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The ecstatic experience is, for us, at the very heart of cinema: a profound and far-reaching emotion stemming from imagination, art, and engaging with others. It is that moment when a work discloses the unseen and connects the viewer to something greater, transformative, and mutually shared.
The ecstatic experience is, for us, at the very heart of cinema: a profound and far-reaching emotion stemming from imagination, art, and engaging with others. It is that moment when a work discloses the unseen and connects the viewer to something greater, transformative, and mutually shared.
We are committed to fostering their development and supporting them in creating authentic works that unveil new layers of reality and imagination related to the local area, its people and culture.
We believe in a cinema arising from the poetic precept of the imagined casting light on the experienced. We do not film facts; we film experiences. Every story is a transforming journey, a revealing encounter.
Liliana Díaz Castillo
Founder and Producer
Director, screenwriter, producer, and creator of innovative learning and production experiences. For the last twelve years she has fostered the work of more than 400 international creators, a work acknowledged with the Werner Herzog Foundation Award.
Her journey started in 2013 alongside Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, a master from whom she learned a practical working methodology. Together, they boosted creative experiences in Colombia (2014), Barcelona (2015) and Cuba (2016).
Next to the great filmmaker Lucrecia Martel, she also designed a unique collective creation experience in Barcelona (2019).
In 2017, she started her work with Werner Herzog, a collaboration that extends to the present and that has taken the experiences to the next level, a direct conversation with territories and communities. Hence the unique processes in Cuba, (2017), in the Peruvian Amazonia (2018), in Lanzarote (2021) and in La Palma Island in (2024).
Marc Vila Bosch
Production Director
Producer and cultural manager from Barcelona with a wide range of experience in setting up creative writing and filmmaking workshops.
He has produced workshops with Werner Herzog in Lanzarote and La Palma and was a member of the team for the workshop with Lucrecia Martel.
Paulina Martinez
Executive Producer
An Argentinian audiovisual producer and screenwriter based in Spain, specializing in executive production, fieldwork, and coordination of feature-length documentary and fiction film development.
She participated as an executive producer in the La Palma program alongside Werner Herzog, hence promoting the making of 25 short films with a following international distribution.
Héctor Ulloque Franco
Head of Production
A Paris-based producer with experience in international co-productions with Latin America. He has explored various areas of cinema as a director, cameraman, editor, executive producer, curator, and programmer, as well as a creator of projects mixing education and audiovisual. Since the beginning, he has accompanied the program in the field production design.
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