the existence, the main characteristics, and the current situation of the cinema made in Asturias.
After more than a decade working in England, the filmmaker Elisa Cepedal returns to Cuencas to shoot a film about the end of the two centuries of history of coal mining: around her other remains of her land's past are dying.
Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country and later in Cinema from The London Film School. His work La playa (2010) has been shown at international festivals, including BAFICI in Buenos Aires, Raindance and The London Spanish Film Festival in London, Guadalajara Film Festival in Mexico and Spanish Cinema Now in New York. In 2010, she was awarded the First Prize for New Directors of the Principality of Asturias at the Gijón International Film Festival. His latest work, Ay pena (2011), has been selected in the Official Section of said festival in 2011, at the Valencia Film Festival, Cinemajove, as well as at the prestigious New Directors/New Films organized by MoMA and the Film Society. of the Lincoln Center in New York. Both works have been nominated for Best Short Film and Best Cinematography at the 2011 and 2012 Fuji Film Awards in the UK. He combines his directing work with editing. He lives and works in London.
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